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. :)

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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

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