Let's get it started!

Getting out of debt. 35 months to do it.. a lot of money to go.

Oh yeah!

Today was my first offical weigh in on Weight Watchers this time around. I lost 6.4 pounds!!! Freaking awesome! I'll make a video later today. :)

xoxo

Here go.... AGAIN!

I'm back on the wagon. John and I joined Weight Watchers on Monday.. we are doing well on it. :) We eat not only healthier food, but also better tasting food when we are on it. I'm hoping to lose 25 pounds in 3 months and to work out 12 hours this month. The exercise ticker is in minutes because it is easier for me to input how long I worked out when I do it in minutes rather than fractional hours.

Anyway, I hope that you will follow along with me. Check out my new weight loss channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/ColieGetsFit

:)

Requests.

Soo..... I need ideas for what to do on my channels. What kind of videos do you want to see? They can be anything. Just post a comment below, tweet me, send me a message on YouTube, or comment on a video.

So please please please let me know what you are interested in. :)

♥pFm♥

Major Acne.

I know this is something that is very common in teens, as well as adults. The worst four letter word... ACNE! It just makes us cringe. I'm sure we have all been there. Growing up I never got much acne. A little on my back and chest from being in softball but it wasn't that bad. I rarely got any on my face, I'd maybe have one pimple at a time - during finals, MAYBE two. And they were few and far between. I considered myself lucky - I truly was. I thought I was destined to be one of those people with almost always flawless skin.

Boy was I wrong!

I started really breaking out when I got to be about 20, still it wasn't that bad. I had to start washing my face regularly and it would clear right up, and then I'd get lazy about it and it would sometimes resurface. I thought that was as bad as it was going to get.

Nope!

I am now 23 and am experiencing the worst acne I have ever had. About 6 months ago I started ordering ProActiv. I used it religiously for about 2 weeks and then yet again, got lazy. My face was so broken out - it was truly embarrasing. It still it. I started using ProActiv again last week and a funny thing has happened...


My face looks worse!!!

I don't know if it is from residual stress from the week before or what, but I thought that by using my ProActiv, it was supposed to clear up - like it always had before. I'm hoping that it is just the stress... this is NOT ok. I can cover the color of it with concealer but I can't cover the bumps.

Tomorrow I'm going on a little bit of a shopping trip - not much, just some drugstore stuff that I've had my eye on as well as going to Sephora with my mom. I'm going to get the Sephora facial brush. It is kind of like a toothbrush for your face. I really want the Clarisonic but it is anywhere between $149 and $225. I don't have that kind of money to spend, and if I did - it wouldn't go toward that (unless I REALLY need it)! There is also a "dupe" for it made by Pretika. This one is only $50 from Bed Bath & Beyond and you can almost always find 10% off or $10 coupons for one single item in their mail fliers. I was really excited to try this, but then I read some not so good reviews. I still want to try it but I think I'm going to give the manual facial brush from Sephora a whirl. It is only $5 so I figure if it doesn't work, no big deal - I'm only out $5. If it doesn't work, I might try the Pretika one but I'm not sure on that.

A facial brush (be it electric or manual) is supposed to deep cleanse the face and remove more bacteria, dirt, and oil than just using your hands. I am very much in need of clear skin - when my skin is clear, I just feel more confident and I feel better about myself. Isn't that what we are all striving for anyway?

Below are some pictures from last Friday (when I started ProActiv again) and others from tonight. You can see that my face is in severe trouble. Crap!


Starting Face










After One Week

OPI Nail Polishes

Hey everyone! So I got some new nail polishes. These are from OPI - the Alice in Wonderland collection and some from the new Hong Kong collection. :)



Left to Right:
Pearl of Wisdom*
Mad As A Hatter**
Meet Me On The Star Ferry*
Dim Sim Plum*
Off With Her Red!**
Thanks So Muchness**
Jade Is The New Black*
Suzi Says Feng Shui*
Absolutely Alice**

*Hong Kong Collection
**Alice in Wonderland Collection

Stop bitching.

