Woo hoo! We've made it through another week!
Today started off not so great - Andrew decided to set his alarm an hour earlier than he gets up on loud last night so at 3:30 this morning I got jarred awake by the alarm...I was not happy! I couldn't get back to sleep so I got up for a short time and went back to sleep around 4:30. When I got up this morning I was exhausted! I kept pressing snooze to stay in bed just a little longer.
I had my first quiz in my first aid class and I think I aced it, it was only a little 5 point quiz but those add up! I got a sugar free redbull to get me through the class so I was good to go ;)
I decided just to bum around the house today since I felt like I really needed some chill time, as you can tell from my last post! I caught up on Project Runway - love that show! - and got some quality cuddle time with my kitties.
I am definitely going to start ChaLEAN Extreme on Monday, wish me luck! My goal is to be back in the jeans that I wore in March by New Years Eve, I have roughly 90 days and that's how long the program is! It's supposed to be less hard on the joints so I think this is just what I need to get ready for Turbo Fire!
That is all for now just wanted to put out a quick update.
Hope you have a great 3 day weekend! Hooray!
Nykkie
Friday, September 3, 2010
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Frustration.
I am just so frustrated right now.
My weight is out of control and I am just completely unhappy with my body. Just yesterday I discovered that my stretch marks, once contained to my stomach, have moved to my thigh. They are faint, but it is still really saddening to see that they are there, and the fact that they are there forever unless I do laser therapy.
I am feeling better on Metformin as of now but come Monday I up my dosage again (the last time, hooray!) so I will feel like crap for another week, the week of my hubby and I's 3 year anniversary. Bummer. Maybe that's why I am so bummed right now, last year I was able to wear a bikini and feel proud of where I was, now I wouldn't even be caught in a one-piece.
Sometimes I feel like I'm going nowhere with my life. I just decided to go back to school to be a dental assistant and it looks like that will take longer than I had hoped: I have to take 3 classes prior to qualifying for the dental assisting program and 2/3 classes were full this semester. I was hoping to start the program in January (it's 11 months long) but I probably won't get into it until Fall or the next spring after that. The reason I wanted to get done so quickly is because my husband and I are planning on moving to Colorado in a few years, and I wanted to have the degree and some experience under my belt prior to moving. That pushes things back at least a year, maybe two. The town that we live in has nothing to offer for us although all of our family lives here. We'd like to start a family someday (although that will be a bitch too, with my damn PCOS) and I want him/her to have the best opportunities I could give them, and this town won't give them anything.
I am probably going to start ChaLEAN Extreme come Monday if I feel okay. We'll see about that, I usually feel ok in the mornings...I am hoping that I can get results semi-fast and I am able to lose weight like a normal person. 1-2 pounds a week would make me so happy!
That's enough of my rambling for today :)
Good night!
My weight is out of control and I am just completely unhappy with my body. Just yesterday I discovered that my stretch marks, once contained to my stomach, have moved to my thigh. They are faint, but it is still really saddening to see that they are there, and the fact that they are there forever unless I do laser therapy.
I am feeling better on Metformin as of now but come Monday I up my dosage again (the last time, hooray!) so I will feel like crap for another week, the week of my hubby and I's 3 year anniversary. Bummer. Maybe that's why I am so bummed right now, last year I was able to wear a bikini and feel proud of where I was, now I wouldn't even be caught in a one-piece.
Sometimes I feel like I'm going nowhere with my life. I just decided to go back to school to be a dental assistant and it looks like that will take longer than I had hoped: I have to take 3 classes prior to qualifying for the dental assisting program and 2/3 classes were full this semester. I was hoping to start the program in January (it's 11 months long) but I probably won't get into it until Fall or the next spring after that. The reason I wanted to get done so quickly is because my husband and I are planning on moving to Colorado in a few years, and I wanted to have the degree and some experience under my belt prior to moving. That pushes things back at least a year, maybe two. The town that we live in has nothing to offer for us although all of our family lives here. We'd like to start a family someday (although that will be a bitch too, with my damn PCOS) and I want him/her to have the best opportunities I could give them, and this town won't give them anything.
I am probably going to start ChaLEAN Extreme come Monday if I feel okay. We'll see about that, I usually feel ok in the mornings...I am hoping that I can get results semi-fast and I am able to lose weight like a normal person. 1-2 pounds a week would make me so happy!
That's enough of my rambling for today :)
Good night!
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
First Post
Good afternoon!
I thought I should post a little about myself.
My name is Nykkie and I am 21. I have been married happily for three years on the 8th and we have 5 kitties (a lot, I know, but we love them to death!).
