Soooo much going on

Hey Everybody, I won't even waste either of our time but commenting on how long it's been since I posted, making excuses, or making promises about "keeping up" on my posts. I just want to fill you all on whats been going on in my life because it's been kind of crazy. First of all not really most important but just the first thing to come to mind is that my old car was finally actually on it's last let/tire whatever so I finally got rid of it and traded it in for my "new baby" Petey. Petey is a 2009 Pt.Cruiser. He has made my life so much better (except for giving me car payments again.... but that's OK.) Next is that I was recently (re-diagnosed) with Type 2 Diabetes. When I was 12 years old and everything else in my life was changing I was told that I was pre-diabetic and had insulin resistance there is still confusion on whether that was the same thing or two different things but I guess at this point it doesn't really matter. The doctors at that point made it very clear that it was reversible, with diet, exercise, and weight loss. I currently have very bitter feelings about that not necessarily being true due to the fact that I have changed my life (even though technically I had fallen off the wagon)I mean I've lost 40 pounds and NOT gained it back and yet here is that damned diabetes again. Oh and let me "reassure" you it is no longer PRE-diabetes, or insulin resistance, but FULL FLEDGED super high sugar levels diabetes that is "supposedly" no longer reversible. I am according to my doctor on diabetic pills for the rest of my life. Also if I'm "lucky" I won't have to go on insulin. If you haven't been able to pick up on my anger.... I'm pretty damn disgusted by this whole ordeal. I'm waiting on my first appointment to meet with a diabetic educator but while so far I'm pleased with the office that does this, I am pretty, um whats the word? Skeptical about this because from my experience in the past there's not much luck with balancing diabetic dieting and weightloss dieting. A Diabetic diet is sooooo precise. I don't know I've also been being told alot lately.... by my best friend and family who btw I don't think my best friend has EVER read this blog... if I'm wrong let me know, that I've been extremely negative lately, which I'm noticing this post is. BUt I'm soo sorry forgive me. I'm going a little crazy at the moment. ANYWHO enough... "playing the victim" or being a "negative nelly" both things I've been called through this ordeal. On the bright side I have thrown myself completely back into my gym routine actually feeling pretty great about it. And attempting to get my diet back under control which by the way is again my biggest obsticall. (sp?) Ok enough blabbing anyways starbucks is literally about to kick me out... last thing. I've really been throwing myself back into my faith too. I'm not a leader with my churches high school ministry which I love and am really feeling like it's going to be a great thing in my life. Also just praying daily and trying to make everything in my life about and for GOD. ok so thats whats been going on with me... BYE

HAPPY!!!!!!!

Hey Everybody,

I know it's been like FOREVER. But thats ok cause SOOO much has changed for me :) I'm literally starting to cry right now because I'm so inspired. Who you may ask has inspired me? MYSELF!!! I have been through alot... But I started this journey two long years ago, but I have NEVER QUIT. I've been challenged in ways I never thought I would be in the last two weeks. And I'm surprising myself. Let me explain whats been going on in my life the last couple of months.

Feb 1st was my birthday... the BIG 25. It totally freaked me out. Mostly because when I was younger I had all these BIG plans and I felt like by the time I reached 25 I should have made it, I would be married and looking towards having children. Well, I am pretty far from there considering I've never been on a date let alone in a relationship, in love, engaged, married, or considering having children. It's nuts. However I can't dwell on that because I am moving up in life. I'm making alot of my dreams come true. And I'm sure having a relationship won't be far off, once I get to that point.

One dream that I am experiencing and am very happy with right now is that for Christmas I got hired as a Nanny. :D I am taking care of four beautiful little girls that live 3 miles away from my house. I for the first time in my life, LOVE my job. And I sooooo enjoy saying that. Now don't get me wrong, no job is perfect but I just can't imagine complaining about this one after wanting it for so long. This new job has also helped me move forward in my goal to be more financially responsible. Which trust me, is something I've never been very good at.

Lastly is something that has thrown me for a complete loop. For my birthday my parents purchased for me..... GET THIS>>>>>> A PERSONAL TRAINER!!!!!!!!!!!! :D Isn't that amazing? This is another dream I've had since beginning my weightloss journey. I've had such high hopes of having a personal trainer and the things I would learn and the results I would have. Now because of extenuating circumstances (death and sickness) It took about 3 weeks after the intial presentation of my trainer to be able to meet and workout together. Our workouts have been going great. I've learned how to use new machines I never dreamed of using. But in addition to that, I have begun to push myself to new heights. For instance tonight while at the gym I RAN on the tredmill, now just to make sure I'm clear, this is not JOGGING, RUNNING. lol I never thought it possible. If your familiar with speeds on a tredmill, I usually walk at a 3.0-3.2 Last Monday a friend of mine pushed me to jog at 4.2 for???? I don't know how long. half a song, lol. But tonight at the gym, I pushed MYSELF to run at 5.0 for 30 seconds. I was encouraged to do this by watching The Biggest Loser :) of course. You don't have to start running for 15 minutes, start at small increments then work your way up. I mean in the past I've always HATED the tredmill. But it's an amazing workout and I want to challenge myself.

Now part of the reason for emotion and the beginning of this post is because for the last few days I have been having a problem with my current personal trainer. I won't go into detail but to sum it up he has hurt my feelings on more than one occasion and made me feel like crap (which I've been fighting) and this discourages me and the old me would have gave up immediately and said, "I've failed, just like I always do, I can't do this" But as many people in the last couple of weeks and months have pointed out to me, I started this journey, I have not given up, and I can continue. I'm here to say they are right and I WILL continue. This journey is between ME and GOD. Anybody else involved is purely there to HELP. I am the one making this happen and I will not let anybody discourage me or stop me from making my dream come true, I've come to far to let anybody get in my way. I am declaring May 19th my sisters wedding day as my "comming out party" I will present the "new me" to all my family and loved ones. If they haven't already seen, they will then see a new and improved Kelly. A woman who loves herself and is HAPPY. If I can make it through this I can make it through anything.

Now it is waaaaay past MY bedtime and I can guarentee those 4 little girls will not understand me being extremely tired tommorow becuase I had to go workout and write in my blog tonight lol. So to close this post I would like to thank all of you who have been with me on this journey encouraging me and listening to me. This journey is not over, in a way I've only just begun. But lets continue on this journey. Hopefully it won't be another 4 months before we reunite. But if it is I'll be yet again another new woman and that point. GOODNIGHT ALL :)

TOnights ENcouraging SOng......