Okay, in my previous post I just said that I want to have a baby and I need to get in shape to have any sort of hope of having that happen. Well, today is that day. I guess tomorrow would be more like it. Anyway, January 14, 2010 I'm starting to eat better and workout. Now I know 6 hours of exercise in the next 2 weeks isn't much but we are moving so I need to concentrate on packing - and hey, it's more than I'm doing now.

After my ortho appointment tomorrow (today) morning, I'm going to get Jamba Juice and then it's off to the gym. Then packing for forever. Right now, I need to take a shower and then go to bed.

xoxo... Please help me stay on track!! Together, we can do this. :)

A total freak.

For those of you who don't know, I want a baby. More than anything else in this entire world - I want a baby. However, I have PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome). What this means is that my ovaries don't release eggs, instead the sack fills with the liquid and then stays there. It is horrible. I feel like a freak. I feel like nothing I do will ever change the way I am. It will never go away. PCOS doesn't have a cure, although it is treatable and manageable. When I lose weight, the symptoms will hopeful diminish but they will probably never fully go away. I can only hope that I can get my act together and lose the weight for the sake of my sanity. I really just feel like an alien on certain days - especially today. Just knowing that I "look" funny on the inside is horrible. I'm not normal. We live in a world where people want to be unique - not me. I just want to be a normal woman & that isn't the case right now.

So I'm thinking I should stop bitching, stop complaining, and start working out and eating right so I can have a baby with the man that I love and adore. So we can be a family. But right now, that seems like an impossible task and an unrealistic dream.

Update

Hey guys! So this past week was really good. I lost 2.4 pounds. =] My points for Weight Watchers went down by 2 due to the amount of weight I have lost thus far, which I am actually okay with.. it means I am doing what I am supposed to do.

I made my exercise goal for April and actually surpassed the 10 hours. I did about 12 or 13, I'm not entirely sure. We switched gyms today. We were going to Body Xchange and just signed up at InShape. It is more money but it a much nicer facility. =]

I know there is no way I can lose 8.4 pounds in less than 2 days for when we go to Houston, and that being said I am hoping that I can at least lose 3.4 pounds by then which will be 20 pounds lost. I figure that is pretty decent and I will still keep my weight tracker at 25 since that was my inital goal and I still really want to reach that.

I am really nervous about going to Texas, it is the land of BBQ and meat for crying out loud! But John and I, and his mom, have decided to take a jump rope, resistance band, and go on a lot of walks. Plus there will be 5 little kids there for we will probably be running after them a lot.

Oh yeah, at the new gym, I also signed up for 4 trainer sessions. I will let you know how that goes. I promise, a new weigh-in video will go up on Monday. We were at Disneyland on Saturday and then running around town once we got back and we had a bunch of errands to run today and by the time I was home and able to record it, it wouldn't turn on because the battery was dead. So, I charged it but by the time it was done, it was too late. So I will record it tomorrow and put it for you.

Thanks again for all of your support, you guys are the best! Be sure to check my YouTube for beauty related videos as well as Weight Loss and Cooking tutorials. http://www.youtube.com/paintedFACEmakeup

Follow me on Twitter too! http://twitter.com/paintdFACEmakup

♥pFm♥

This week..

I'm hoping that this week I will get a lot of the clutter out of my house. I have so much stuff and nowhere to put anything so it is either going to be sold (yard sale), given to good will or thrown out!!! Today I have a bunch of stuff I need to do since I was slacking the past few weeks what with being sick and not being home.. and well, just being lazy.

To Do List:
5 loads of laundry
Clean bathrooms
Prep Food
Clean Living Room
Vacuum
Dust
Clean up Bedroom
Reorganize and clean out Kitchen
Sweep and Mop Kitchen and Bathrooms
Put Christmas Boxes in Garage
Put away Camping Stuff
Make a good dent on the office


I have so much stuff to do that I don't want to but I really do need to this done. Once it is done I won't have it hanging over my head anymore and I will feel so much better. I can't wait until the garage and office are clean and I can have my makeup in there instead of in my bedroom. It is a daunting task and I feel overwhelmed but if I take it just a little bit at a time, hopefully I will be able to get through it all.

