Curvilous!

First and foremost...It's only about time I got this thing up and going!

With that being said... HI! :D 

I have been working on getting one thing up and going at a time. And now that I am finally able to work on the next step in my beauty career, it makes me a very happy camper!

For those that have been already watching my YouTube Channel, know that I've made hints that I'm a curvy girl! But I know that you haven't had a chance to see me...just my face. "So, how can you be curvy if we've never seen you?"

Good question! I made mention that I've lost around 60 pounds, which in the last year, I had. But this is something that I've had to deal with...my whole life! Growing up I was always made fun of for my weight. But we're not going to get into that! I'm just going to tell you...It's okay! I love me for me...and my husband loves me for me (which is even more awesome)! And I plan on posting pictures of my journey (from this point on) to becoming healthier. Noticed I said Healthier and not thinner? ;)


My channel isn't just going to be about makeup and those types of beauty stuff...but everything in beauty! I'm going to be honest, my fashion taste isn't the best, so we will just skip on that part...but I'll go into more things that help make me feel awesome and beautiful.

Don't get me wrong, must of the stuff on there will be about makeup and tutorials...but I want to dive in a little deeper. Go further than some of the others out there! Because I have noticed one, and ONE, thing. Most of these girls are really pretty and only do makeup and fashion things. Mind, there are several exceptions, but for the most part...that's it!

This is a place were I plan on putting everything...everything that I think is fantastic and awesome and just plain beautiful! From doing certain makeup looks and tips to...tattoo ideas/designs, art, music...family gatherings, pictures...you name it!

I will try to post as many pictures, and posts in general, as I can!
 

 

 

 Here are a few pictures I have to compare the journey that I have already started to become healthier. In the top photo, it was taken at Halloween in 2010, I had already tried several different methods of weight loss that just seemed to not be working. I was going to Curves regularly, and this was right before I joined Weight Watchers. Even after joining with them, and was with them for almost a year, I managed to only go down 20 pounds. 

By this time, it was four months until the wedding...and I just wasn't going down fast enough (at least, for me). So I went to a doctor and started taking a diet pill...which worked! In four months time, I dropped almost 40 pounds. It made me not hungry, I drank LOADS of water, and gave me energy. My only problem that I had with it, was that I wasn't getting the sleep I needed...

Day of the wedding. 

The month before the wedding, I went and had my dress altered. Because I knew that from the time I bought it, back in October of 2011, having the first real trying on around Christmas that I was going to need it altered. This was the first time ever in my life that I was happy with my progress! I managed to loss not only almost a full person, but a total of 8 inches! 8 INCHES! I could not believe it!


These next two photos are both from the day of the wedding. Both were talking on May 5, 2012. You can see the massive change in my face and just the way that I'm carrying myself in the bottom. I began to feel like a normal sized person! And that was amazing!

Girls, please don't kill me!

But once the wedding was over with, I still took the diet pills, but not every day like I once had. Mainly due to the fact that we had bought a house and the pills themselves were expensive. For a one month use, it was $45. Which is completely crazy expensive when you are living pay check to pay check as it is.

February 2013

So, I slacked off. In a just under a years time, I had gained 10 pounds back. Which is extremely good, even for all the crap we had been eating over that time period. Trust me, sometimes it's easier and cheaper to buy the bad stuff than it is the good stuff. 

In March of this past year, my neighbor and I decided that we wanted to change some of our life style habits! We were going to start working out, from just getting together and doing a couple squats and stuff until we found a place we liked working out (or until she heard of the pole classes started back up). So, her friend offered her and I a chance to come and workout at this place down the street from us. We go...and die! I've never hurt so bad EVERYWHERE my entire life...and it wasn't just a days worth of hurt, but a week. A full WEEK of...WHY IS THE POTTY SO FREAKISHLY CLOSE TO THE FLOOR?!?! It hurt so bad...but I must be a glutton for punishment...because a week later I was back at it.

I do not enjoy working out. I would rather sit at home, doing anything, and I mean ANYTHING, else besides working out. But I've stuck with it. I still don't enjoy it, but I'm going 2 times a week now. When we first started, I had ZERO upper body strength...I couldn't even plank, so I held the pushup position instead. It's been four months now that I've been going, and I can hold a plank for almost a full minute. Talk about building some...AWESOMENESS! 

I'm over the point of just losing weight. That, I don't even care about anymore. I know that I'll always be a bigger gal, but that doesn't mean that I have to be unhealthy!

Okay, enough with the ranting about my weight story and as my neighbor say, journey through hell (she really does not like that place, lol). I will continue to post on my success (and even a few fails) along the road!