Kayla Shay - Fanart, Fanfiction & More

Remember how I was doing the Biggest Loser thing at work? Well, it's been just over a year since that started and I've lost a total of 60 pounds to date. :-)

I want to lose about 15-20 pounds from where I am currently at. Which shouldn't be too difficult.

I decided I would share some pictures with you behind the cut. I did a before/after collage as well as some shots of me in my new dress I wore out to dinner last night.

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For those wondering how I did it... Well, I didn't follow any of the diet plans that are out there. I did my own thing.

The first thing I did was looked at what I was eating. I stopped eating fast food every day for lunch. I'm talking things like big chicken finger dinners from Sonic (with soda), fish dinners (fried/greasy) from Captain D's, burgers, etc. I started taking my lunch to work. Things like soup, TV dinners that Weight Watchers put out like Smart Ones Pizza Minis. I lost 5 pounds the first week with just that.

Then I started drinking water. Lots and lots of water.

I also started eating more a day, but watching the calorie count. I would have apple sauce in the morning, then lunch, then more apple sauce in the afternoon and then dinner. Mix things like carrots, etc.

I didn't really change my dinner habits. Just watched the calories a bit more. I also cut out a lot of snacking I found myself at night while at the computer. Things like bags of chips and such.

I still eat desserts (had something called a boat sinker last night... death by chocolate) and pies and things. Just watch it and don't over indulge.

Then I started exercising. I got a gym membership for a year. I did cardio mixed with weight training. Cardio was every day 35-40 minutes on the elliptical or treadmill. Weight training was every other day and I followed a routine I set up with the free training session I got when I joined the gym.

This May, I dropped my gym membership and now I walk. I walk at least 2 miles almost every day. Sometimes a bit more. And I haven't had a soda since January. :-)

So that's how I did it and now I'm maintaining / losing a pound or so a week.

My boss rocks! :-)

I got third place in the Biggest Loser contest, but he doubled the prizes. So instead of $250, I got $500!

:-)

For the contest, I lost 35.4 pounds. My goal was 62.2 pounds, so that put my percentage to my ideal weight at the time we started at 56.91%.

I was 4/10 of a pound from having 2nd place...

However, I lost the most weight of anyone participating. :-)

So now I have some money for Florida in a week and a half (Yay! Florida!) and for some new clothes!

:-)

Passed the halfway point at 31.2 pounds! :-)

Well, the yard sale is over and I survived. Yay!

I did get sunburned however. But only my burned lips really bother me, the rest is okay.

I made around $230!!! Woo!!!

So I treated myself tonight and went shopping and spent half of it on some clothes that actually fit me! I was wearing 18 women's size clothes that were getting a bit snug when I started the weight loss deal back at the end of May / first part of June. Now I'm getting 14 Petites (and I found 14 Petite Shorts which was even better)!!

I went to Wal-Mart first and didn't find much I was happy with. I gambled on Kohl's and struck gold with a sale they were having and found their Petite section... I love that there is a Petite section.

So I got a new pair of pants and two new shirts from there and saved $50 on them from the sale. :-)

Other than that, all is going well. I have a question for people though:

Do you have a fic, more than one fic or an author that you use as your procrastination place? I do. I figured this out during the move and the yard sale prep.

Right now, my procrastination author is xanthelj and all her NCIS fics.

My other procrastination original fiction series is The Slave Breakers by maculategiraffe.

Between those two, I can procrastinate for a long, long time. :-)

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And I dropped a couple pounds from last week without making it to work out and eating fast food this weekend. I guess moving (especially from a 2nd floor apartment) is a work out all on its own. :-)

And yesterday, my mom was laughing because I started out in jeans and I had carried several things to load in the van, all the while tugging my pants up. Finally she told me to find something else and I was like... first, where are my clothes and second, um... I'm running out of options that fit.

So I will have to go clothes shopping soon.

:-)

So far, so good. I'm loosing 2-3 pounds a week. And that's starting to increase with my working out.

I'm doing cardio via the treadmill and elliptical thingy every day for 35-40 minutes. (if I'm watching a show that's about to end, I'll stay on at a low setting until it is over...)

Monday, Wednesday and Fridays, I do the weight training along with the cardio.

I've also been doing the ab bench thing every day. I'm up to 75 ab crunches on the bench each day. They're getting easier now... :-)

Let's do a rundown of the positives and negatives...

Positive
I've lost 12lbs since I started eating better and working out!!

Negative
I have wimpy triceps. That's the only weight device thingy that kills me to do it.

Positive
I had lunch with Granny (my dad's mom) and one of my multitudes of cousins today.

Negative
Granny was in visiting because a great uncle of mine passed away.

Positive
I've written 10,100 words for my Letters to Home series and there is still more to come.

NegativePositive
I'm having issues writing my ncis_ficathon fic because of the prompts I received... *sigh* Thanks to triskellion I redirected my misguided bunny and now have 700 words with quite a bit more to go! And I'm liking it! Yay!

Positive
I got to watch NCIS while working out today. :-)

Negative
01x06 High Seas was coming on at the *end* of my workout. *pout*

Positive
Being called Ziva is a bad thing at our office. It translates to slut. There's a story behind that.

Negative
I got ticked again at Ziva while watching 05x02 Family because she could dish it out to Tony but couldn't take it in return.

Positive
The iPod is slowly coming back to life.

Negative
The reason why the iPod is slowly coming back to life is because I dropped it in a toilet at the workout place. Yes, a toilet. *heavy sigh* at least it was a clean toilet

Positive
Tony / Michael Weatherly fans, look below the cut...

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