March 2013
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25 and feelin' fine!
I weigh in today and after a horrible past two weeks of WW, I step on the scale to find out I lost 3.8 pounds this week! Which put me at the 25 pound mark…I have lost a total of 25.2 pounds so far!!! AHHHH happiest girl alive right now! and SO proud of myself. I think I am about 10-15 pounds max away from my goal!!!! =)
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“Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you...”
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unexpected.
These past three days were exactly that… unexpected. I heard from a friend of many years that I have lost touch with over the years. My family has always been close family friends with his. The first thing he says to me is of how beautiful he always thought I was but was way to scared or unsure as to how or when to tell me, but got the guts to do so that night. Completely blindsided and...
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so yea, didn’t go to my meeting. shame on me. i weighed myself at home on my WW scale and it says I went up just under a pound. Okay, not that bad. We all have an off week. I am already doing SO much better this week! Tracking Everything and eating a lot more healthier with more control! My mind needs to be there because if not, my stomach will soon be! ;-)
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Bad Week
Ok, so I have a confession. This past week was probably one of my worst weeks on Weight Watchers. I don’t know what it was but my brain and stomach were working together against me! They were telling me, “eat that chocolate,” “c’mon, another piece won’t hurt,” “it’s not that many points… don’t even bother tracking!” Seriously,...
all i want to do this week is EAATTTT!! why?!?!?! ugh gotta stop munching!!
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HIIT
High Intensity Interval Training.
It’s a new month and time for a new workout. I run at least 6 miles a day 6-7 days a week. Since i have just about 10-15 pounds left to go for my weight-loss goal, it is getting harder to lose those pounds, especially at a pace I was losing the past 22 pounds. I’ve done my research and HIIT seems to be the key! High intensity for short amounts of...
February 2013
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Birthday = Break (UPDATE)
I weight in and……..
I LOST .4! it’s not a lot but it’s still losing! and I still drank and ate what I wanted this weekend! SUCH a great feeling! Now, I am at a total weight-loss of 22.6 POUNDS! :) can’t wait for this week!
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Birthday = Break
So this past Sunday was my 23rd Birthday! And, it was a great one! Saturday night I went into the city. I ate good all day and for dinner, I had a glass of prosecco, salmon, and some cake! (hehe) I knew going into my birthday weekend that I was going to be tempted to eat not as I am used to on a weekly basis with weight watchers and was definitely going to drink. But that’s okay....
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WW Update
Up until now, I have currently lost a total of 22.2 pounds! I am still in shock to say that I have lost that much in almost 5 months! It has been hard work and dedication, but that is what I am..dedicated. Dedicated to being fit, healthy, skinny, a newer and better version of me. I still have more to go, but I’m more than halfway there! And, I can’t wait to see the results!
I am...
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Major Milestone
Yesterday, around 10:15 I walked into my Weight Watchers meeting and stepped on the scale. The results brought me almost to tears. This past week, I lost a total of 5 pounds! This alone felt amazing because I have been in a rut the past couple of weeks with not losing much and not being in love with the program like I used to be. This past week, I tracked EVERYTHING and it paid off. Tracking...
January 2013
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“Cooking is Love made Visible.”
December 2012
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Cheers to a new me in 2013!
I am especially excited for the new year! Going into this new year, I am a completely different person from who I was last new year’s. Firstly, I am 17 pounds lighter! :) I am so proud of all the hard work I have done to achieve a much healthier lifestyle with the help and thanks of Weight Watchers. I now am much more active, running 5.5 miles a day, and am much happier with myself!...
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small, MEDIUM, large
Today is a big day. And no, not because it marks the end of the world according to the Mayans. Today is a big big day, especially for my best friend B because she is going to visit a medium today. Four years ago this coming February, my friend B had lost her mother to breast cancer, as it was her second time fighting the horrific disease. It was one of the most tragic and saddest days of my life...