Free to be me.
Album: My Paper Heart
Artist: Francesca Battistelli



At twenty years of age I'm still looking for a dream
A war's already waged for my destiny
But You've already won the battle
And You've got great plans for me
Though I can’t always see

(Chorus)
‘Cause I got a couple dents in my fender
Got a couple rips in my jeans
Try to fit the pieces together
But perfection is my enemy
On my own I'm so clumsy
But on Your shoulders I can see
I'm free to be me

When I was just a girl I thought I had it figured out
My life would turn out right, and I'd make it here somehow
But things don't always come that easy
And sometimes I would doubt

(Chorus)

And you’re free to be you

Sometimes I believe that I can do anything
Yet other times I think I've got nothing good to bring
But You look at my heart and You tell me
That I've got all You seek
And it’s easy to believe
Even though

I got a couple dents in my fender
Got a couple rips in my jeans
Try to fit the pieces together
But perfection is my enemy
On my own I'm so clumsy
But on Your shoulders I can see
I'm free to be me

Impossible?..... NOT!!!!

Hey Everybody,

So I have this renewed spirit in me... I have yet to test it in the gym but that doesn't even matter because I am so excited about this right now. I do have negative thoughts but I'm trying my hardest to not let those get to me. Not entirely but part of this excited feeling is due to a song I heard for the first time on The Biggest Loser from like two weeks ago that I was yes just "getting around" to seeing tonight. SO the song is called Impossible by Kate Earl and I found it on Youtube and just keep playing it over and over. I feel like it explains so well the things I've been going through on my journey. So here's the lyrics... if I can figure it out I'm going to try to put the video on here but you know me... who knows if it'll work lol.

no matter how hard
no matter how tough
there is no turning back
no way you’ll ever give up on me
no matter how dark
no matter how deep
the challenges may be
you’re gonna find me right here
always right beside you
What ever curve
life may throw
we’re in it together
cause you and i
are building our dream
they say impossible
they say it can’t be done
can’t break us down cause we’re unstoppable
they say too difficult
that it could never work
they think that we’ve been tryin for too long
but i know better
i know that we’re about to show them all
no matter how sick
no matter how tired
frustrated i become
you never let me give into that
no matter who sees
no matter who thinks
that they can put you down
go on and hold your head high honey
circumstances for worse or better
are no excuse to forfeit our dreams
they say impossible
they say it can’t be done
can’t break us down cause we’re unstoppable
they say too difficult
that it could never work
they think that we’ve been tryin for too long
they can say what they want to
anyway it never matters what they think
they’re still blind and we’re still free
i know i know i know...
they say impossible they say it can’t be done can’t break us down cause we’re unstoppable they say too difficult that it could never work they think that we’ve been tryin for too long but i know better but i know we’ll prove them wrong cause i know better i know that we’re about to show them all

Ok the only thing with this song is that when it's said "They say... They can't" for me all of those things are the things I was telling myself. I didn't think it was possible. I believed all of those things about myself and about the things I was trying to do in my life. I don't for sure know when things but man am I glad they did. I just wish I could inspire that change in other people. But for now I'm determined to just be happy with what I've done for myself and to keep it happening.


I finally jumped off the platue (sp?) I've been on for like.... I don't know a REALLY really long time. I was stuck at the 195lbs mark for months... honestly almost a year. I've gotten past that though. I got back to the gym and honestly I thought my workouts sucked lately I didn't feel like I was doing the best I could. But it paid off anyways. I lost 3 pounds. I know I know 3 pounds is nothing compared to the 30-35 I've already lost but I was stuck for so long and honestly that 30-35 lbs added up because of the 2,3,4 pound weight losses. I started this journey at a size 24 or 3X. Just the other day i bought (shouldn't have but did anyway :/) a pair of pants that are a size.... GET THIS... 16!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so excited.


I never thought i could do this but now I've proven that I CAN. Some people even myself sometimes and people that love me that it's taken too long. Well yes maybe it has but I'm just glad it's happening at all and fact is... yes FACT that people who lose their weight slowly have a better chance of keeping it off PERMANENTLY!!!! Thats what I'm going for here a life change... a healthy life for the rest of my life.


I have so much to say but I really need to get to bed and this has been long enough as it is. lol I hope you all enjoyed this post. I'm hoping now that I've gotten all this feeling out I won't be as emotional as I have been the last week. BYE p.s. I love you all for being on this journey with me. THANK YOU!!!!

Tired

Hey Everybody,

I am soooooo tired right now. I just got done with a workout..... and my internet at home hasn't been working very well so I thought I'd write on here before i leave the y. Take advantage of the good internet service they have here. So the whole reason for writing in here this evening is becuase I had a very emotional workout this evening. I'm not sure why. I haven't been emotional lately. So that got me thinking.... Do any of you ever get emotional when you workout? Now I know by asking this question I'm setting myself up for dissapointment because as much as I hope somebody might comment, history has shown that it's a rare occasion that anybody actually does. But hey I'm still throwin it out there. Please answer this question I am genuinely interested. I was also thinking it could just be because of the music I was listening to. I was really hooked on the inspirational ones tonight like, Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror" thats one of my favorite workout songs and Britt Nicole's "Set the world on fire" another favorite song to workout to. These songs just remind me of some of the reasons I am working out and trying to get healthier. I want to make a difference in this world, in the people I know. I want to go on adventures and do things that I've never done because of either the inability to be too physical because of my weight or the insecurity I felt/feel with the way I look because of my weight. I am so proud of how far I've come but when I look at myself in the mirror in my workout clothes I just don't feel that different. Or when I think about going to try on dresses for my sisters wedding. I get nervous cause I know going from a size 22/24 down to a size 16/18 is amazing but thats still a pretty big size for a bridesmaid dress. Those sizes aren't usually just hanging around the bridal shops. I just don't feel like it's good enough yet and I'm getting down to crunch time (lol no pun intended) I had a nightmare about a week ago that I was at the rehearsal dinner and realized I hadn't gotten my dress for the wedding the next day. I freaked out when I woke up all with this need to find a dress NOW! Now I've been kind of freaking out about it wanting to hurry to get a dress but at the same time I want to give myself enough time to lose more weight cause I am losing little bits at a time. I don't know what my last check in weight was on here but last time I checked (after a week of not eating because of an extremely bad tooth infection ;) ) I weighed in at 193. Which is incredibly exciting for me since I started this journey at 220 lbs. Also I was stuck at the 195 mark for sooo long. I'm glad to have finally beaten it. But in the beginning I made my goal date this summer. Well I didn't meet that goal but I am still on my journey :) Oh something exciting happened this week too. Kind of ironic but still cool none the less. I was at McDonalds grabbing some dinner and a girl I went to high school with was working there and told me she had read my blog. I love it when I hear this because I don't always know who reads this. I love love love to hear when people do cause I'm the type of person who gets really discouraged easily and I figure whats the point of writing in here when nobody reads it anyways.

Wow i've been babbling alot and it is waaaaaay past being time to go home.. I still have a half hour drive home. But I feel much better now that I've gotten all this off my mind. Thank you whoever you are reading this. Good night and God Bless

Set the world on fire ;)

Hey there!!!