I am into fitness, although looking at me you would not know that. I managed to lose 20 pounds last year and was extremely happy with myself, and maintained my weight all through March of this year. In March, unfortunately I lost my job and that's when things started going down hill. I become inactive and my healthy eating habits were nonexistent. I gained back all 20 pounds and 10 more.
The place where I was working called me back to work a different job there part-time. I was happy to have somewhere to go and to be wanted somewhere. I decided to get back on the weight-loss wagon but quickly figured out that I couldn't lose a pound, although it has always been difficult for me to lose weight...I have been overweight most of my life.
I finally went to the doctor after not having a period for two months (I went off of birth control in March when I got laid off but I knew I wasn't pregnant). After doing some research online, I had many of the symptoms of PCOS, polycystic ovary syndrome. I asked my mom and sister about it, and the symptoms ran in the family. The doctor did some blood work and various tests. I was diagnosed with PCOS a few weeks ago which was a relief - finally I had an answer to all of my weight troubles my entire life! I never would've caught the symptoms if I had not gone off of birth control to save money and gained the weight back, so I suppose that was a blessing in disguise.
I am now on birth control again and another medication, metformin. I've been on it for two weeks now and it's a tough thing for my body to get used to. Every night is dedicated to headaches and nausea, and it requires me to eat bigger meals than I want to as I want to get this weight gone, because if I eat a small meal the symptoms intensify greatly. I am hoping once I get to my max dosage I can start easing off of the large portion sizes.
For exercise, I am in love with Beachbody programs. I have Power 90, TurboJam, and TurboFire. I liked P90 but couldn't commit to it, I felt it was too boring. TJ and TF on the other hand, I just love! I got to week 3 in Turbo Fire and noticed that it was just too hard on my joints with all of this extra weight, so I sadly have to shelf it for the time being. I am lucky to have an elliptical here at home so for now I will be using that, TurboJam, and some yoga until I am a bit lighter and will re-start TF once I feel my joints can handle all of that jumping!
My future posts will be about my weight struggle and I feel that I need to share my journey with the world. I will hold nothing back, I know I will love having every step documented once I get to the end!
I look forward to posting and thank you for reading my first post!
Nykkie
I thought I should post a little about myself.
My name is Nykkie and I am 21. I have been married happily for three years on the 8th and we have 5 kitties (a lot, I know, but we love them to death!).
I am into fitness, although looking at me you would not know that. I managed to lose 20 pounds last year and was extremely happy with myself, and maintained my weight all through March of this year. In March, unfortunately I lost my job and that's when things started going down hill. I become inactive and my healthy eating habits were nonexistent. I gained back all 20 pounds and 10 more.
The place where I was working called me back to work a different job there part-time. I was happy to have somewhere to go and to be wanted somewhere. I decided to get back on the weight-loss wagon but quickly figured out that I couldn't lose a pound, although it has always been difficult for me to lose weight...I have been overweight most of my life.
I finally went to the doctor after not having a period for two months (I went off of birth control in March when I got laid off but I knew I wasn't pregnant). After doing some research online, I had many of the symptoms of PCOS, polycystic ovary syndrome. I asked my mom and sister about it, and the symptoms ran in the family. The doctor did some blood work and various tests. I was diagnosed with PCOS a few weeks ago which was a relief - finally I had an answer to all of my weight troubles my entire life! I never would've caught the symptoms if I had not gone off of birth control to save money and gained the weight back, so I suppose that was a blessing in disguise.
I am now on birth control again and another medication, metformin. I've been on it for two weeks now and it's a tough thing for my body to get used to. Every night is dedicated to headaches and nausea, and it requires me to eat bigger meals than I want to as I want to get this weight gone, because if I eat a small meal the symptoms intensify greatly. I am hoping once I get to my max dosage I can start easing off of the large portion sizes.
For exercise, I am in love with Beachbody programs. I have Power 90, TurboJam, and TurboFire. I liked P90 but couldn't commit to it, I felt it was too boring. TJ and TF on the other hand, I just love! I got to week 3 in Turbo Fire and noticed that it was just too hard on my joints with all of this extra weight, so I sadly have to shelf it for the time being. I am lucky to have an elliptical here at home so for now I will be using that, TurboJam, and some yoga until I am a bit lighter and will re-start TF once I feel my joints can handle all of that jumping!
My future posts will be about my weight struggle and I feel that I need to share my journey with the world. I will hold nothing back, I know I will love having every step documented once I get to the end!
I look forward to posting and thank you for reading my first post!
Nykkie
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