Get fit: Update 1

I have been trying this weight loss thing for about a month know and at first I was happy to see the numbers going down. Then I started to binge eat one weekend and I have been upset about my weight since then seeing as I gained about 4 lbs from that.

So starting yesterday I started my hard core working out. I made a post about how I was going to do the 30 day crunch challenge. I did start doing it and I have to tell you my ab area kills me right about now. I did add a few other things to my work out as well. So I will add those so maybe you guys can try getting fit with me as well.

Now let me tell you with my job and not getting home until around 10:30 at night during the week, actually being motivated to exercise is really hard. Especially because my job requires standing and walking around the whole shift. So I am sore every day. I just have to keep thinking to myself that this is worth it and that in the end I will be happy with myself that I actually didnt give up. 

I am learning that the hardest thing about working out is just mentally making yourself realize that everything will be better if you just dont give up. 

If you are joining me in my quest to get fit please let me know in the comments.

~Kaylan

Society is Ugly

This is another one of those quotes that I am learning to be true. So much today people think that you are only pretty if you are skinny. That is completely not true. I know many girls who are bigger that are probably prettier than any skinny girl I will ever meet. It is all about your views on life. Yes being overly huge is disgusting, but being a size 18 or 20 isnt all that bad.

I have said in another blog post how much I weighed, but I never said what size I was. I am a size 16, so I am not overly huge. But people will tell me I am fat and ugly. There is a point where that starts to hurt a person. I no longer look at myself the same. I know I am pretty, but from everything that has ever been said about me I look at pictures and think that I am the ugliest person in the room. People really do not realize the effect their words have on someone.

It is a constant battle for those of us that are called names to try to stay positive. When we finally have someone that is being honest and telling us we are pretty and it is hard to trust and accept that. I know plenty of girls that say they are ugly just to use it to get complements. That is completely wrong in my opinion, but hey no one cares what I have to say about it. I have started when someone says it to me looking at them and being like “yeah you are right your butt is getting kind of big.” It may be really mean, but they disserve it if they are going to try to say they are fat when they are a size 2 and they are standing around me. I don’t do well with people who fish for complements.

Rant over. I will see you all next time.

~Kaylan

30 Day Crunch Challenge

I recently (last night) decided that I was going todo the 30 day crunch challenge. Now since last night was actually the 11th day of the challenge to catch myself up I just did 360 crunches last night. That was probably not my brightest idea but hey that is perfectly okay. Here is what the 30 crunch challenge consists of:

Today starts day 12 so later today I will be doing 65 crunches. I also have to point out that I did more crunches yesterday than I have to do the whole last day, but hey thats okay. 

I am looking for more of the 30 day challenges so if you have any that you have tried or find that you think I should try let me know below in the comments.

~Kaylan

My weight loss story: The start

“If you want to accomplish anything in life you cant just sit back and hope it will happen, you’ve got to make it happen.” Chuck Norris

Recently I started trying to lose weight and I wont lie it is a constant struggle not to eat as much as I used to, and not to eat as many bad things as I used to. Every day I continue to actually do it but not without help and support from my boyfriend. Every day he tells me how beautiful I am. You have to have someone around that can always help you feel good about yourself.

I am not going to go into detail about all the things I do to lose weight because it works for me and it will not work for everyone.  One of the things is cutting out soda and if I am going to drink it only drinking one can or cup before I switch back to drinking water. Working helps too because I am always moving around and using calories.

I am going to go into detail about how much I am wanting to lose though, not so that people feel sorry for me or for them to make fun of me. But so that I can show that it is possible if you just have your mind set to it.

I started out at 224 pounds, or something right around there.  It was while I was at the doctor that I realized that I needed to lose weight. I am only 5’ 6” so standing there looking at how much my weight had gotten to I felt bad about myself. Now granted I don’t look like I weigh that much so when I tell people that they don’t believe me.

The week after I went to the doctor I actually started physically thinking about and starting to lose weight. So far I have lost around 8-10 lbs; that changes a few times due to my family going out and myself splurging on whatever I feel like eating that day.  As of right now when I checked this morning I am down to 215 lbs.

The biggest problem I was having when I first started this was that I eat out 90% of the time. I am in two schools so when I leave high school I go straight through a drive thru and get something and eat it while driving to my cosmetology school. Then I tend to leave cosmetology and head straight to work most days. So I either stop and get dinner from a fast food restaurant or eat fries sometime during the day while I am at work.

Another problem I had is that since I work at Dairy Queen we have high in sugar artic rush flavoring. Let me tell you Strawberry Kiwi flavoring in Sierra Mist is probably the best thing I have ever had to drink in my life. But that combines two things that I am trying to cut out.

People ask me all the time if I am doing it because my boyfriend says I need to; the answer to that is no. Another thing that I am asked a lot is if I am loosing weight to please other people; the answer to that is also no. You should never be losing weight for anyone else, you always need to be doing it for yourself.

“It takes 4 weeks for YOU to see your body changing. It takes 8 weeks for your FRIENDS AND FAMILY. It takes 12 weeks for THE REST OF THE WORLD. Keep going.”

This is something that I have had to live by recently because sometimes I get discouraged because other people don’t notice how hard I am trying to be healthier and look better. You will slowly start to realize sometimes that even if people do notice they don’t want to tell you. People seem to be pre programed to want to put people down, and telling them they look like they are losing weight does not help them in their efforts to put you down.

Now some of you probably want to know why I am choosing to do this whole weight loss thing and to tell everyone about it; so I guess I will finally explain that.

I am doing this for myself; to make myself feel better. I am doing this for my boyfriend in some shape but only because he deserves to have a healthy women on his arm; not because he tells me I need to lose weight. I am doing it because I want to be my best me for the last summer I am going to have before I go off to school. And finally, I am doing it so that when I go off to school I wont get so discouraged when I am in the gym or at the pool.

I hope this helps those of you that are trying to lose weight to see that it is possible. Even with the constant struggle to eat healthy you can lose weight.

~Kaylan