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Travel Woes

I haven't posted in a while. I've been on and off track the last month or so. Lately I've been back on, which I'm happy about. I'm going on vacation in just over a week. 4 days in Myrtle Beach, a day in Florida and 4 days in Barbados. I hate that as excited as I am about this trip, I keep obsessing over the fear that I'm going to undo like 2 months worth of work in 2 weeks. I already want a Fat Tuesday smoothie at Myrtle Beach. I also want an authentic meal from Barbados, which I'm sure includes carbs. I honestly, would not be in such fear however, if those were the only two times I was going to go off plan. The problem is, I'm afraid I'll be off plan for days once I do. Idk. It's giving me a ton of anxiety and something I should be super stoked about is becoming another reminder of my weight and addictions.

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I will probably need this soon. Lol

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This is going to be my breakfast!

Bacon Wrapped Avocado

4-6 Strips of Bacon

1 Avocado

½-1 Teaspoon Chili Powder

Instructions

Heat the oven to 425

Line a baking sheet with tin foil.

Cut open the avocado and remove the pit. Slice about ¾" slices lengthwise through the avocado, and then cut through the middle to cut all of the slices in half so that you have thick chunks of avocado.

Cut each slice of bacon in 3-5 pieces and wrap each piece around the avocado. Dust with chili powder and place on the baking sheet.

Bake at 425 for 10-15 minutes. Remove from the oven to a platter and stick a tooth pick in each for serving.

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Love this!!! ❤

YAAASSS 🙌🏻

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February 17, 2017 Pre Workout Vlog

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Summary for 2/16/17

Workout: Insanity Max 30- Cardio Challenge. I’m also about to hit this workout I saw on YouTube that’s supposed to define or give you a crease under your booty. 😈💪👙

Nutrition: B: 3 egg omelet with 2 ounces of uncured ham, some onion and mushrooms with a slice of mozzarella S: A TBS and a half of almond butter L: Some left over chicken fried cauliflower. I forgot to take a picture. I just smashed. Lol D: Bulletproof Tea

Water Intake: Plenty.

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Things I Learned Today

1. Keto has some real haters. Lol. Idk why, though I can guess. *Kanye Shrug* 2. You can make your booty bigger by making the muscles bigger! This is awesome news for people like me whose only booty comes from fat, not biological design and we all know you can't control where you lose fat. We can only sculpt our muscles and a bigger gluteus maximus muscle means a bigger booty. And even better news for me, my hips are wide so that means I don't have to work as hard! Though I imagine it'll take me at least 6 months of targeted sculpting after the weight comes off. 3. I love HIIT and weightlifting, but I'm fat and my joints and sciatica can't handle it all the time. I spent some time today researching HIIT vs Cardio vs Weight/Strength Training and I came up with the following conclusion : Just move! 😊 4. I'm losing slow, but I'm losing and that's better than nothing or gaining.

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February 16, 2017

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My beachbody timeline. Seeing me trending down over the years is good! Making minimal moves over the last few months... well... down is better than up, so I won’t complain.

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Progress Pics, the last week of November, December and January. I see no difference. LOL.

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It’s Been Too Long

It’s been forever since I posted. I only got in a few good ones and just stopped. In my defense, I tried to upload a video a few weeks ago and it got deleted and I was just like “I quit!”. LOL. I have been trying and not too much avail it seems lately. My 20s end on Saturday. Gosh. That’s crazy. That decade literally flew by. I don’t know how I feel about it. Not necessarily because I’m not where I want to be, but I never thought I would reach this point and not have my brother here. I’m just kind of wondering when the feeling of hoping that it isn’t real goes away. It’s been a year and a half. Really conscious and subconscious? We’re just going to keep playing these games with ourselves? This will be the year of letting go for me. I’m letting go of caring about my feelings. I’m letting go of these pounds. I’m letting go of caring about things, situations and people that are out of my control or that don’t care about me. This year, for me, is all about continuing to rebuild and living. It’s crazy and sad to think that I’m still mentally, emotionally and financially trying to recover from 2015 and it’s now 2017. Anywho, back to my purpose for being here. Goals, goals goals. Okay, so last weekish, I did it. I hit 219. I got to 220 (even an extra pound lower). Today I am teetering at 222.0. While this is awesome because it’s been a long time coming, I can certainly do better. I’m aiming to loose 7 pounds (it was 10, but I’m trying to be realistic) before March 5th (the big 30! Woot Woot!). I’m not seeing much of a difference in my side by side progress pics. I think that can be attributed to a few things. I am not in the same clothes or the same place when I take the pictures. Also, My distance from the mirror keeps changing. My goal before my end of March pic is to find a designated place to take progress photos. Maybe I will have Ashly or Aliyah take them. I can pick a wall at their apartment and try to mark where they stand to take the picture (like lining up with the hallway opening or something). I also have to pick something that I will take them in. I kind of like my workout shirt (yeah, I only have one official workout shirt right now. Don’t judge. Those things are expensive to just go sweat in) and my yoga pants, but my yoga pants are actually becoming too big for me (yay! NSV) and you cant see my legs in them for real. Maybe I’ll start doing my bathing suit. I found it. It’s bright too so it will definitely accentuate my fat when rolled and tucked. LOL. I need to get a sports bra and some biking or workout shorts and do it in that. I know I’m not going to magically shrink out of a sports bra or workout shorts anytime soon. Those things have some serious stretch and start off looking like you can’t get in to them anyway. LOL. Maybe I’ll look up some stuff for that. LOL. I had 8 thin Oreos 2 nights ago. I wouldn’t be tripping so hard about it if 2 days ago, I hadn’t decided that I would go hard to solidly get in to the 210′s. And now I’m BARELY in ketosis. IDK. I was craving sweets yesterday (because of the relapse of course) and had some almond butter to try to crush it. I was trying to go to bed early (to no avail) so I didn’t want to do BPC or BP Tea. I would think I would still be in a deeper ketosis though. I didn’t have 2 tablespoons, I didn’t have a whole serving of nuts and other than that yesterday I ate an omelette (3 eggs, mozz, ham, onion and mushrooms) and chicken fried cauliflower. Idk. It may only be trace amounts as a result of the day before yesterday. Anywho, I need to get my life and I’m seriously considering the egg fast, but read that some people get headaches from it. I don’t have time for headaches for real. I’m thinking of doing it for 3 days however and seeing where it gets me. I want to go to LA for my birthday!!! I don’t know what my funds will be looking like however. I’m frustrated, just a bit with life right now to say the least. I miss being able to go to church. I can’t wait until I’m back rolling again. But even that’s going to cost a pretty penny. Sheesh. Anywho, I’m going to upload my progress pics for the last 3 months. They all happen within the last 4 days of the month. The first was at the end of November, when I decided I was going to get serious, at least for a month and decided if I wanted to make keto a lifestyle. Then next was the end of December and the last was the end of January. There’s almost a 20 pound difference between the first and last and 2 pants sizes, but the pictures look the same. LOL. But I’m going to keep pushing anyway.