Crazy time

I know I have been pretty lame at this blog thing recently. I have just been super busy with work and school recently. I will be back to blogging as soon as I get out of school and get started on this adventure of going to college.

My Current Projects

So I havent been much into blogging recently just because I have been busy with school and because spring break was last week. So I figured I could give you guys a quick post on a list of projects I am currently working on (both in school and out).

1. Boy friend tag- This one is gonna take me a bit of time because I still have to talk the boyfriend into wanting to do it. 

2.Student led units- I have to teach a unit to my Econ class. Someone hurt me now.

3. Crocheting a blanket!- So this one started awhile ago, but I still am not too far. I need to get it done.

So that is my short list of things I am currently working on. I start college on June 11 so I will hopefully have more to write about at that point. Oh and 46 days of highschool. Lets get a move on with this.

Rainy days and Graduation

(taken from google images)

"Rain, Rain, go away, come again another day." 

This is exactly how I am feeling right now. It was raining yesterday but not too bad, and when I woke up at 4 this morning (to hail and thunder and lightening, oh my!) I was not a happy camper. I knew that it was supposed to storm today, but I was hoping I could at least make it through lunch before it happened, but no. I started on my way to school at 7:40 this morning and already by 7:45 905 of the road I have to take to school was flooded. Now as a back ground to my town it was built on a swamp, so it is almost always got standing water somewhere, but for whatever reason in the recent two years it has started to flood even more. After a flood day last year, yes a flood day, they started to replace all the sewer systems in hopes of keeping it from happening again. Well I am thinking that it didnt help considering in 6 hours of raining it was already flooded and we have to get through all of today and all of tomorrow before this rain ever stops.

Now to make the day even more fun, I have to leave in a down pour to go to my cosmetology school, which doesnt have a parking lot so we have to park at apartments that are a block or two away. Not gonna be a happy camper today for that, and I am half tempted to just take the risk of getting a ticket and park on the street infront of the school. Ain't no way mama is gonna get ehr hair messed up no more. (That was my attempt at being getto, I know it was bad.)

And I have to drive to work tonight and drive through two towns that flood really bad. So I am comptemplating telling them I cant drive through the great lakes and that I wont be able to make it there. Oh and bonus, my school parking lot is flat with no drains so it is pretty much flooded too, and I park forever away from the door. 

Enough about how much I am hating the rain today and how it totally messed up my hair. It is a knotted mess because it got wet and I didnt have a brush to brush it out with when I got into the school. And it is starting to curl up. *sigh*

(taken from google images)

I GRADUATE IN 57 DAYS!!!!!!!!!!

I dont think anyone actually understands how excited I really am about this. No more high school, no more stupid people, no more working dumb hours, and no more home work!!!! Well at least until I start college June 11, but thats not the point. The point being that I am almost done with high school!

And next week is spring break, I mean I am staying in town but still its spring break people!

Okay that is all for today. 

~Kaylan

PS. sorry for my lack of posts. I had a 27 page econ paper due and I had to spend a lot of time working on that. Good news is its done and I never have to do it again. 

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