Slim Down Summer + Boot Camp

My ideal self wakes up early and exercises. So I did it. Signed up for 5:30 am Boot Camp. I’ll be going two days a week and, to keep a good schedule, waking up and doing cardio the alternative weekdays.
This will be a slim down summer. I’m going to work my ass off. I’m sick [...]

Ideal Self Check In

Yesterday was an almost ideal day. I ate a healthy breakfast of an apple and greek yogurt. I did my makeup first thing in the morning and felt confident and ready to take on the world. Work went well: I was engaged in topics, interested, and able to contribute to important projects. I spent quality [...]

The Media Is Obsessed With Fat People: I Want To Save Your Life

Show: I Want To Save Your Life
Rating: Boooo

Station/ Time: WE TV, Saturdays at 10p|9c

Premise (from website): WE TV’s all-new original series I Want to Save Your Life showcases undercover health interventions by Charles Stuart Platkin, a nutrition and public health advocate, also known as the Diet Detective. After struggling with weight loss in [...]

Monday Manic Monday

Mood: Ready!
 Goal for the day: Finish my to do list.
Last movie I watched: HBO’s Grey’s Garden. Fabulous movie. 
Lipgloss, lipstick, chapstick, or naked? Lipstick- Lancome Color Fever Shine in Old Flame
Breakfast beverage: Vitamin Water 10, lemonade flavor
Goals for the week: Start the new semester off well, get everything I need to done before Special Olympics Track [...]

Weekly Update

Weekly Update:

I lost 5 lbs this week. I’m a happy camper. Just eating cleaner and trying to move.
What is your Ideal Self doing this weekend? I’m participating in a neighborhood clean-up event.
Tonight I will be participating in the local Relay For Life as part of the Special Olympics Team. The American Cancer Society Relay For [...]

The Ideal Self Challenge

… the quality of your life is predicated by the manner in which you participate in it. Your participation is based on who you believe you are……

Last semester I made friends with a girl in my class who amazed me. She biked everywhere around Tallahassee. She brought whole fruits and veggies to snack on during [...]

Product Review: MBT Shoes

Product: MBT Shoes
Website: MBT: The Anti-Shoe
Description (from website): What is this MBT shoes? MBT stands for Masai Barefoot Technology. Physiological footwear denotes shoes that have a number of positive effects not only on the foot but on the whole body. MBT is the first physiological footwear. Masai Barefoot Technology is patented worldwide.
Designed by a Swiss [...]

The One Where Kelly is Way Too Over-Emotional About Graduate School…

Exciting news people! This:

I will never have to stare at that again! I passed my quantitative statistics class! I cannot explain how happy this makes me. Honestly, words cannot describe what I felt upon hearing but here’s an attempt to explain everything that went through my mind:

“I am so glad all the hours I put [...]

Monday Manic Monday

Mood: Rejuvenated
Craving: Nothing. I had a great breakfast of peach greek yogurt and a Vitatop Muffin.
Highlight of my weekend: Making up my sleep deficit and Special Olympics Track and Field practice
Weekly Goals: To not over schedule myself and enjoy me week off of school.
Fragrance:  Very Irresistible Givenchy
Quote of the day: “There can be no joy in [...]

I’m Back (and Fatter than Ever)

Yesterday the final draft of the $40,000,000 project I’m in charge of was put in pdf format and sent routing. Last night was the last exam of the semester. In a few short hours I will turn in my last paper of the semester. Then I get a break. I get- get this- a whole [...]