SUMMER SLIMDOWN COMING SOON!!!

I know I have been gone forever but I am still around. Lol. I am doing a new weight loss challenge starting on Monday that will last 12 weeks. All the details will be available tonight. Just wanted to get an idea of who all wanted to join.

Wow it has been a really LONG TIME!!!

So I am finally back and with a new attitude! I had destroyed everything I worked toward while I was gone. I didn't just fall off the wagon, I fell off and rolled down the hill and floated down the river. LOL. I went back up to 215 and could've been heavier but I was too terrified to weigh myself. I was drinking a lot and eating lots of fried bar food. My acid reflux was a constant bother because of the things I was eating. Finally, I said enough is enough when my best friend asked me to go to the beach with her this summer. I knew I couldn't go to the beach lookin the way I do because I wouldn't enjoy myself. So I hired a personal trainer 2 weeks ago and got started on the new me!!!! I'm very excited, I've already lost 4.5lbs. My trainer is also telling me what to eat, which I hate by the way. Lol. But its easier for me to change the way I eat if someone says eat this, this, and this instead of leaving me to figure it out. Lol.

I will start posting what I eat soon. I am back and ready to kick some FAT'S BUTT!!!!

I'm alive but not quite back yet.

I wanted to let everyone know I am still alive but I am not officially back on track. I am sick with some kinda infection may it be strep or just something else. I'm too broke to go to the doctor and I don't have insurance so I'm just dealing with it for now with antibiotics and vitamins. 

I am moving Oct. 15, I finally am moving out on my own and will have a place to call my own. Hopefully I am better by then because I want to be able to enjoy my first days in my new apartment. Once I get over this illness I will definitely be back on track and working out again.

My challenge I did ended up being an epic fail and I let all of you down so I want to apologize for that. 

I did just get back from Arizona and I had a blast and now I've been sick ever since I got back, LOVELY!

I am exhausted and run down so I am going to bed now but I will begin blogging again very soon. Thanks to all those who sent me messages and who were concerned as to my where abouts. I appreciate it. 

Good night all.

I am fine everyone!

I have been working a lot and Im not at home, I've been staying with a friend and I sleep work and eat everyday and on the weekends I sleep ALOT. I'm just so exhausted I haven't had time to post lately. I am no longer doin my challenge but I will be in AZ Sept 17-20, fat or a lil skinnier whichever it may be who knows. Lol. I am alive but don't know when I'm gonna start blogging again. I have been reading the blogs tho and everyone is doing a great job.

Weighing in today instead of tomorrow

Ok I am weighing in today instead of tomorrow because I am about to work a 12 hr shift and won't get off til 4am and then go back at 12pm tomorrow. It's been a crazy week. Will update everyone soon but I need to head to work. My weight this morning/afternoon was 206.5 which is a 6.5 lb loss from the last time I weighed. Yay! Ok off to work I go. Love yall and keep up the good work.

I really am still here everybody!!!!!

I am so sorry for letting everyone down for the past month. I have been super busy with this new job. I am now on a permanent position so the transition has been crazy with training and everything and I also have family in town so I'm eating like crazy. I will weigh in friday once I've had a chance to get settled with my schedule for work. I'll be working a lot of over time this coming week so I won't be online much at all! The challenge is definitely still on ladies and again I am sorry for deserting everyone. 

My current weight is 213 so I'm back to the beginning again. I need to continue this challenge because I am going to Arizona Sept 17-20 for my best friends birthday and I don't wanna look like a fat cow in pictures. LOL.

Well ladies I will try to comment this weekend but like I said I have family in town and have a really busy weekend planned out. Hope everyone has a lovely weekend. Good luck next week ladies, I know its getting close to the end.

IM BACK!

Ok sorry to all my challengers, I have been slackin these past 2 weeks. I have been really tired from startin this new job that I usually come home and pass out and don't get up til its time for work the next day. I haven't been eating right at all. I only have 30 mins for lunch and 15 of that 30 consists of going and gettin my car from the parking lot and parkin on site at work since we can't park there until after 5. I am usually stuck goin to a fast food place close to work or just eatin crackers. I am going to try and catch up on the blogs and weigh ins and we will get back on track since the challenge is half way over already. Wow, time flies!