I'm over apologizing for not writing in here. It may still be true (which it is) B.U.T. I'm sure your sick of hearing it and I'm sick of saying it soooo....

The point of this post (because yes I feel the need to to have a point to every post I right) is that I don't think weightloss has to be the only topic of my discussions on here. What I mean by this is that when my life started to change with my weightloss, it's not the only thing that changed in my life. I feel my relationship with God also changed for the better. I'm going to share the lyrics to one of my current favorite songs with you because I really feel it explains how I feel.



I wanna set the world on fire
Until it's burning bright for You
It's everything that I desire
Can I be the one You use?
I, I am small but
You, You are big enough
I, I am weak but
You, You are strong enough to
Take my dreams
Come and give them wings
Lord with You
There's nothing I cannot do
Nothing I cannot do
I wanna feed the hungry children
And reach across the farthest land
And tell the broken there is healing
And mercy in the Father's hands
I, I am small but
You, You are big enough
I, I am weak but
You, You are strong enough to
Take my dreams
Come and give them wings
Lord with You
There's nothing I cannot do
Take my dreams
Come and give them wings
Lord with You
There's nothing I cannot do
My hands, my feet
My everything
My life, my love
Lord, use me
I wanna set the world on fire
Wanna set the world on fire, yeah
Take my dreams
Come and give them wings
Lord with You
There's nothing I cannot do, no
Take my dreams
Come and give them wings
'Cause Lord with You
There's nothing I can't do
Nothing I can't do
I'm gonna set the world on fire
Set the world on fire

I feel this explains the way I feel right now in my life so well because before I started losing weight I didn't think I could do anything with my life. I thought I would always be fat. And that would always stand in the way of making my dreams come true. And the biggest mistake of all.... I thought I was in charge of my own life and what was to be or was not to be... lol I know that sounds kind of confusing but I hope you understand anyways :) What I'm trying to say is that I realize that I CAN do the things I've always dreamed of but Only with God's HELP. Also that my life and body doesn't belong to me. It belongs to God and everything happens for a reason. And this body he gave me is a gift. My life, My body, My Money, My possesions they're not really mine. They're all Gods He's just letting me borrow them and supposedly I'm supposed to be caring for them. Like I would care for somebody's children, pets, plants, etc. I've been doing a lousy job of taking care of this life and body God has given me to take care of. I'm sorry I'm getting away on a little bit of a tangent here. anyways starbucks is closing and kicking me out... not really but i know how it feels to be closing and i'm sure they want to leave so.... BYE

wow

Hey Everybody,

I didn't realize how long it had been since I wrote in here. Thats crazy.... It's been THREE months. :( I'm sorry. I haven't been keeping you all updated on whats been going on with me. The good news is that just because I haven't been writing in here does NOT mean I haven't been working out. :) You may ask what provoked me to write in here tonight? It's that I took a peek at how many views my blog has gotten in the last three months and in January (the last time I wrote) I had over 200 views but what really caught me off guard is that even though I haven't been writing my blog has been having over 50 views a month. I might as well give people an update on whats going on with me.

First off I haven't been having a whole lot of results but my winter was very rough for a lot of reasons. I'm not going to go into all that right now but, just know I've started over. Something that encourages me is the results I've had in the past. I know now that I CAN lose weight on my own. It's just time to start doing it again. I have been going to the gym but not as much as I know I can and should be. I'm hoping that by starting this relationship back up between me and my blog followers we can all get back on track together.

I don't know about any of you but it helps me A TON to get feedback. So I'm going to start this .... Renewal? with an opening for any of you who read this to ask me any question you want... weightloss journey related or not. Feel free to do so in the comment section below. I would love love love to get a conversation started. Please don't give up on me. I want to thank God for putting this drive back in me. And ask all of you for your help in my journey. Thanks for stickin with me.

Talk to ya soon ;) Kelly

Bdubs.

Hi Everybody,

I don't really have anything to say I just wanted to share with all of you that, as I'm laying here in bed ready to go to sleep (early) because I'm getting up early in the morning to go down to COlumbus with my mom to go wedding shopping and planning with my sis and another bridesmaid, I REALLY REALLY REALLY want to be at a bw3's drinking a huge ass margarita thats probably thousands of calories and devouring a plate full of ooey gooey chicken wings with tons of ranch and at this point I really just wished that I LIVED in Bowling Green or Perrysburg where I could just be there in two minutes.. That said, it's probably a blessing in disguise that I don't live close enough to one. :) :( ?

Anyways thats all.... thanks and goodnight.

SIcky poo

HELLO EVERYBODY!!!!

So..... I have alot to say this evening but unfortunatly I'm feeling very poorly. I had a very bad tooth infection over the weekend which led to me being pretty darn sick this week. I'm very tired and need to get some sleep because no matter how poorly I'm feeling I'm going to Boston in a couple of weeks and need the money so I have to get up and go to work in the morning... SO...


If your a biggest loser fan like me... I had alot of feelings about tonights episode I'm not going to rewrite everything I just put on facebook so if you care what I think about tonights episode go look at my post I put on facebook.

FYI, I went to the gym for the first time in a LONG time this afternoon. I did not go for the zumba class. I just went and did a regular workout after work. IT FELT good. :) My body was really craving some cardio action. I did a half hour on the eliptical goin from a high crossramp to a low and back up to the high again. Then I did a little while on the bike. I don't usually do the bike but I was wanting some more cardio but wasn't feeling very well so wanted something easy. Then I ventured over to do my weights and this is where I plumeted. :( I did one round of my arm weights and I crashed and came home made a semi healthy dinner. My parents had already stuck some stuffed pork chops in the oven and asked me to open a can of veggies to go with them but instead I got some fresh veggies I had recently bought at the grocery store and steamed them up to go with our dinner. :) I felt very proud of myself for doing this. I had really been wanting to make a full fledged healthy dinner of grilled fish and veggies and some new rice pilaf I bought but we didn't have any fish and unfortunatley I didn't have the money to go out and get some therefore being stuck with the stuffed porkchops.


Ok so thats long enough for now... oh wait I forgot to tell you. Since I've been sick the last couple days my throat has been REALLY sore so I've been drinking A TON of HOT TEA!!! In the past I've never been able to find a hot tea I really liked.... UNTIL NOW. I LOVE love loVE GREEN TEA. I work at Bob evans and while working we can have all the hot tea we want so I've drank like 2-3 cups of the stuff the last couple of days then today after my workout I rewarded myself with a trip to starbucks (somewhere I haven't been in a pretty long time) and tried THEIR hot green tea and loved it even more than what we have at BOb Evans. I feel really good about this because not only does it taste good and feel good on my throat but I just happen to know that Green Tea is really good for you. I put quite a bit of honey in it to sweeten it up but thats ok because honey is good for you too. (In moderation) Ok now I think I'm really done :) The IBprofin 800 and Nyquil I took are kicking in I think. TIme to get some sleep....

