Wrap Yourself ~ Slim & Sassy Body Wrap

It seems like body wraps are featured at a booth during every festival or street fair I've been to in the past 2 years.  I recently came across a recipe for making your own body wrap using doTERRA's Essential Oils! 

I have never done a body wrap. Three babies later, I am willing to do just about anything to get rid of the baby weight I still have.  We're talking about the baby weight that has hung around from my first baby...who will be 10 years old this December.  Yes, it is shameful...well, more like frustrating.  Really frustrating. I've exercised, dieted and still am in a battle to lose the last 15 remaining pounds of baby weight.
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Weight Loss Progress! 4 weeks

Yes, it's Monday and I am ECSTATIC!

Why, you ask?

 

The magic number of 211.

Look!

 

 

(I just realized that I forgot to write in my blood pressure on the 13th...138/86)
 

After juicing, doing smoothies and revamping my eating habits I have been rewarded with a 7 pound weight loss!!!  That's not a ton of weight being kissed bye-bye, but I do know that when you lose weight gradually then you are more likely to keep it off. And that's exactly what I'm planning on doing...Keeping It OFF!

Weightloss Wagon…Where’d you go?! ~ Week 10.5

Alright, I’ve been avoiding posting anything about my “Battling The Bulge” for a few weeks…mostly because I frankly fell off the weightloss wagon. That wagon was still moving, hit a bump (namely the 4th of July), and I fell flat on my cushy tushy.

There is good news though…despite my fall and disregard for all things I should be doing to get back on board, I have not gained any weight! This morning the horrid scale in my bathroom showed that I was still at 223.5 lbs. I’LL TAKE IT! Are you kidding me?! There was so much gratitude flowing from me simply for the fact that I wasn’t seeing something like 230lbs staring me back in the face...

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Week 6 ~ Taking A Scale Break

Alright...I've decided that I'm not weighing in this week...perhaps that darned scale is causing a mental block which is causing a fat loss block. I don't know, but I'm going to give myself one week off of weighing in...and just continue to push on toward a svelter me.

When I weighed in last Friday, I was not a happy camper. That darned scale let me know that I was at 224lbs. Not what I wanted to see...but probably totally accurate since we indulged in some Chinese food the night before. I was a good girl though, said no to the appetizer and ate small portions of my favorite orange chicken & sesame beef...no rice and very little chow mien...

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One Very Tardy Update ~ Week 4 1/2

Alright, I am so very ridiculously late on doing any updates on my battle against the bulge. So for that, I apologize to others that are looking for someone to partner with along the war path. I have not been a good weight loss partner. Let me just bring everything up to speed here....

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Week 2 Update ~ AGH!

There's just nothing other than "AGH!" that describes how I feel about this past week. There really wasn't any battle in keeping my eating right where it needed to be. Oh alright, there was one day where Charming & I decided to not follow things exactly right. But it wasn't really thatbad. Just a little bad. (I try to convince myself of this all the time) But it could have been so much worse. I went ahead and made country fried steak, with gravy, potatoes and white corn. Now before you go gasping like mad, the gravy actually wasn't as bad as you might think. I found a way to avoid using flour to make the gravy!!! Xanthan Gum is now my new best friend. :)

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Battling The Bulge...Again

Alright, the weather has shifted and summer is right around the corner...and my blood pressure has been way too high. It's time to get to it and begin my battle against the bulge once again. Let's face it, when you haven't lost the weight after the first 30 pounds after you've had your baby...it's not an excuse after 3 1/2 years. I mean, you can't say, "Oh I just had a baby." Uh yeah...over 3 years ago.

The truth: I've been lazy and eating junk.

The other truth: I hate being one size larger than I've ever been prior to having a baby.

The other other truth: My body is really fed-up with my laziness. It's like it's screaming at me from the inside. I swear I literally hear it sometimes.


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