Goodbye 2013....Hello 2014!!!

Hey Yall! Happy 2014....

I'm feel'n extra talkative today. I hope everyone's year is off to a great start! My year has been pretty great so far...
I got a new job, 5 minutes from home!
I officially started Weight Watchers... officially means I'm not using my Mom's books from 1995. Hello 21st century with cool apps! I have lost 8lbs since, joining said Weight Watchers, the week of Christmas! See you later 'Thunder Thighs'...

So, maybe, my New Year started a little before it actually got here. Yes, I fell off my rocker and bumped my head when I joined Weight Watchers the week of Christmas. Why wait though, Christmas will be back around next year, but my thunder thighs won't.

I love the NEW Weight Watchers program!

This year has been full of surprises and emotions. Let's run through the highlights if 2013...

Lost 30lbs and found a little more of myself (one of last years resolutions). Here's the first 20lbs.

My husband started feeling well enough to go back to work. Read about his condition here.

My brother signed up and left for the military.

Joined a gym and actually went to workout.

Consistently tried to eat healthy and not gain what I lost.

Took better care of my skin (one of last years resolutions).

Found time for myself and took bubble bathes (one of last years resolutions).
My brother made surprise visits for Thanksgiving and Christmas!

Read about last years Resolutions HERE.

Resolutions/Goals for 2014

Find the size that fits Chelsea. I wouldn't say I have a goal weight but I wanna find what I feel comfortable at.

Update my clothing fashion a little bit, yall if fashion /style is considered by how much of your goods you hang out I will never be in style. Some of the outfits I see around excuse me ma'am your cooch meat is hanging out   are redic...

Blog more and inspire people in need.

Learn how to run and finish a 5k.

What's resolutions did you make? Are you still hanging in there?

 

 

Yall, make 2014 an Awesome year!!!

 

And because no post is complete without these two cuties...

Gravy Heaven....

So my lifestyle change died and went to gravy heaven...

I'm on a slippery slope and trying not to slide down. Don't ask me how it happened, I wouldn't know what to say.

I eat great from 6am-4pm... but at home it's totally different!

No lie, for dinner last night I had biscuit and gravy...

Ya'll I couldn't make this issh up if I wanted to.

 

 

My life is not perfect and if this blog or any blog seems all buttercups and butterflies, you better roll your pant legs up because the shits gettin' deep...

Here's where I went sliding...

A few months back my father-in-law was kicked out of his house and "temporarily" moved in with us. This man eats more processed, candy, crap than should be possible. Until he moved in our house had nice, healthy, good for you food, now it looks like the inside of a gas station. Cookies, cakes, candy, soda and fast food... 
How long would you say "temporarily" means?

I slipped and found myself swimming in candy.
I'm miserable.
I'm eating all sorts of crap.
I've lost control.
I haven't cooked at home is weeks.

 

Instead of letting this go ANY further I am gonna take charge and kick the bad food out.

I know what needs to be done for me to see the progress I want/need and it doesn't include an afternoon binge.

Yesterday I started the November Challenge I found on a friends Instagram page. I'm a little behind and will have to play catch up...



If you're looking for a good Challenge...

Check me out on Instagram to see my Nomber goals and see how I'm beating the afternoon binge...
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Where is Chelsea???

It's kinda like the hard level on Where is Waldo.

Honesty my wagon broke, ban-wagon. Ya know the one that I was on about losing weight.

You see my tire flew off, the axle snapped in half, and a lot of more lame excuses.
That's exactly what they are excuses. The fact is I let life get the best of me.

This week I have been back on the ban-wagon and got this thing going, again.

The whole reason I started this blog was to keep a diary of what was going on in life and keep far away family up to date. If no one else ever read it that was fine. It was for me and maybe it would help someone one day that was having a hard time with their weight. Maybe Google would send them my way.

I have been all over the place with my eating habits. When I got off of work lately chances are you would find me with my head in the fridge, a bag of chips or some other un-healthy item. I was on a binge, a month long binge.