GOOD NIGHT EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!

Learning

Hey Everybody,

So I'm sitting here at the library reading the blogging book I got for Christmas. I'm trying to learn more about blogs for a few reasons. 1. So it will hopefully begin to be a tool in my weightloss as it was first intended to do. 2. I would like to learn how to make my blog better so that; more people want to read and follow it, and so that those of you that are already following will read more often and be more interactive with it. One thing I have been told that makes my blog less attractive is the fact that I cannot for the life of me figure out how to make paragraphs, well I have not learned yet but I would like to make all of you aware that I am looking! :)

One thing I just read that might help me and I'm looking forward to because I do enjoy looking at other blogs is to do just that. The author of this blogs for dummies (yes seriously) says to research other peoples blogs with similiar subjects and goals of the blog your doing. So thats something I'm going to try to do.

Something else I wanted to share with all of you because it seems one way I push myself to be productive in my weightloss journey is to be held accountable for what I'm doing. So therefore I am going to keep you all informed on my plans for making this work. The first way I'm going to do that is by telling you all I am going to make it a point to go to the gym on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. I know thats not alot right now but with my crazy work schedule and what I've been doing lately (NOTHING) I think this is a good place to start. I know yesterday I told you all I was going to sign up for the Zumba class at the Y. Well kind of bad news. I called to sign up for that class today and was informed that it was FULL. I was not aware that that could happen so I'm going to do two things for now. 1. I have the money I was given for Christmas to do this class on my account as a credit. Therefore if I am not able to find a class this session it will still be there for the next session and I can tell you I will be one of the first people signed up for the Tuesday night Zumba classes lol. 2. I'm going to just kind of "show up" at the Tuesday night classes and see exactly how full they are because YMCA max members who are signed up for a core class are supposed to be able to go to any other core classes any time so.. I'm still going to make an attempt to go to this class. Also I figure if I'm already at the gym and the class is too full to take I can always just go up to the gym and do a regular workout which I should tell you its been so long since I've done that I'm kind of terrified of how my first workout back goes. :/

Ok well thats all for now so I'm going to continue reading and maybe have something more to tell you about later. BYES :D

short and to the point

Hey Everybody, So its a new year. I am focusing and RE-starting my weight loss journey. For Christmas my sister payed for me to go to the "core" classes that the ymca offers that I've been wanting to do for so long. I was getting really frustrated because i wasn't able to make my work schedule what it needed to be to be able to take any classes. Then I got frustrated because my mom and i were supposed to take the Zumba class together and I was really excited about that but then she backed out. SO NOW I'm back into what I was focusing on when I started this journey a year ago. I AM DOING THIS FOR ME AND NOBODY ELSE!! I am going to get my butt back to the gym on a regular basis. AND I also received from my sister for Christmas a couple of books on blogging. So hopefully I'll learn about a few new creative ways to keep this blog up to date and interesting. :) I'm also going to Boston with my sister to see our other "sister" at the end of the month.... it will be my first time on a plane and I'm terrified but completely excited as well. So that is just a little information on what is going on with me and now I have to get my butt to work. Soooo.... I'm gonna go and hope all of you are back on board with me... OH I almost forgot to mention that one of my places of employment is having a "biggest loser" competition. :) I don't know if there's any prizes or anything but we just had to sign up and put (if we wanted) what our starting weight was and how much we plan to lose by April 1st. I said I was going to lose 20 pounds in 3 months so I better get to it :D ok really thats all. BYES

Hi

Hello Everybody,

I'm BAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCkkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!! I've actually missed you all. You may not believe me because I have the power to write or not write in this blog. But honestly I have and I've done alot of thinking today and I wanted to share it with you.

But first I would like to just let you know part of the reason I haven't written in here for so long. LIfe for my family has been kind of crazy at the end of October beginning of November. My dad has been having problems at work and as of right now has not been working for 3 weeks. Also just after we found out he wouldn't be working we found out that 3 cousins from my mom's family all died very tragically and we're all still trying to cope with that. I'm not telling you this as an excuse I'm just saying life has been crazy and I wasn't/ haven't been very good at fitting my workouts and healthy eating into that crazy and hectic life. Unfortuantly it doesn't end there. My mom has also been having some health problems and had to have surger a week ago yesterday and it did not go quite as planned it went well but the recovery process is going to take a little longer than any of us planned on so I have been trying to work as much as possible as well as helping my dad around the house and taking care of my mom while also grieving the losses we had in our family. On the "brighter" side of things I did finally get under 200 pounds :D and even though I was not making it to the gym in the last couple of weeks I did not gain any weight :)

Now as far as my weightloss goes, like I said I did get under 200 pounds I've been staying pretty steady at 198-199 but thats ok I'm very excited about this. In addition, you may (or probably may not) remember that when I started my journey I was in a size 24 clothing. I'm pretty much at a steady size 18 now depending on the clothes. However here is the exciting part I wanted to buy a new shirt for the funerals we had and I work at lane bryant and we had just gotten a beautiful new shirt in. It literally wasn't even on the floor yet I was hanging them when my shift ended and I grabbed one up in the normal size 18 that I had been wearig and guess what..... IT WAS TOO BIG!!!!!!!!!!!!! So I bought the size 14-16 :D I was so super excited. And it's totally cute/beautiful. I'm in love with it. If I could get away with it I would want to wear it every single day of the week. lol.

I went back to the gym for the first time since October 29th on Monday. I was a little dissapointed in my workout but I figured I had been out of the gym for so long I would just have to get used to it again. I was a lot weaker than I thought I would be and tired out a lot faster as well. I did my normal half hour warm up on the eliptical but silly me I got on one without a tv figuring I had my book to read but I finished the book in the first ten minutes then got completely bored the rest of the twenty minutes so it really dragged. Then I went to do my weights and was really not into it I have been making my goal of 3 reps of fifteen on all my weights. I only got through like one or two reps then I left :/ However I did go back on Wednesday and had an amazing workout. I started with my half hour on the eliptical and did the weightloss program which was an excellent workout I felt. It would start me off with a low incline and crossramp then wam flip me up to a high incline and cross ramp and it just kept going back and forth like that for the whole half hour. Then I did my arm weights, the full 3 reps of fifteen on EVERYTHING. THen I did my two leg weight machines and attempted to jog a lap around the track in between my machines and it felt great but I don't know if I was going super faster than I normally do or if I was just that out of shape but when I got done I felt like I was going to die so I didn't do another lap like I usually do or probably should have :( But then after ALL THAT I went over to the mats and balance balls and did my crunches. This is something I really feel like I need to do more of becuase my stomach is the slowest place I see changes happening. So I definently want to start incorporating more of these into my workouts. So I got into my "MAN IN THE MIRROR" song and did my 3 reps of 15 crunches then continued going till I couldn't go anymore. Then I was smart and stretched my stomach so it wouldn't hurt super bad today and proceeded to starbucks to have some warm vanilla milk and do some reading.... IT was an amazing night :D I felt great afterward and feel great today and my stomach just has a tiny ache to remind me of how great I did yesterday.