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WW Update
It’s been about 11 weeks since I’ve started weight watchers and I could not be more proud of myself and the results I have seen. I have lost a total of 12.6 pounds so far! I can’t believe it. It’s the lightest I have been since my sophomore year in college and have never felt so good about myself. My exercise routine is at a point it has never been at. I run 5 miles a day,...
September 2012
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WW
I’ve decided I’m going to start Weight Watchers.
August 2012
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You've got mail!
The other day, I received my official college diploma! Even with such a stamp of approval (literally), I can’t but still not accept the fact that I have graduated college. It is all in latin, most of which I can barely understand. But that is how I feel about this whole graduation thing - I can’t seem to translate it into words, to grasp those words into my hands so that I can feel,...
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“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
– Dr. Seuss
July 2012
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Twin A & Twin G
My relationship with my twin, A, brother is absolutely crumbling, and I am not sure how much longer I can take this. All I know is that when I was away at school, I was not upset all the time, or stressed due to our relationship, or I felt that I had to walk on eggshells or not be myself and do or say what I wanted. Before December 12, 2007, my relationship with my brother was like any other...
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On your mark, get set...GO!
Today I am starting a race..actually scratch that. It’s more of a journey. A journey to lose weight and be happy with the way I look and feel.
This morning, I realized that I get things done when I see reality, what’s in front of me. I react quickly to it and if I am constantly exposed to it, I will react to it even more. I will build up more of a motivation due to the constant...
“Romantic, One in a Million, Amore…. ROMA.”
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3 boys. Tuesday. 1 month.
For the past month, I had three of my best guy friends from Italy stay at my house. Although our friendship was already strong before they arrived, it grew even stronger those 31 days they spent here in America. Having them around 24/7 came to be both a pleasure and a pain, but a pain that I would rather always have than not have them at all. Saying goodbye to them about 2 hours ago hit me harder...
June 2012
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psoriasis has actually made progress, and in the right direction! it seems like it is slowly getting better! less and less red and more towards my skin color and my skin is smooth! :)
ps - i NEED to get back to cooking! I miss it so much!
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so I went to see my dermatologist...
and he basically saw how much worse my psoriasis got since I last saw him a year ago. I also asked him if he could refill my perscription of Taclonex, an oinment with a very strong dosage of cortizone in it. Though my psoriasis does get better with it, being less red, flaky, and painful, it is a pain to put on. It is greasy as can be and stains my clothes and any cloth that comes in its path....
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It is time. FINALLY
It is time that I revamp my life. In all senses. I have graduated college, an amazing accomplishment for myself as well as my family. Now that I am in debt and unemployed (YAY….not!), it’s time to finally focus on me. My psoriasis is not getting better and I want to do my best to try and rid or at least get a good grip on controlling this ugly thing. My weight…yeah always been a...
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this psoriasis is getting completely out of hand. I’m home. Done with college. Relieved of that stress from school. And it’s getting worse. And it’s the summer which helps, supposedly. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
May 2012
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“La vita è breve… infrangi le regole, bacia lentamente, ama veramente, ridi...”
– Something I try to live by :)
“Life is short… break the rules, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably. Never regret something that once made you smile.”
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Job Searching
Boy is that a pain. Since I just graduated college and am currently still unemployed, I am making it a point to job search every night and apply to some jobs on a daily basis. Hopefully, at this rate, SOMEONE will contact me…
WISH ME LUCK!
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Bye College. Hello Real World.
This Saturday, May 19 I graduated college.
Woah…did I just say that?! I am still in complete denial that I have graduated college and I will NOT be going back in the fall. I honestly am really upset leaving college, my sweet place, my haven. I lived there for the past four years with 5 amazing girls that I got to call my best friends biddies.
I am now home, depressed, unemployed, and...
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Mother's Day
I want to take the time to write this post in wishing all the mother’s around the world a very Happy Mother’s Day, especially to my mother.
When my mother found out that she was pregnant, with twins, her world flipped upside down a million times. But none of that mattered because she successfully conceived not one, but two lives that she can call her own. Some call twins a...