That's not who I wanna be!!!

So today I am proclaiming that I am back on track and I will NOT GIVE UP. I will not let life get me down. Honestly I am my own worst enemy. I sabotage myself. I do it!

Altought I have not gained any weight, I know bad food shows. I was bloated. I was tired and didn't sleep well at all.

Chances are you will find daily updates on Instagram or facebook. Check me out there.

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I'm try and post here weekly, so check back!

TWENTY POUNDS, Holla!!!!

HAPPY Monday!!!!!!

 

Wednesday I went and got my hair cut by the fabulous JoAnne. She did an awesome job! I am in love with my new hair and it really made a difference in the way I fell about how I'm looking.  I think we took about 8 inches off of my hair. JoAnne is looking for some new clients.

Give her a call she's the best! Fantasy Hairstyling in Zebulon 919-269-8585.

Mention my name your sure to get a good seat, hahaha!

I get nothing for talking about the places I love I do it just so you will know about all the wonderful local places.

Love my new HAIR!!!

Check out my before and after hair on Instagram @littlebittraditional



I have worked out with my best friend Monica, it's been great!

 

Monday: Zumba

Tuesday: Body weight exercises

Wednesday: I got my hair cut so we didn't meet up to exercise but I went walking with Mama

Thursday: Monica had a family matter she had to tend to. I did body weight exercises!

 

 Guess What??????

I've lost 20lbs!!!!!!!!

Thursday I got the cutest dress at Target for all of $8, SCORE!!!

Finally got a high-low dress.

Dress- Target
Jacket- Old Navy

 

Friday night we went out to My Place in Wake Forest, Dinner & Dancing

 

Saturday we went to the beach and went shark fishing. Had a BLAST!

Didn't catch a shark but I did catch sea-sickness!

Lets just say I'm not Ariel from the Little Mermaid.

 

 

 Thanks to Tax Free Weekend I got these new shoes for $25.00

 

Growing up as me, Chelsea...

Growing up I was not necessarily popular.
I had red hair. I got picked on for it.
I was super-pasty-white. I got picked on for it.
I was not a stick figure.
I was country
I moved here to NC as a pre-teen and had no life long friends.
I wasn't in the "in crowd"
I didn't care about being the best dressed
My hair was always a crazy, curly, mess.
I didn't feel pretty
I didn't feel worthy
I had self-esteem issues
I didn't love, Chelsea

People were not nice.
Growing up this way created a hard shell.
I built big time walls, like the wall of China.

I was blunt, too blunt
I didn't care what anyone had to say
I didn't know how to take joke.
Being the joke for most of my life, made taking an innocent joke hard.
I lost a lot of friends
I ended friendship before they even started
I didn't take shit

My junior year, of High school, I started to realize that I am, and will always be, Chelsea. This name will follow me around for the rest of my life. That I couldn't change the past but the future was all mine.

I started becoming friends with this girl I had lived my whole life with, myself.
I learned to embrace the person I was
Super-pasty-white, bright red-curly-crazy-big mess-hair, Chelsea.

I wasn't going to "fit in", I was going to be me.
I wasn't going to change me to be something I wasn't.
I started loving, Chelsea and it showed.
The walls came down.
I got new friends
Kept some old friends and got rid of some useless ones.
People started to like, Chelsea
I got hurt, I brushed it off and kept on going

To love your life you have to love yourself. To have true friends you have to be a true person.

You have to love yourself.

What is life if you can't laugh at yourself. Have fun with the person you are with all your flaws. You are you and that's all you can be, naturally.

People are going to hate.
There will always be the one person that calls you, white.
That someone who mentions your weight.
One person you ended a friendship with before it even started.
Those times are only temporary. You are you forever!

So you have curves? Good, I'm sure you look good in jeans.
        

What you have curly hair too? Oh-emm-gee love your curls everyone else does!