I'm still around

I didn't weigh on Friday, just didn't feel like it. I went out Friday night to a friends house party. All I can say is WOW! I don't think I'll be partying like that for awhile. I ended up having bruises on the better part of the left side of my body and I feel like my back is about to go out again, so I'm kinda babying my back for the rest of the weekend before I start working next week. I did record everyone's weight who posted their weights on Friday or Saturday. I'll try and get around to commenting everyone tomorrow or Monday. Thanks everybody.

No Scale Pic Today! Boo :( Weigh In!

No scale pic today! I weighed 208 this morning so that is a loss of 1.5, I'm likin the numbers goin down!!!

No real news to report so I just wanted to post my weight and comment you guys!

Good news- All but 3 people have done their posts this morning but Tammy said she wouldn't be weighing in this week so I know about her. Lol.

Bad news- 6 Challengers have dropped out already and its only been 4 weeks. How sad!

Exciting News Be on the Look Out!!!!

Everyone be on the look out for Tammy's newest blog she has some exciting news for everyone and I'm sure she has been dancing around her living room since she found out!!!!

Thank you everyone for all the Congratulations on the new job! I really do appreciate it. I've very thankful this opportunity came along. Next plan is to save for a car and place to live! I feel very good now and this challenge is going to be a great journey for me. I need to get down 9 lbs in the next 2 weeks or so. I want to be into the 180's when this challenge wraps up in 2 months. Better get my butt in gear if I'm going to get there by the end of the challenge.

Awesome Monday!!!

So I went to my interview this morning and....... I GOT IT!!! I start June 28. It is a temporary job for now but if I do a good job then I could get hired on by one of their permanent projects. I'm in a good mood today to say the least.

On another note, some of you were confused by the mention of me saying you could email me your weight loss for the week. To clear that up I meant that if you're NOT going to be able to post on Friday just send me an email or comment to let me know. Also, if you would rather email me your weight loss instead of doing a post then you can do that. I did not mean you had to email, comment and do your post. Sorry for the confusion.

This is going to be a good week.

2010 Challengers ATTENTION!!!

I really hate to be a bitch but if you don't weigh in for 2 consecutive weeks then I'm going to assume you aren't serious and just take you off the list for the challenge. ( UNLESS YOU HAVE TOLD ME IN ADVANCE THAT YOU WON'T BE WEIGHING IN, THAT'S DIFFERENT!) I still have 9 people who haven't weighed in this week. One person is coming close to being cut from the challenge, you know who you are. I did this challenge to motivate me and everyone else and if you're not weighing in or doing weekly posts or contacting me by email to let me know your progress then I don't think you're serious and that makes me sad. I try my hardest to get around to all 22 people and leave comments every week. All of you know about everything going on in my life because I blog openly just as Tammy does so, there is no reason for you to not at least shoot me an email to tell me your weight on Fridays. So I hope everyone has a great weekend and everyone who hasn't weighed in need to! Keep up the good work.

Weigh In Week 3 - 6/11

So it's been 3 weeks since we started this challenge and its taken me awhile to get on track but DAMNIT I DID IT! Lol. So I can't say that I have eaten the best this week but I will have you know that my body did not like some of the food I ate and it let me know it real quick. I felt as though my body was saying, " This is not suppose to be in here, ABORT ABORT ABORT!" Everytime I would eat anything that was not 'Healthy' so to speak.

It was a very painful process I must say but I'm glad my stomach is shrinking and won't allow me to eat as much as I use to. I did manage to go work out this week. I went to the gym Tuesday I believe it was, we only stayed for 25 minutes and all I did was walk on the tredmill but I was sweatin like a pig. I made sure to get up into cardio level the first 15 mins and then I went down to fat burning level for the rest of the time. I made sure to switch between 10 incline and 0 incline every 5 minutes which got me sweatin even more. Lol. So I'm sure even one workout helped in my loss this week.

I have some news about my job that I will share at the end of this but I will say I am very very pissed with my boss right now and I am seeking other opportunities. I haven't left yet!

Ok, onto the weigh in!

So my weight this morning which I am VERY shocked at is 209.5. That is down 2.5 from last week. YAY ME!!! I am finally going down in the numbers and I am soooo happy!