I have a couple of food prep videos that need to be edited and I need to do a weigh in video. PS - it's bad! =[

Okay.. gotta get this stuff done!

♥pFm♥

Crushed, but it's all my fault.

I just got on the scale... and I've gained 4 pounds. :(

I'm going to the gym tonight, first time in 2 1/2 weeks. I'm going to the store to get fruit and veggies and going to eat only that for the next few days until we leave for our camping trip. I feel like I have completely let myself and you guys down. But hey, I can't beat myself up too much because at least I am recognizing what is going on and I can help myself get back into gear. As long as I get back on the wagon, that is all that anyone can ask of me, and all I can ask of myself.

I made a week 2 & 3 weigh in video last night and tried to upload it but something happened with YouTube and it said there was an error so I am about to retry it. It will probably take several hours for it to upload so be patient! :)

Thanks for all of your support.

♥pFm♥

Week 3 on Weight Watchers.

So.... I recorded a video about week 2 and was going to post it but something is going on with my editing software and/or webcam and it would skip parts while just playing it back to see what needed to be edited. It was really frustrating and this isn't the first time it has happened! Well, I am buying my camcorder today and should get it in on Tuesday, so I will make a week 2 and 3 video on Tuesday when I get it.

Week 3 sucked. I didn't do anything I really supposed to. I was sick and I just didn't care. I couldn't go to the gym cuz I didn't feel good and then I didn't want to eat the stuff I should. I didn't go hog wild but at the time time, I could have done a lot better. I was really nervous when I got on the scale today, I just knew I was going to gain weight and was just praying that I stayed out of the 270s. Well I stayed out of the 270s WOOO HOO! But I also actually lost weight. I lost 1.2 pounds. I know it isn't a lot but I did a really crappy job this last week so I was happy. I am going to put my butt in high gear though so that next week will be a lot better =] Also, I lost 3.875 inches in the last 2 weeks!!!

Total weight lost: 9 pounds
Total inches lost: 9.875

The inches lost at from all over my body. =]

Thanks for all your support! You guys help me feel accountable and want to do a lot better. I promise, week 4 will be better =]

♥pFm♥

Second week on Weight Watchers/Update

Okay... I know, I know! I have been completly MIA for the past few weeks, here and on YouTube.

I've been really into the Twilight Series books, and I finished Breaking Dawn last night. It is the best one by far. I had heard it was the best but as I was reading it (in the beginning) I didn't understand what was so great about it, then it finally clicked. Right now I'm reading Midnight Sun. It is the 5th book I suppose you could say. It is Twilight from Edward's veiwpoint. It is really good. It isn't finished, someone had leaked it on the internet and Stephenie Meyer had decided that she it would be put on hold indefinately. I'm really dissapointed about that because it is an amazing book. I love the insight into the inner workings of Edward's mind. I really hope that she will someday finish it and then maybe even write the other three books from the series in his point of view as well. Especially New Moon - that would be interesting!! Anyway, you can it at www.stepheniemeyer.com It is under the Midnight Sun section and you can download it to PDF. You can't print it, unless you can hack the encryption, but you can save it to your computer and read it.

Enough about Twilight - although I could talk about it forever.

My computer had been gone for nearly 2 weeks, back to Dell, to fix some issues I was having with the keyboard, touchpad, power supply, and to fix a USB port. Well, they only fixed the USB port and the power supply. So John is calling them and telling them they need to send someone to fix this stuff - the main reason no videos have been up in the past few weeks. I was on John's computer while mine was gone but his doesn't have the same software that mine has so I couldn't make any videos. I promise though, I will try.

I'm currently getting over being sick. EWW!! I want and need to go to the gym so bad
but the last few nights especially were horrible. Today I'm feeling better so I might go, let's pray I will be able to. =]

Anyway, my second week on Weight Watchers but okay. I kind of fell off the wagon after coming back from Disneyland but I'm trying to get back on it! I'm trying to drink my water and I have no real reason to not do so other than I forget. So, I had gained 4+ pounds after Disneyland and was really devestated. I knew I would probably gain some weight but I didn't think it would be that much since in 2.5 days, we walked over 25 miles, but I did. Well on Saturday I weighed myself and I lost those 4+ pounds and an additional 1.6! I'm very pleased. 1.6 is a great weight loss period, but to lose that (Saturday to Saturday) when I had gained weight back felt really good. I knew I would lose some of the 4 pounds but didn't think I would lose all of it or even lose more than that. So total, I am down 7.8 pounds in 2 weeks - pretty good if I do say so myself!