Last but not least I would like to fill you all in on some thinking I was doing earlier today. This morning I wrote the prayer for thanksgiving dinner. I feel with all the difficult times my family has been having lately I was very inspired in this prayer that I wrote. Anyways in writing this prayer it got me thinking about what I was thankful for this year seeing as Thanksgiving is the time that we think about what we're thankful for and who would we be thankful to other than God? So I just wanted to share with all of you that the thing I am most thankful for this year is my weightloss journey. I feel like I have learned alot and I finally took matters into my own hands and finally made the change in my life that is not temporary but permanent. You see for so many years in the past I have prayed and wished (I feel are the same thing) for two things. 1. TO lose my weight. and 2. To have a boyfriend. and yes I do know how silly that sounds :) So I do find myself thanking GOd on a regular basis for finally helping me make this wish/prayer come true. I would also like to thank all of you for being on this journey with me I'm going to try to do some research on some other blogs and see what I can come up with to help me get on here on a more regular basis. THANK YOU ALLL hopefully we'll talk soon!!!

BYE- Kelly Jo

grocery shopping and calorie counter.... oh and

Hey everybody, So I know I know I haven't beeen on here for once again... FOREVER!!!! :( I just don't feel like I have a whole lot to say. So I'll tell you what I have. SO my mom and I recently got together to do some tweeking with my eating habits. Since my work schedules have been so crazy latley I have been doing alot of eating out which anybody who's ever attempted a weightloss journey knows is no good. I've been telling me mom I'm all for packing my lunches which would inevitably be much healthier and in the long run much cheaper. So my mom asked me to give her an example of a menu for three days. Three options of meals and snacks that I would normally eat on a regular basis and what I would need grocery wise to make that happen. Then we made a list of all those ingredients and I have been given the task of finding out the *first calorie count *then later the fat sodium fiber etc etc of all these items and tonight my mom and I went grocery shopping to get a bunch of stuff. It was actually kind of nice. Now I just have to put the work in. I'm supposed to be searching for my calories right now but I figured I haven't done this in a long time and it is an element of my weightloss journey so.... here I am.


Also I have been making a point of getting to the gym more often. I had a couple of great workouts last week. Full hours on the cardio equipment and extensive weight workouts. I was feeling great but then tonight I went to the gym and was just completely and utterly not into working out and only to make things worse I seem to want to eat everything in site and greasy things sound even better. ugh I hate it when i feel like this.

One last thing... I just saw on facebook that two of my favorites from season 9 just got engaged :D I'm very happy and excited for them. They're both great people, worked hard and deserve all the happiness they've found.

Ok so I'm going to go do some calorie searching. Ya'll have a great night.....

SEE YA KELLY

Hi

Hi Everybody,



So here I am again.... YAY!!!!! :) So I've had a pretty good week even though I'm feeling completely UNenergized today. I wrote in here on Monday, then Tuesday I got up and MOVING at a decent time. I put moving in big letters because getting up at a decent time is not my problem I actually like getting up at 8am but my problem is I like to get on the computer or turn the tv on and I can easily sit in front of either of those electronics for 2 hours until it's time to get ready for work or wherever I have to go or do that day. So anyways Tuesday morning I headed for the gym then upon getting there realized a Zumba class was about to begin and why not I'll try the new leader and see what happens. I loved it.... I mean Myra was still my favorite leader but Linda's not bad I personally think for me what makes it or breaks it as a good experience or not is the music. I'm all about music love it it is one of my few passions in life. Anyways I enjoyed it. Then I went for a quick swim in the pool and headed for home. I was going to go to the gym again Tuesday night with my workout buddy and friend nicole but I got off work late and was really hungry and wanted to get home and get some dinner. I figured it wasn't too big of a deal since I had already done one good workout that day. Then Wednesday I was going to go to the gym again in the morning to do a workout but I overslept of course it seems the only thing that gets me out of bed these days is work(money) or caffeine. I need to stock up on some 5 Hour Energy. Anyways I went to work and even before I left I told myself "since you didn't go to the gym this morning (I knew I wouldn't go at night cause I had plans) you will will will take the dog for a walk tonight" I love to go for walks I'm not sure if I've put that in here anywhere but I really do like to go for walks especially in this crisp fall weather we've been having in Ohio lately. So anyways I am not a big fan of walking bymyself I will if I have to it's not so bad if I have music but I prefer to walk with a baby in a stroller or a dog don't ask me why but I feel like I stand out less as a fat chick going for a walk but rather just a lady taking her dog for a walk or taking a kid out to tire them out and get them some activity either way it takes the spotlight off me. I don't know I just came up with that it sounds good lol. Anyways I like to walk my dog but before she had a big problem with pulling and it drove me crazy so I just stopped taking her for walks. But a couple of weeks ago my parents bought her a harness that is supposed to keep her from pulling so much while walking. I love this thing I would recommend it to ANYONE. She walks so nice now I love that both of us are getting more exercise because of it and we're getting out in the beautiful weather like last night was amazing. Anyways moving on so I pulled myself out of bed this morning again and went to Zumba class again. I wasn't quite as into it today as I was on Thursday but the moves were a little harder and I wasn't following all that well but I figure as long as I stayed and participated for the entire class (which I did) then it's a good thing. Afer the class I went to the gym and did some weight lifting cause I really havn't done much this week and while I'm happy with myself for being more active and doing more cardio I know I need to keep up with my weight lifting as well. So there you have it my productive exercisable week. I have to go get ready for work in half an hour but I want to let you all know I'm reading Shay from the BIGGEST LOSER her blog she links it to her facebook alot like I do and every thursday she does where she answers the first 25 questions asked and I'm going through the last few she's done and reading them they're very educational I am really enjoying reading them so I would suggest to you to take a look as well. I feel like I might be reading alot of her blog/website in the days to come so please check it out..... http://www.shaysorrells.com/?cat=4 BYESSSSS

Happy Labor Day

Good Morning everyone, So As I promised it doesn't matter what I write about as long as I write and right now I don't have a whole lot to say.

