You can do anything for 21 days: Day 2

Mom and I started the 21 day fix yesterday. Today is Day 2. I had intended to post before pics and measurements on Sunday night, but had a temper tantrum instead. Then I intended to do this post last night, but I distracted myself with Netflix and was determined to post this morning. When do I end up writing about this? At almost 10pm on the second day. Better late than never though right.

Before I do, I'll share some of my thoughts from the last two days.
- This is a ton of food. How can I eat all this?
- Also I'm hungry (at 11pm - I should be sleeping)
- I want chocolate!
- I'm so sore! (This has been said or thought at least 20 times today, and that was just after one workout, I hadn't even completed today's workout until 2pm; and was mostly said when I sat down or bent to pick something up. But that means that it's working my out right.)

I had more to say, but I think I just want to get the basics out of the way and go more in depth later.

Starting measurements
Weight: 243.7 (Zoinks!!! Can't believe it. So embarrassed and humiliated right now)
Chest: 43''
R Arm: 15"
L Arm: 14"
Waist: 39"
Hips: 52.5"
R Thigh: 29"
L Thigh: 28"
Total: 220.5"

Before pics: Yikes. I can't believe I'm actually going to post these, but I am. I have done this to myself and I need to keep the motivation up. Hopefully I can provide some sort of inspiration for other.

 
 

The lazy life of me and a couple beach pics

It's time for another post. I haven't done much in the past month. Wow, over a month has gone by, and I have nothing to show for it. I have done some things around the house that mom wanted done: drained and cleaned and refilled the hot tub, cleaned the bar area and drawers in the kitchen, laundry, clean bathrooms. But that's pretty much it.

I have things that I need to be doing. For example, I need to take a CPR certification class. I've been putting it off and putting it off, I need to go ahead and pay for it and go in and get my card. Then when that is done, I need to print out my applications for state licensure. I think I keep putting these things off because I am so terrified to get my board scores back. I literally have small panic attacks when I start to think about it and get freaked out, so I change my thought process almost immediately. This makes it difficult to focus on anything optometry related. I just can't deal. I just can't. I have less than two weeks now. I may be freaking out a little more now that one of my friends did not pass their state boards. Sucks for this person and I truly feel for them, but I'm quite a bit farther behind. Life on standby remember. Anywho...

Well, I haven't been totally cooped up in my house for the last month. I have had weekend trips to Pensacola and Gulf Shores. The Pensacola trip was to go tubing with some friends and then we explored the fort, but we got too much sun tubing that we didn't spend any time on the beach. Not a big problem because I'm fat and don't like to expose my body to the ridicule of the other people on the beach too much. Then we went to Gulf Shores to explore for some potential real estate to rent out (well my mom's bf was looking for real estate to invest it to rent out) I was just there for the ride. It was nice because we went after school started and the season was pretty much over - so there weren't that many people on the beach. It was nice to squish my toes in the sand and play in the water a little bit, even if the waves were pretty rough over the weekend. I got two amazing pictures at the beach. If I say so myself, they are pretty amazing. I think I'll share them here.

beach stairs

boardwalk

I think I may have missed my calling as a photographer. I do love my crafts and try to be creative. I need to blog more when I do cool things like that. I did my mom's finger nails the other week and got creative with the design. I should have taken a couple of pics and posted them here. I also made banana bread the other day, I should have taken pics and walked you through my baking. But... I do have a dozen apples to do something with and have decided to bake something tomorrow. It may be apple bread, it may be apple cake, it may be apple pie, I have no clue yet, but I will keep you updated with it. 

Also, mom just bought a knit pattern book. She wants me to make her a shawl. Looks like I'll have to make a trip to JoAnn's for some Patons lace soon. Just another one of the projects I want to do. Don't know why I don't do them during the day. I get caught up in sleeping, watching tv, and browsing the web. 

Have a beautiful evening. Sweet dreams.

When one door closes, somewhere a window opens.