Thinspiration Thursdays: Volume 2

It's Thursday already!?  I feel like I was just going over my adoration and love for Endomondo and yet here we are again.

I had really high hopes for my weigh in on Saturday and somehow I only posted a -1.6 on the scale.  It was a huge setback, that was until I went to Kohls and bought the Nike Flex in hot orange/pink/red whatever color you want to call them and I fell madly in love!  These shoes are so amazing I can't get enough of them.  I got home on Saturday, ran in my new shoes, and went about my day, Sunday morning when I woke up, I instinctively weighed myself on my scale, and I was 4 lbs lighter than I was on my scale before my weigh in the day prior.  I don't know what the heck happened but now I am expecting to put up a big number Saturday and if I don't I will probably cry.

This weeks thinspiration thursday post is dedicated to Pinterest.  I cannot believe how ubelievably obsessed I have become with pinterest.  I am constantly on the app on my phone and when I get on the PC at home I instantly head to Pinterest.  It has really been a huge asset to me.  I have found some great workouts, and even better recipes on Pinterest.  Granted, there are quite a few recipes that could ruin a diet, but in general, I have been exposed to things I'd have never seen before.  I am doing a Kettlebell workout that I found on Pinterest and I really feel myself getting stronger.  It is amazing! 

If you are not on Pinterest yet, get out from under the rock you've been hiding under and check it out!  It has so many fabulous tools to keep you motivated!  Happy Calorie Burning, Friends!  See you next Thursday!

07.25.12

So here's the thing.... I have always loved my hair. Sometimes it was infuriating because it doesn't hold curl and sometimes I hated how fine it was, but in general, it has always been great to me. Then a bout of sickness caused me to lose my hair and I still suffer from alopecia areata and that sucks but again, overall, I have loved my hair. When my hair grew back, it lost some of its redness and was much more blah, and at 27 I have quite the amount of gray and I have to ask, what did I do to you, hair, that you have rebelled like so???

I began dying my hair blond and when the roots grow out the gray isn't as noticeable as when my natural color shines through. Naturally, I have always been a red head an I come from a family of red heads and that's just how it is.

Today, after my boss first said my hair "bugged" him, (my side bangs had fallen onto my forehead mid conversation) he proceeded to say "ohhhh that makes so much sense you are a natural red head!" and I asked "what does that mean" to which he sat quietly and responded "well the feistiness".

Seriously? What do you all think of stereo types? Am I really feisty because of my hair color? Is someone flighty because they are blond? That's ludicrous! All day I've just laughed at the blasphemy of the conversation.

If I am the stereotype of a red head, then I'm glad and maybe it's time I let my natural color fly because passionate and feisty are two things I am proud to be!

Red heads: unite!

Thinspiration Thursdays: Volume 1

If you head on over to Nicole's Blog you will find that we have both dedicated Thursday to our favorite topic: Thinspiration!  The term is annoying and cutesy like everything in pop culture and culture in general for that matter; but it's a very important topic. 

The picture to the left was taken of me in May when I was Maid of Honor in one of my closest friends weddings.  It was such an incredibly fun night and day and the dresses we wore were so forgiving that for one night, I almost forgot that I was the overweight bridesmaid.  This was not the first time, but hopefully, it will be the last time that I am the overweight bridesmaid.  There is nothing worse than standing next to a beautiful bride and a size 4 bridesmaid and looking like THAT <---. 

In April I joined Weight Watchers.  I honestly have never loved anything as much as I love my meetings.  I feel such a sense of support and comraderie there and every week I am posting numbers.  I weigh in on Saturdays; last saturday was my 11th weigh in and I have lost 27.8 lbs.  I am completely aiming to have my 90 day weigh in this Saturday be a total of 31 lbs.  I am averaging 10 lbs a month which to me; is perfect.   Weight Watchers is not my only assistance though, and this week, I am dedicating my Thinspiration Thursday to my favorite Mobile App.

Endomondo

Endomondo is a sports community based on FREE real time gps tracking of running, cycling, etc.  I use my app every single morning and push myself to walk/run no less than 3 miles.  I am completely in love with this app.  It has a pep talk at every mile and updates you your stats.  You are also able to add friends to your Endomondo and I have a few friends who can see when I am out walking and send me pep talks as well as comment on my activities.  It is a great community and an awesome way to motivate one another!  Here is an example of my screens from this morning and just a very small example of what this app can do!

 

I have got a long, long way to go until I reach my fitness and weight loss goals, and a lot of thinspiration thursdays to come.  I would love to hear from other folks on this journey and share some ideas back and forth so please feel free to comment or email me!  

7.17.12

So the thing is.... I am not the smartest person in the world. I am often times guilty of starting a sentence with a preposition and I have used the wrong form of your/you're in my day.  The difference is that I am aware of my short comings and I do my best to avoid them.  I also know what a preposition is which is far more than I can say for....well, most anybody these days. 

One of my absolutely biggest pet peeves in the entire world is when people use the word "seen".  It reminds me of bingo night in the trailer park.  STOP IT.  Please, for the love of God, stop saying "seen".  You did not seen him, you saw him.  It has been a long time since I was in any sort of educational system but if I recall correctly; seen should only be used in conjunction with have or has. It is so infuriating to me to receive emails from the higher ups in my company that say "Yes, I seen that." Do they not proofread? Or do they really not realize that they are using the most improper forms of the English language?  Either way it makes me want to die.

Now back to me being a hypocrite....my best friend, (who is a total dick and I love him dearly) always rags on me for saying "These ones".  I am fully aware it is not a proper sentiment and that saying "these" is plenty; but I hear this every where now.  I do my best to never say it because despite our 3000 miles apart I feel like he is stepping on a baby kitten just to spite me every time I say it.  And I care about the kittens! Everyone I work with says "These ones", I was working directly with the manager and Bed, Bath & Beyond looking for something and he said "Oh, these ones?" and now it is driving me crazy because it is so widely accepted as a proper statement.

I'm off on a tangent now and I am making no sense so let me get to the moral of this post.  If you are going to post something online; a job opening; something for sale, or anything on craigslist and you would like a mature, responsible, intelligent adult to respond....please proofread.

That is all.

Em

7.16.12

So that crazy hooker cousin of mine, Nicole, moved her blog back to blogger and gave me the incentive to also return. I had my own domain and blog for quite awhile but I of course sucked at updating it, partly because it's a lot of work, but mostly because I am completely and totally boring.

Since my last go round with blogger I have moved to California, taken a promotion at work, and all but gone completely insane in the process.  I thought it would be interesting to document my transfer and my new life, but it turned out to be far more boring than one would expect uprooting their life and moving 3000 miles away would be.  Not to mention, when you're filtering what you write about your work life on the internet, and your entire life is work, you basically become one giant blog of nothing. 

If you are awesome, which odds are, you are not, then you know exactly where my new blog title comes from.  For those of you a little less awesome; let me explain.  In one of my favorite (bad) movies, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Captain Kirk says "Galloping around the cosmos is a game for the young, Doctor".  It is a perfect sentiment for all things me right now.  So. There you have it. 

So you can feel free to read, or not read the new posts that will be full of inane babble, first world problems and complaints, and a lot of one sided and blinded arguments for everything going on in the world right now.

And while you're at it, check out Nicole's new blog too.  Because we're awesome. But somehow we're both still single... #thingsthatdontmakesense

Au Revoir,

Em