I haven't measured myself but I think John and I have decided that we will weigh ourselves every Saturday and measure every other Saturday since it can be a bit time consuming.

Anyway, that is what is going on for now. Hopefully this week will be better. I'm not sure I'll get in my hours at the gym this month (the 12 in the ticker) but I want to get as close to that as possible.

Thanks for all your support!

♥pFm♥

First week of Weight Watchers.

So my first week on Weight Watchers was pretty successful!

I lost:
6.2 pounds
6 inches
2 off chest
2.5 off waist
.25 off calf
1.25 off hips

I was seriously in shock!


But... then we went to Disneyland. I tried to be good but it was a bit hard. So when I got back on Tuesday, I weighed myself and I had gained some weight, even with all the walking. I figured it would happen but it's okay. I'm going to the gym tonight and tomorrow and trying to burn off some serious calories and serious pounds. As long as I haven't gained back the 6.2 pounds, I will feel okay about it.

We ate all the food that we had bought and it made the transition so much easier. I kind of fell off the wagon a bit due to Disneyland but I'm getting back on it.

We are going again March 28-30 for our anniversary and I'm a little nervous. But I figure that now that I know what happened, I can try harder to prevent it. I will eat more salad, drink more water, and try to be better in general with the whole thing.

Sorry this is a late, tomorrow is my week 2 weigh in, but we were so busy this weekend and I didn't feel like getting on the computer - what with reading the Twilight Series.

I'm already on Eclipse (the 3rd book) and I started last Friday night. Also, I have watched the movie twice, last night to be exact. I just couldn't wait for John anymore. So yeah, that's what's been going on. I will post my new results tomorrow when I find out. It might be Sunday though, not sure.

Thanks for all your support everyone!

♥ pFm ♥

Gym in the morning

I went to the gym this morning! I did this all over body cross trainer thingy and man it kicked my butt! I wanted to quit so many times but I did a full 20 minutes and didn't give up. =] I am soooo proud of myself.

Anyway, I'm going to try to stay up today (I didn't go to sleep tonight at all) but I'm not sure if I can make it.

♥pFm♥

GRRR. It's 1:45 and I want food.

Okay I know its late and I shouldn't be eating because it is bad for me to eat at such a late hour - in my defense, I sleep until noonish usually because I stay up so late. It is a really bad cycle that I need to quit. Anyway.. I am addicted to Pasta Roni. The Angel Hair with Parmesan Cheese to be exact. I could eat the 3 times a day, every day for the rest of my life and be in heaven. Well, it is like a million points! So, I have some activity points that I can "cash in" to have extra indulgences but I'm sure I want to. I was having such a hard time tonight with this that I went into the bedroom (I'm in the living room) and woke John up to help me deal with this. So I decided that getting on the scale might deter me. It did but not because of why I thought it would have. I'm so confused!

A few posts ago I wrote about our awesome new scale. It takes your weight, body fat percent, muscle mass percent, water percent, and bone mineral percent. Talk about cool. So I get on and it says I have lost 2.4 pounds. Woo hoo!!! Like BIG time. It has only been since Saturday at like midnight (Friday night/Saturday morning). So, I was really happy but when I wrote down my numbers and compared them, I got super confused and I'm hoping you guys can help me.

So, I lost 2.4 pounds. My fat % stayed EXACTLY the same. My water % went down 1.4. My muscle % went up 1.4. And my bone mineral % stayed the same. I thought the weight loss might be due to water weight since the percentage went down and I have been sweating during my workouts. But if that is the case then how come I lost weight when my fat stayed the same and my muscle increased? #1- How did my fat stay the same?! Oh well gotta work harder at the gym I suppose. #2- Which weighs more? Water or muscle? #3- How in the world does my scale actually work?!