You're only tan when compared to a sheet of paper or Elmer's glue?
Well I guess you and I wont have to worry about looking like a wrinkled up, leather couch.

 

I'm sure most of you have seen this on national news. This man was a semi-truck driver for many years. The side of his face that was protected vs. the side that took the suns beating.

 

Embrace yourself, love yourself. You are you!

Hair cut...

So I scheduled my hair cut.

You're probably thinking that I have made it to the 20lb lost mark.

You're wrong.

I haven't lost any weight and it's frustrating!

I have been eating healthy and have not budged one bit on, my friendemy, the scale.

What do I do?

 

 

I have not moved any on the scale in a couple weeks now and I am pissed! Monday I took out my frustrations on the unhealthy food in the house... I ate it. I figured if I am eating healthy and seeing no change then I must be doing something wrong. Or doing things completely right and my body is doing things completely wrong. I just don't know!!! So I figured a good spike in calories couldn't hurt and I ate like a mad woman... What do you do when you are stuck?

 

This week I will lose 5 pound! I have scheduled my hair appointment for next Wednesday and it will be gone by then. Gone, never coming back, see you on someone else's back, gone for good, gone. If I have to eat broccoli every night and walk in a monsoon it will be gone! I started counting calories with Myfitnesspal also. Maybe this will turn things around and I am trying to stay away from wheat products. We will see how that goes.

 

This week I am working on my legs. I double hate my inner thighs!!! So I am targeting them this week with strenght training. Last week I worked on my arms.

 

Here is this past weekends happenings...

 

Friday night we went out with the Hubb's boss and his family. All inclusive date with dinner and a movie, The Conjuring is scary! I can never make it through an entire movie without having to go use the Ladie's Room. Never fails, I always say I can make it through a movie, hold it as long as possible then realize I will never make it without a potty break.

Of course I would pick the only stall with no latch. Great job, Genius!

 

For dinner we had Mexican, love. I had Chicken breast with black beans and a water.

 

Saturday we were really busy and I neglected to take pictures. I got all this Saturday night at Walgreen's. I paid for the vitamins and got the rest for less than a dollar, score!!!

 

 

In other news my phone has not been cooperating properly and my instagram wouldn't work for the last week. I finally fixed it, I think. I couldn't post a picture of the Shrimp & Grits I cooked last Thursday. They were so good! Super easy. Microwave bacon for 5 minutes. Wrap shrimp in pre-cooked bacon. Grill until shrimp are done. Plop them bad boys on some grits and get down!

 

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Near Death...

...thanks to a pair of running shoes.

 

 

Wednesday, when I got home from work, I was set on getting the scale to move.

I have read that with running the weight just kinda falls of. We will see!

I started the Couch2fivek (C25k) and I almost died.

 

It was 92 and very humid.

I am not a runner!

Running around the bases is about my extent.

I haven't played softball since Junior year of High school.

I am not a runner, did I say that yet?

 

Running to me is really just a mind game.

How far can you push yourself?

From one light pole to the next, from one driveway to the next.

Can you run for 60 seconds straight?

You can do it, yes you can.

 

Day 1 Week 1 of C25k:

warm up for 5min. steady walk

60 seconds jogging

90 seconds walking

Repeat jogging and walking for 20 min.

Now it may not seem like a lot a running but, it is hard.

 

You know what I realized?

You can do anything you put your mind too.

I have always known this but not with exercise.

I never thought I was strong enough.

I am and you are too...

 

I was ubber proud of myself when I finished.

I was proud to be out of breath.

Proud to be tomato-red-face.

Proud to be all sweaty!

Proud to know that the only thing that can beat me is me.

I am in control!

 

 

 

Under my belt I have day 1 of C25k finished.

Today I am suppose to complete Day 2.

It is the same routine as Day 1.

Lets see how this goes!!!

Remember you can follow me and my adventures on instagram @littlebittraditional