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This song came on when I was in the shower today....
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I'm in a really BAD BAD mood right now
so I am going to go bake.
Hopefully my panic attack and this pit in my stomach will go away.
I wish I wasn’t so sensitive/emotional to everything. Damn Pisces.
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I'm not ready yet.
When anyone mentions college, I get a rush of mixed emotions. Sad. Happy. Nervous. Anxious. Scared. Ready. Unprepared.
Tomorrow is May 1. It marks the 18 days left until graduation. Never have I ever thought that I would be in the same position as the seniors that have graduated years prior. It seemed so far away. I always thought, “I have SO much time. I wont be there for a long...
April 2012
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"He is scum."
So this weekend was very interesting, for both good and bad reasons. This past Thursday was senior night. All the seniors dress up and basically just party together. At the senior night “dance” I saw this one kid, A, that I have become friends with and flirt with. We ended up hanging out the entire night and I ended up hooking up with him. That night he told me he liked me (which I...
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Update: Putting myself out there more
A few weeks ago I posted about how my roommates discussed my lack of boys in my life (friends as well as boyfriends). They all said I need to put myself out there more.
Funny thing is, later that week, we went to a bar in the city. At some point in the night, I started talking to this boy W. Graduated from Princeton in 2008, consultant, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, now living in NYC. Very...
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Distance is a brutal and ugly thing.
Last night, my two cousins, aunt, and & uncle hopped on plane back to Rome, Italy as their time here in New York with all of us suddenly ended. The time flew by so fast that their departure crept up on us without us even noticing. I am usually pretty okay with goodbyes, especially if they are leaving me. When I have to leave somewhere or someone behind, I get very upset. However, this time, it...
March 2012
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You need to put yourself out there more.
This is what my roommates told me last night as we sipped wine and talked about my problematic love life and lack of guy friends.
It is known that I don’t really hook up with many guys. It’s not that I don’t want to, but because for one, I am picky—I cannot hook up with a guy I am not attracted to, two, I don’t drink often and not one to get drunk often either which...
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one of the most annoying things ever
(other than psoriasis) is losing a sneeze!
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Psoriasis Pain :(
I just got back from Punta Cana almost 2 weeks ago and I was so excited because the sun did wonders for my psoriasis and skin. I was tan :) but my psoriasis seemed to really go down in swelling as well as red in color. It did burn a little which I should have expected from the nightly ointment I apply before bed, making it more sensitive to the sun. It was painful for a bit but it soon subsided.
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Clash of the Personalities
It is my fourth year in college and I will be graduating this May (YIKES!). I can’t believe the time has flown by this fast. I still remember moving in freshman year like it was yesterday. Nonetheless, I have had some amazing memories and become friends with some amazing people, 5 girls to be precise, that have remained my best friends at college throughout the four years and with whom I...
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Games of Hunger
So tonight my friend and I are going to go see the premiere of the Hunger Games. I am so excited to see the movie after I loved reading the first book. All of my roomies and I are in a quick race to finish the second book so the other could start reading it. It’s quite funny. What is also funny as well as ironic is how this new sensation, the Hunger Games, represents my struggle with hunger,...
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I've got a BIG problem.
my BIG problem: my weight
Throughout my life, I have never been skinny. I can only truly and genuinely say that I was skinny and happy with the way I looked in my freshman year of high school. I dont know if it was puberty, being active with sports and dance at the same time, or because I had a surgery that resulted in some weight loss. Either way, I was skinny and I liked my body. I was happy — I...
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The Ugly Truth.
This is the first time I am posting this on the internet and for others to know, but I have suffer from Psoriasis. It is an auto-immune disease that causes lesions to form all over your body, varying in size and quantity, that become red, itchy, and flaky. It looks like dry skin but it is actually an overgrowth of skin cells due to inflammation. Since I started college in 2008, I experienced my...
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“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
— Eleanor...”