I think it was Friday that I wrote in here so I'll start with Saturday. It was a pretty great day. To start I was home alone all morning which is always good for my soul then I went out and did my part of the paper route my dad and I do. Which wasn't so bad because the weather was beautiful. Some people (Luke W.) may think otherwise but personally I LOVE LOVE LOVE this cooler weather Ohio is having right now. Fall is by far my favorite season only to be followed by Spring. :) Anyways then I went to Lane Bryant (not to work) to get FREE CLOTHES!!!! I loved it, you see I was going out with a friend of mine that evening, and I wanted to get a new top. So we went to a friend of mines house for a cookout and mini bonfire. Which was really nice cause I don't get to see him very often and him and his wife are having their first child and I got to see the nursery which is comming along beautifully. And we just plain had time to catch up. Then after that a guy I went to high school with was playing at a club in Bowling Green so we went to see his show. It was awesome. If you have time and have never listened to him you should definently check out LUKE JAMES he auditioned to be on American Idol last season and made it to the cut of the final 24. Yesterday was a a nice day too, I got to sleep in (as I did today) Then I went to church which I hadn't been to in a while so that was nice it was a great messge and they sang one of my favorite songs at the end. Then I came home and we had company over and my mom and I made an awesome dinner. Complete with cheesecake, salad, my famous sauteed mushrooms and onions (yum yum yum), moms amazing mashed potatoes, and grams famous roast beef (which really gave mom a run for her money this time around). After dinner I took my puppy for a walk. My parents bought her a walking harness which makes walking her a heck of a lot nicer than it used to be. She used to pull so bad when i would walk her and I love to walk her but I just couldn't handle the pulling so now that she has this harness we're going to be going for a lot more walks. We usually just go to Pemberville But there is a park in Perrysburg I've been wanting to take her to it's not an actual dog park but it's just a big beautiful park with a huge walking trail going around it and there's lots of dogs that go there to walk. Now that I think of it Pearson Park would be another nice place to take her to walk but thats a longer drive to get to. So now today I usually go to the gym on Monday nights but because of it being Labor day they're open but they close early and I work one thirty to six thirty today so by the time I get out of work which is when I would normally go to the gym they will be closed. :( ok well I gotta go get me some breakfast talk to ya all later. BYES

Welcome Back

Hi Everybody, I'm sorry I haven't written in so long I think thats how the last three posts have started but whatever. So here I'm going to try something new, as far as the blog goes I'm going to write a little at least a couple of times a week, here's the catch; it might not always be about weightloss but I just want to try to get into the routine of writing in here again. Also I am going to try to keep to workouts and diet stuff but here's the other part I'm hoping will keep me writing, I'm only focusing on writing maybe a paragraph to two each time I write.

So here's what has been going on with me, I have been super super busy I have recently started yet another job I am now working at Bob Evans, Panera Bread, and Lane Bryant this is all in addition to the paper route I do on the weekends with my dad so now people understand a little better why I have been M.I.A. so much lately. However I do need some encouragement to get to the gym more often you see it isn't just the blog I've been slacking at lately. I have only been getting to the gym about one to two times a week. In my defense I have also been trying to add a walk in in addition to the gym visits. I have a workout buddy now so workouts are good when I do go I just have to focus on getting there more often. It's really been bothering me that I haven't been on the track I was on before.


Also I auditioned to be on the Biggest Loser again. My mom and I went to an open casting call a couple of weeks ago. I really felt like it went really well but I didn't get a call back from my audition. Thats ok though I'm not letting it get me down I'm in the process of getting a snail mail audition tape and eleven page application out the door I just have two more questions to answer and need to get it in the mail :) wish me luck :) Also I have a friend I met at the BIggest lOser filming of this seasons premiere and he's on the brink of getting into season 11 we think so cross your fingers and say a prayer for him as well.

ONe last thing Season 10 of the BIGGEST LOSER starts September 21st this is the one I'm sure I'll be in lots cause I was at the challenge for the hope to be contestants I was right there with Ali and Bob along the whole thing and during the contestants weigh in I was standing right behind their families. SO PLEASE PLEASE WATCH AND KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR ME!!!!!!!!! :D

Talk to you sooooooooon Bye

Trying to stay current

Hello Everybody, So I don't have a whole lot to say BUT I am trying to get back into the habit or routine of writing in here whether it's something important or big that I want to share with all of you or just little daily stuff to share whats going on with me. So Today I was hoping to get to the gym but I have ooobers and ooobers of laundry to do. I don't even know where I'm going to start. Then I have to go to my "new" job at Lane Bryant for a few hours this evening. HOWEVER if I can get out of there early enough I will be heading over to the Y afterward. :) I did get to the y for about a half hour on Saturday just to get in the pool for a little while because it was so darn hot around here. however I did do some swimming and treading water so thats somewhat a workout, activity if nothing else. Other than keeping up with my workouts and trying to stay/get back into the routine of writing in here more often I'm also going to start working on my audition video for TBL. (The Biggest Loser) I also wanted to share with all of you how much I am missing cooking. I have not had any time in weeks to cook anything especially something new. I have the urge to do some creative food art. But I have been so darn busy and its been so hot. I know this week I work at a job everynight of the week till Saturday. I guess we'll just have to wait and see maybe I can come up with some new inventions on this haitus. lol :) Alright well as much as I've been trying to put it off I really need to get going on my laundry. So I hope to correspond with you all soon. BYE

hard workout = tired Kelly

Hey Everybody so I actually have half of a post saved in my drafts that I started to write and then never finshed for some weird reason so to keep that from happening again I'm just going to be short and to the point because I'm very tired from my kick ass workout I did this evening..... So it all started with me getting off work and having all evening to do whatever so there's been alot of stuff on my mind lately and alot of things I've been wanting to do one of which is get to the gym more often... in the process of making that happen :) Also I hadn't been to starbucks in what seems like a long time. So I treated myself to a new drink that got me ready and rearin to spend my evening at the gym. But before starbucks I had a healthy and econimical dinner at Max and Ermas. I had the carribean chicken with the salsa on the side because a good friend of mine that works there gave me a heads up that it was a little spicey. Oh my goodness I have never had this meal but it was amazing!!!!! I ordered the smaller portion primarily for the price savings but what I got made me forget that I got the smaller portion :) I received one chicken breast a lot of rice and it normally comes with broccoli but I love they're salads there so I got one of those instead and like I said I got the salsa on the side and even tried a little and it wasn't reallly spicey just had a little kick and was glad I got it on the side so I was able to control how much I had. I had water with my meal which was also a hard choice cause Max and Ermas has a delicious drink that is actually pretty bad for you that I love and I did not get it so that was a milestone kind of. So then after dinner I wanted to get a caffeine fix to help me through my workout also wanted to give my dinner a little time to absorb into my body before starting my workout also like I said wanted to spend some time at starbucks. SO I went :) however I'm strongly watching my pennies these days so I had to deliberate on what to order so I decided to go with a double shot of espresso over ice added my own sweetner and milk like I would to a cup of coffee and spent about a half hour reading and getting caffeinated up :) Then went to the gym by the time I got there it was about 6 or 6;30 I started with my normal half hour on the eliptical but then found a movie I have been seeing advertised called "Revenge of the Bridesmaids" which I loved and didn't want to miss any of so in addition to that first half hour on the eliptical I then moved onto the tredmill where I hung out for almost an hour (I took breaks though to jog the track and refill water and take a potty break so it's not like it was a full hour on the tredmill) Then the movie was almost over but I was sick of the tredmill so I went back to the eliptical for the last half hour but I didn't want to skip my weight training I've been focusing on latley just because I did extra cardio nooooo noo noo I continued on to doing my thigh weight machines jogged another lap on the track then did my two leg push down and lift up machines and did another jog around the track then went to do my arm free weights. I recently started a new free weight routine to try to bump it up a little so this is what I did I started with my 2 10 pound weights and did 15 bicep curls. I then did 15 squats 15 behind the head arm dip thingys then my 15 weights above head to toe touches. thats one set of all those exercises I'm trying to work my way up to three sets of each like I do with my leg exercises I'm only able to do two sets right now but as long as I keep going I should be able to get to three soon. THEN I went to cool off in the pool for a little while. I started in the big (cooler) pool to do my treading then moved into the therapy (warmer) pool to relax my muscles a little. I am in a lot of pain as of right now and can only assume it's going to be 10 times worse tommorow but I just have to remind myself that this is how I get results and if I keep doing it eventually it won't hurt anymore :) ok so now that I've filled you all in on my amazing night i'm going to get some sleep becuase I have to work two jobs tommorow :) GOOD NIGHT xxoo