So yeah, I'm totally confused. I think I'm just going to watch one more episdoe of Friends, drink some water, and then go to sleep... maybe I'll take a bubble bath with Vanilla Cupcake - that would be nice.

Anyway, thanks for reading this and if you have any ideas, please let me know. =]

-pFm

PS: My keyboard is kind of messed up. I have to really concentrate on the "U" to get it to go, so if there is one missing where there should be one, that's the reason. I tried to get them all, but I'm not sure. =]

Vanilla Hair Part 2

Okay.. so I bought the Organix shampoo. $6.99 per 13 oz bottle at Target. A little pricy but definately cheaper than salon products. I have only used it once so I can't review it yet, but I definately will!

-pFm

PS: The smell is amazing!

I love Sunny!

Okay, so one of my friends, Sunny, is on blogger and she is aweseome. I couldn't figure out for the life of me how to get my ticker/trackers in the side bar. I had seen that she had one on her blog and I asked her how she did it. She told me (super easy too!) and now I have it. I adore her! So Sunny, you are currently my favorite! =]

-pFm

Friends...

Seriously, it might just be the best show that has ever been on television. I cannot tell you how much I adore Friends. I have every single episode on my iPod and I watch them on the plane, in the airport, sometimes even when I can't sleep at night haha. I have the box set and I record and watch nearly every episode that comes on TV. Talk about a tad of an obsession.

I don't know what it is but I truly love it. I remember being a sophomore in high school and my World History teacher watched it and it was the 9th season and it was supposed to be the last one, but they went on to do one more. Anyway, I remember him talking about how he was bummed that it was the last season (no one know they would do 10 seasons at that point). I thought it was really funny because I never really got it, also, I had never really watched it before. Sure I had caught a few episodes here and there and what-not but I had never really knew what went on with Ross and Rachel and that whole dynamic.

Anyway, I know it's kind of random but I'm just watching the one where Monica makes 12 lasagnas for her aunt and has to get rid of them because they weren't vegetarian.. anyway, I think it is the best show that ever lived and if you haven't seen it, you definately should. They air all the time on TBS. SO CHECK IT OUT!

-pFm

PS. I love action shows: NCIS, The Unit, Bones, etc. but I love to laugh. I told John tonight that I think I'm more of a comedy girl than an action girl... it is definitely true!

Food and stuff..

So today John and I went to Target and the grocery store - no I didn't go to the gym like I wanted but I didn't have the time once John got home, but I am for sure going tomorrow!

So at Target we bought a food scale and a real scale. I had only intended on buying a cheapy scale but no, I saw them and fell in love with one. It tells you your body fat percent, water percent, muscle mass, and bone mineral mass. Talk about sweet! It stores all that information plus your weight for up to 4 people. I wasn't totally shocked when I saw the body fat percent but it still sucked. Oh well, can't bitch and complain about it - I have to DO something about it!

Then we went to the grocery store and we bought a mass amount of fruits and vegetables. We got: Bananas, oranges, apples, grapes, cantaloupe, pineapple, green onion (yummy in a salad), mushrooms, red bell pepper, yellow bell pepper, carrots, and cucumber. We already had lettuce and spinach at home for the base of a salad so we didn't need to pick that up. We also got light dressing, almonds for some crunch, Raisin Bran cereal, chicken breast tenders, turkey bacon (so good!), yogurt, 2 smartones, and some lean pockets.

After we got home I started prepping everything - I cut up the fruits and vegetables and cooked some chicken so that it is all ready to go to either throw into a salad or be able to snacked on. I didn't want to give myself any excuses to not do this and follow through. I am seriously proud of myself. I have some grilled chicken and some boiled chicken, and I also hard boiled some eggs - such a great snack and awesome in a salad.

So yeah, that is what we did today. We had BBQ for dinner since we are going on Weight Watchers for sure on Sunday so I am definately going to go to the gym tomorrow and hit the elliptical - I need to burn some major calories. It was a nice "one last" indulgence and worth the added time at the gym but it definately will not be a regular occurance.

-pFm