So I was shocked at this weight because I was very bad yesterday.

I had McDonald's for lunch- 10 pc nugget with BBQ sauce, Large fry, and a Large sweet tea

I had El Nopal for dinner- rice, chicken, shrimp drenched in queso cheese and a sweet tea.

So as you can see I am very surprised I didn't gain from all that sodium, especially those Mickey D's fries, Oh Dear Lord!

Hopefully that means an even bigger loss this week since I'm going to try and flush all that out this week by drinking only water. That is a HUGE problem for me. I just don't feel satisfied by water, it just leaves me feeling thirstier than I was before. I never feel like my thirst has been quenched and it doesn't taste good at all. I'm a sugar addict and I will gladly admit it. When it comes to sweets I'm googley eyed and salavating the entire time. Lol.

Onto my horrible job, if you can call it that. 

My boss has left me no choice but to seek other employment options because she only scheduled me 4 hours last week and I have 8 hours this week. I realize I'm not a part time associate and I am labeled as "on call" but damn dude! 

People tell me I'm lucky to have a job but they don't see that it's not really even a job. I live in Kennesaw and work in Smyrna/Atlanta for those of you who are from GA and know how far that is, its not worth my gas to drive there to work for 4 hours 1 or 2 days a week. Now, if I was working all week for 4 hours that would be different. I don't even bring home $100 a week. That is sad. There is no way that is considered a job, AT ALL!!!! Therefore, I am seeking other opportunities. At first I felt like I'd betray them somehow if just left because I've only been there a month. I worked really hard to even get in the door there. When I went for my initial interview in beginning of March, I was offered a position and was super excited. Well, I called every other day to find out when I was going to start only to find out that my position wasn't open yet that they were waiting for someone to leave before I could start. Well, 5 weeks went by, as I continued to call them every other day, until I found out anything. They decided to offer me another position until mine opened up so I was happy to finally come in and start orientation. Then nobody could tell me when I started working. So basically, I've gotten the run around from Macy's this whole time and don't really know what to do. I have legal issues and have somehow managed to pay my lawyer all but $450 but working 4-8 hours a week isn't gonna get him paid off any sooner and my court date is coming up soon and all the has to be paid before I go to court. 

On a good note, I do have an interview with a Temp Agency on Monday to see if they can help me find a job. I told them I was willing to take any job as long as it wasn't a warehouse job. I am just not made for that kind of work. Lol. 

Well, I look forward to seeing everyone's weight losses throughout the day and everyone have a great weekend and good luck next week as we close out week 4 of the challenge!

Hope everyone enjoys the music on the blog as they read. LOL.

I think I got it together now

I know I've been somewhat absent from Blog-land for the past week or so and I'm sorry. I will try to catch up on everyone's blog and comment. A lot has happened since I started this challenge. I just broke up with my boyfriend. I had been talking wedding and babies with him BUT something just changed that kind of urked me. I'm not sure what exactly it was but a week of no phone calls set it off. So that ya'll don't think I'm insane here's the story.

My (ex) boyfriend lives in Macon which is 96 miles one way from me and we go like 2 months at a time without seeing each other and then we get like 1 freakin day to spend together when we do see each other. Both of us are on cars which can only be driven around town and NOT long distances. That presents the problem of not seeing each other very often. Basically, the phone is all we have. He had been talking about joining the Air Force and getting married and me going with him. It sounds good but in reality I think it scared the crap out of me after I took it all in. Also, if we hadn't gotten married I don't know if I could wait 3 yrs for him to MAYBE come home without him being sent somewhere else. He really ticked me off when he went 5 days without talkin to me. To some of you I'm sure you're like wtf 5 days is nothing but when the phone is all you have it becomes a big deal. So my beef was that when I questioned him about it he acted like it wasn't a big deal. To me when someone calls it means they are thinking about you and want to talk to you. Well, not calling me even though he's outta town with family, to me says he doesn't care enough or isn't thinking about me while he's gone. And being too busy isn't an excuse you can always send a short text to let someone know you're thinking of them. So that was my breaking point and I do love him to death but I just can't take the distance.

So all that, once I got it off my chest made me feel free and motivated to start working out again. I just felt a huge relief after I took care of that. So I just downloaded 35 new songs to add to my already long workout playlist on my iPod. I'm ready to go! This Friday WILL show a LOSS!