hi, my name is Kelly..... :)

WEll hello everybody, ......

I know it's been FOREVER.......... since I've posted at least thats how it feels to me like it's been a lifetime. I was starting to feel like I didn't have a blog anymore. It's actually kind of sad, I've missed it and you all of course :) SO, what finally possesed me to post again? I came into the Y today (where I am right now) to do my updated fitness evaluation. I get a free one ever about 5 months with my membership. So I got my first one in January when I started my journey. Well it's officially been 5 months!!!!!!!! It's crazy and I am pretty dissapointed. The first about 3 months went great as everybody knows however this last month to two months has kind of.... decreased in results and it's frankly my own fault. I just haven't had the motivation or determination these last couple of months I need to get back that crazy determined feeling that I had before. I don't know whats going on but I am going to turn things around. Now don't get me wrong I haven't fallen off the wagon at least not in my mind because that would mean (to me) that I had gone back to my old habits but that hasn't happened I still come to the gym I just haven't been putting the work in like I originally was. I think I got a little "down" because I was all excited about joining a class on tuesday nights that I really enjoy but I have found that I needed to pick up some extra hours at work so I am now working Tuesday eveings at Bob's. :( I also have this huge family party at my parents house this weekend that we have every year. Anyways thats other "reason/excuse" for my lack of gym enthusiasm lately. Anyways I still have alot to do for that said party so I'm going to get this post finished so I can get home and get some work done.

So as far as the results for the evaluation goes..... we started with my weight which to me is the most dissapointing because I have also been watching my weight at home and that scale says that I have been fluctuating between a 12-15 pound loss. Which isn't nearly as great as I would like for it to be but it is a milestone. However when i got weight at the gym today (on the same scale I started on 5 months ago) I had only lost 9 pounds which is just plain unacceptable to me at this point. I am going to attack this journey with a kind of intesity I've never seen before starting June 21st you heard it here first. :) Anyways moving on, we checked my heart rate which I'm not totally sure what it shoudl be but I'm told this is good at 65 BPM and a blood pressure of 122/70. Then after walking (very quickly) on the track for a mile my ending hear rate was 106 BPM when for my age the max heartrate would be 197. I'm told my 106 is good but I personally feel it should be higher. Just in case your wondering my first quarter mile took me 4 min 36 sec. second quarter mile took 4 minutes 24 sec. 3rd quarter mile took 4 minutes 26 sec. 4th quarter mile took 5 minutes 3 sec. for a total of 18 minutes 6 seconds which i'm told is a full minute off my January mile. I'm not sure if thats good or bad considering how much more working out I've done in the last 5 months. I'm just saying it's good cause I don't usually walk the track. We also compared my pushups and sit ups I did 5 more situps than I was able to do in January and I still wasn't able to do traditional pushups however the trainer (Andrea) did show me how to do wall pushups which I did very well and was able to do 16. She also said if I were to do wall pushups more often it will get me in better condition to do the traditional pushups better. we also took my measurements again but I'm not going to post those right now I would rather wait to compare those to the numbers i have at home. Soooooo I finally posted now i need to get home and get something to eat so I can get some house work done. Oh joy lol. Talk to you soon.... BYE

BUSY!!!!!!!!

Hey Everybody,

So I realize it's actually been a REALLY long time since I've posted. I apologize but honestly it's been crazy busy around here. So I want to start off with saying how bummed I am that I haven't been able to post my pictures from my Biggest Loser experience but two days before I went to that I went to a birthday party at a bar and accidently left my camera case and it had my cord to upload my pictures from my camera to my computer I haunted the employees for two weeks after about where the heck my stuff was and of course nobody knew. I am completely furious because obviously somebody took it. We know what happened to it that night at closing we know who had it and where he put it but then of course the next day when the next person came in it wasn't there anymore HOW RUDE!!!! So anyways I need to find a new one which might take some time. :(

Next the kind of interesting thing going on in my life right now is that my mom and I are experimenting with being vegetarians. It has been a very interesting experience I have learned alot of new recipes that are delicious and learning a new way to eat. This IN NO way is a life change I don't think I could EVER completely give up my meat eating habits I love so much. :) In the meanwhile I'm having a lot of fun cooking new things.

I was doing great at the gym getting in good workouts also had a GREAT experience at Zumba and then a horrible experience at zumba of course the second was so bad because it was a different teacher than I normally go to but then Of course I was offered another day to work at Bob evans which of course I took and now can't go to the Zumba class that I was normally going to so I'm going to see what my other day and time options are that the same teacher leads. Maybe/hopefully I'll have some luck. This week I've been a little off the ball my schedule is all messed up in weird ways so I'm off tommorow during the day so I think I'm going to get up early and get there before I come home and do laundry then go to Bob's.

Also My mom and I started the being vegetarians on May 19th which was the 4 month anniversary of my weightloss journey. We decided to take over my measuring at home so that we can be sure everything is getting measured correctly and we just went with the orignal numbers that I started with in January and the numbers are amazing. At some point I would love to figure out how to make some type of line chart on here to track my weightloss and measurments but for now I'm just going to give you a little synopsis plus I don't have the numbers right in front of me right now so I'm just going to let you know I'm actually measuring in centimeters instead of inches I know it's weird but it's what the people at the gym used so to get the most accurate measurements we decided to stick with that. As far as I can remember I lost the least amount in my legs and possibly my arms which sounds kind of weird since I've really been focusing on my arms but like I said i'm not positive but the biggest changes was in my chest stomach and hips where all three places I lost multiple as in 5-6 cm.

