Just a little bit about me!

OK so now I have got a few "how to" posts up, and still have a little time before the hubby gets up so I thought I would just write a little about my life and such. So my husband Brandon recently got a great job as a diesel mechanic in Wyoming. So we packed up our entire life and moved 2000 miles away from out little home town in Arkansas. I was a little scared at first, being as the farthest I have moved from my parents and family was 30 miles away and pretty much seen them at least once a week since I was born. But now that we are here and settled down I absolutely love it! I am going to the local college and just finished my first semester! I am also taking a few summer classes. I know my minor is going to be business however, I am not dead set on a major although I do have a pretty good idea of what I would like to do. Brandon and I try to be pretty active as far as getting out and exploring our town, I think that this has really helped me in adjusting to the move. One of my main fears was getting lost and not knowing how to get back home. So we get out and explore and drive to new places together so I feel like I really know where I am going when I set out to go somewhere. This has also been helpful in meeting new people. The one thing that I do miss about Arkansas is being able to drive 5 minutes to go shopping, here it is a good 2 hours to get to a mall or even a chain restaurant. We have however, found several great restaurants that we love not far from home. Some other things we have done to get to know our town better is going to the local attractions, like the circus, the different parks, a rodeo, we also took a drive to Devils Tower which was beautiful. Today we are actually planning on going to a car show and going to check out the local lakes. So overall I think the move has been wonderful for us and I can not wait to see what the future brings. Some more about me... I love Mario, Mario 64, Super Mario World, Super Mario Brothers Wii, just about all of them :D. The problem is I will be stuck in front of the t.v for days if I start playing any of them! I love love love movies, mainly movies from my childhood that bring back good memories, but I am a movie freak. I also love netflix! Not so much for the movies but for the t.v show selection that they have. I am addicted to Secret Life, Pretty Little Liars, The Lying Game, and Make it or Break it was one of my favorites! Now I would have to say the Big Bang Theory is my most favorite, and I often find myself watching repeats lol. As I mentioned in my about me section, I love to take pictures and that is probably my favorite thing to do with my spare time. I like to take pictures of anything and everything, I love to scrapbook as well. I am also a Christmas NUT I love to decorate for Christmas, and have a habit of buying too many Christmas decorations! Now I also mentioned in my about me that I am a food nut, really I love to cook, I like to cook anything and everything and especially new things. There is nothing more exciting than being absolutely terrified of what something will taste like in that moment when you can't recall if you did exactly what the recipe said, or if you changed it up just a little and are worried if it will be worth eating and then when you finally taste it, it is better than you could have ever imagined! That to me is just the best feeling. Now before I got married, almost 2 years ago, I put on about 25-30 pounds over a 5 month period. So my main goal when we got to Wyoming was to lose the weight. It made me crazy that I went from a size 0 to a size 6 in just a few months. So I will say I have tried all kinds of diets in the past 6 months; counting calories, a weight watchers simulator, the Acai pill (which only made me sick), and the Special K Challenge. But the thing that honestly has worked best for me is limiting what I eat and exercise. So instead of counting calories, I cook~ I generally try to make it healthy, but not overly so, and do the portions where you put half your plate veggie a fourth protein, and a fourth grain, I think is how it is, now this does not always work, but in that case I eat until I feel full and do not push myself, I also DO NOT drink carbonated drinks, I drink water, diet green tea(sometimes), milk, or orange juice, and then every night with dinner I have 1 8oz glass of sweet tea, and I always have a glass of water with it, so when I drink all of my tea then instead of getting up to get more I immediately have the water. Some examples of what I eat daily would be, a toaster strudle for breakfast with milk or orange juice, or special k cereal, for lunch, I have soup (chicken noodle, broccoli cheese, tomato), or a turkey or ham sandwich, if I grab fast food for lunch I try to make it something small like the little cheese burger at McDonald's with a small order of fries and a bottle of water, or I get subway. Typical dinners may be homemade pizza (2 slices), grilled chicken salad, chicken and rice (usually the rice a roni recipe), grilled chicken and veggies, "hobo" dinners, grilled tuna sandwiches with sunchips, chicken enchiladas and rice, meatloaf with 2 veggies, turkey spaghetti, taco salad (with turkey), pork roast, hamburger steak, etc... So I do not generally cut out tasty food to lose weight, when I have tried, I often find that I am hungry later, usually while I am trying to sleep, and then I just gain more weight( this is what happened on the special k challenge, I could not stand all of the sweets for one, but I ate what the plan said anyway and then around midnight or so I would be starving, by then end of the challenge I had actually gained 4 pounds.) So anyways I watch my portions as well as exercise. I try to walk 2.5-3 miles a day a couple times a week (usually around 3 times) but I like to try and make it 4 a week if possible, and then I also have an ab circle pro, and I know several people say that it does not work however, if you use it properly I believe it does. I do not only do it for 3 minutes a day I do 5 minutes and am working my way up to 10 minutes right now 3 days a week but hopefully will get to 4 a week with it as well. Now doing all of this believe it or not in the past 2 months I have lost 10 pounds, and gone from a size 6 back down to a 4. But, just because this works for me does not mean it will work for someone else, I am just stating what has helped me to lose weight. I still have a ways to go, but I am proud of myself for the time being. So anyways, I think that is enough about me for one day! Everyone have a great day!!

~Kimberly