I'm still pissed about my job but hopefully something better will come along soon.

I leave you with a quote I found on a friends facebook page.

I've learned that things change, people change, and it doesn't mean you forget the past or try to cover
it up; it simply means that you move on and treasure the memories. Letting go doesn't mean giving up, it means accepting that some things weren't meant to be.

Weigh In... 6/4

Sorry for the late post. Got a lot on my mind right now but I couldn't get the scale pic but I am the same at 212.5 which I am just fine with after my horrible week of eating or lack there of. I was either eating too much or not eating at all but whatever. Things are going to be rough this week due to low funds, so I can't really go grocery shopping. But I will make the best of it.


Still waiting for a few of you to weigh in! 

A little appreciation to my Challengers!

So I made a new badge and I am giving it to everyone of my Challenge participants! Yay for surprises! LOL. I know at least a few of us including myself have had a rough couple of weeks or maybe even months. Everyone can add it to their profile if they would like or you can give it to anyone you think needs a little boost. I need a BIG boost! So thanks to everyone who joined the challenge.

DON"T FORGET TO WEIGH TOMORROW!


I took a peek at the scale today and was VERY surprised at what I saw, considering the week I've had and lack of exercise. But next will be better, we can't dwell on things that are beyond our control. So good luck everyone!

Taking Some Personal Time....

..... until Friday's weigh in that is. I more than likely won't post anything or comment until Thursday to remind everyone of Friday's weigh in and then to post my weight and comments on Friday. I have a lot going on right now that I can't talk to anyone about so I'm being eaten alive by it. I can normally talk to my mom but its not the same as venting to my best friends which one is in Arizona and the other in Louisianna so you can see my dilemma. And my boyfriend is in Macon and I have no car or money so he can't physically be here for me either, so its very hard for me to deal with things through JUST talking about them. I need some sort of physical support here and I don't have that right now. I just need this time to destress and I will try my best to stay on track this week. I didn't expect anything like this to affect me so much but it has and it seems everytime I take on a challenge something comes up to interfere. Just letting everyone know whats up. See ya'll next week. Good luck this week.

Kandice

For Your Added Enjoyment!

I have added a playlist in my sidebar so everytime you visit my page you will get to jam to some of my favorite songs I like to workout too! So enjoy and if there's any songs you would like me to add just let me know!

Day 5- Weigh In ( How did I pull that one off?)

My camera on my phone is being retarded so I'm not able to post my scale picture right now but when I get back from my job interview I will see what's going on.

To my surprise I weighed 212.5 this morning for a loss of .5 which after this whole week craving crap and eating everything I craved seems amazing to me. LOL.

This weekend shouldn't be too bad until we have the cookout at Tammy's (dun dun dun). I love to eat and my whole life that's how my family celebrated everything was with food. It just comes naturally to eat when we're happy, sad, angry, upset, frustrated. 

I will take the loss and keep on trekin!

Next week will definitely be better and the scale will tell and hopefully I take more pictures this week because I seem to forget to take them a lot because I'm not use to doing it all the time but will try harder this week to keep myself accountable and I don't forget my calories.

Off to my job interview, wish me luck and go over to Tammy's blog @ From Fat to Fab and wish her luck also, she was signing up with a Temp Agency today. 

I'll talk to everyone later and just a reminder:

DON'T FORGET TO POST YOUR WEIGH IN TODAY!!!

Day 4- REMINDER!

Just wanted to remind everyone that tomorrow is the first weigh in of the challenge! I'm not feeling to confident here goin into the first weigh in, I've had a horrible week. I am bloated, craving crap, not really sweet stuff either just stuff like Moe's and I've been craving a big fat greasy cheeseburger and have not gotten one yet. LOL. I did make brownies last night and had 2. I figure I should just eat it and get it out the way. Though some good news is I weighed exactly the same this morning with no food as I did when I got home after eating all day. Which either means I am exactly the same or I lost a little. So I'm hoping for the best in the morning and I also have an interview for a 2nd job tomorrow afternoon so I'm hoping that goes well because I definitely need extra money because Macy's is kinda bullshittin me around right now. Ok well see everybody tomorrow at weigh in!

Kandice