Alright well I gotta get ready for work I just wanted to fill you all in on what was happening and why it had been so long since I'd posted. Hopefully it won't take so long to get on here again. Have a great day. :)

BYES

best day of my life :)

HEY EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I totally and completely had the best day of my entire life yesterday. I wish I could live it over and over again. For those of you living under a rock... just kidding lol I really mean for those of you that aren't totally obsessed with the biggest loser like I am lol.The Biggest Loser was in the Detroit area yesterday and my mom and I went. Ugh I totally can't concentrate I just great news from one of my best friends that I can't tell anybody yet..... anyways, SO I don't want to forget anything so I'm going to start from the beginning. Mom and I packed some snacks and healthy lunch stuff to take with us the night before mom got me a new shirt and shorts to wear that would be perfect for working out in. but I didn't really want to wear the shorts and its a good thing i didn't because it ended up being super cold when we got there. So while looking for something to wear the night before I tried on a teal sweatsuit that my parents had gotten me for christmas two years before that never fit guess what.... it fits now and looked super cute it's what I ended up wearing with the new pink shirt mom bought me underneath and the whole outfit looked super cute (then the orange shirt messed it up but more about that later) So we were supposed to get up at 3am to leave by 4am to get there by 530 am because check in started at 6 and we figured there was going to be ALOT of people there and only the first 300 people got tshirts and only so many people were going to be able to do the challange. So we wanted to make sure we got in and got to get and do EVERYTHING! Well we overslept. We didn't get up until 4am when we should have been leaving and didn't leave until 5am when we should have been almost there. But we made excellent time and got there at 6am and we were still number 62 and 63 in line. Personally I think it was meant to be and I am totally greatful that we got there late because if we had gotten there earlier then we might not have been in line with the people we were in line with. To me that was a huge part of the experience. We stood with a group of 5 other people, a guy Named Luke who we swear is going to be a contestant on season 11 of the show and his friend Eric who we hope can get on as well. THey were in front of us along with a girl who introduced herself then proceeded to tell us a story about how when she was in college she was joking with people and told them her name was amy so then I called her amy and forgot her real name lol. Then behind us was Loretta and another girl who I really liked her name but I forgot it already jeez lol. Anyways we all had great conversation and had alot of fun while waiting in line from 6am to 10:30 am. At one point when I went to use the restroom (porter style) I saw Helen from a previous season getting out of her car so at the last minute I decided to go get a picture with her, little did I know that she would be only the first of many past contestants I would see, get pictures with, and get to hang out with. Once We were allowed over to the area where everything was going to take place, it was so exciting the energy was so amazing and everybody was so extremely nice. The Director came out and explained what was going to take place that day. Then the Producer came out and told us what was going to happen with the cameras and the taping and everything. It was literally being backstage of a taping of the show we were there we were extras we were INVOLVED!!!!! Then the second most exciting thing of the day happened. ALISON SWEENEY came out. It was so surreal. I got a super good spot at the very front of the crowd I was literally right in front of where she was standing and oh my gosh she is so freaking beautiful and skinny skinny skinny this is so amazing to me because I watch her both on Biggest Loser and Days of our lives. I don't know what thy do but the shows make her look bigger than she actually is. THis girl is like stick thin. and so incredibly nice. She looks completely different in real life than she does on tv. As far as past contestants go I met Amy and Shallay mother and daughter team from season 7 I thnk it was also Carla from the same season and helen the winner!!!!! they;re all from Michigan so it was great to see them. Then THE most exciting event of the day not the best moment of the day but the most exciting when BOB HARPER came out for the very first time that day. it was amazing I very much almost lost my voice from screaming sooo much. And I totally got a sunburn from being in the beautiful weather all day. But it was so worth it. I would love to just live that day over and over again for the rest of my life. anyways after we all got introduced to BOB he took us through a warm up to get ready for the day. We did I think it was 3 rounds of Jumping jacks push ups squats and punching. I was so focused i can't even explain it.I didn't feel any pain like i normally would. I felt great was completely concentrated on what i was doing. Everybody should watch for me on the season premiere of next season not as a contestant but definently in the background I have to be on at least once. At one point Bob called me a "little firecracker" I was honored I was the only one that day that bob gave a nickname too. And at One point while I was doing push ups he came up behind me and I didn't know he was there and he pushed on my back while I was doing my push ups. I am so much more obsessed with him now that I was before. Oh my gosh to be trained by this man would be SOOO amazing. He is a genious. So after we did our warm up we were introduced to 3 people for the next season of Biggest loser. Then we had some meet and greet time with Ali and bob for pictures and autographs and such. Scanning the pics at the library didn't work as I planned so once again hopefully I can get the pictures up soon I can't wait to share them with all of you. We then moved onto the weigh in's The three new contestants had to be weighed in for the starting weight and they did it in front of all of us. I was standing directly behind their families and Carla Triplett was standing right next to me we had bonded a little when we met earlier in the day and after the people got they;re starting weights they told us about they're story and why they needed/wanted to lose they're weight this was a very emotional time for everybody watching and Carla put her arm around me while we were watching and we were both patting the contestants families on they're backs when they got emotional. It was a very...... speechless few moments. Then after all that we all got a little break to get a snack use the restroom and set up for our challenge. Which to my relief was a stepup challenge. I enjoyed it soooo much I barely even noticed I was exercising. you see while we were stepping so were those three contestants you see they were challenging for they're spot on the Ranch. Only the first two people to reach 500 steps made it to the ranch the third one had to stay home. It was so amazing two guys and one girl and I honestly thought the girl was in last place but guess what .... SHE WAS THE WINNER :) I was so excited and of course we were all there to support them so my mom and I were cheering on the girl the whole time and of course that was hard on our throats but it made us forget about the stepping we were doing ourselves. After the challenge was over to two winners got to leave for the Ranch.... yes THE RANCH!!!!!!!!!! Bob had to go talk to the person who came in last place for a little while so of course we were all waiting to get to see him again and tell him goodbye. I wanted to get another picture with him cause I really wasn't happy with the one I had gotten earlier. I was taking awesome pics with Ali but couldn't for the life of me get a decent one with Bob I always ended up making weird faces. But thats probably just because I was so freaking excited so anyways I tried one more time then finally said goodbye to everybody and we came home. Oh but then when we stopped for dinner we went to walmart to print my pictures off my camera and my mom bought me some new workout pants that I'm so excited about I had really been needing some new ones I've been working out in sweats which I really like but they're getting....wait for it.... TOO BIG!!!! So I got a pair of workout capris I'll see if I can get a pic in them and when I get a new cord for my camera I'll put them on. :) SO thats all it took me ALL day to write this post but it is now DONE!!!! I let my body rest today but tommorow I'm going to go back to the gym I don't know what exactly I'm going to do yet but we'll see. Write again soon. THanks for all your support guys and be sure to watch the show tommrow next week is THE FINALE!!!!!!!!! xxoo

Kellly