Blogmas Day 7: It’s my birthday ðŸŽ‚

Happy birthday to me 🥳.  It was important to me to get back to being me.  I set a goal to be back at a certain weight by my birthday and I’m so proud of myself that I did it! Yay me!

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After my dad passed away, I began to comfort eat and gained about 20 pounds.  Many people said the extra weight looked good on me, but I personally did not feel comfortable.  When I got engaged, I lost 15 pounds by the time I got married.  I actually felt comfortable even with the still extra 5 pounds.  Then our fur baby passed away over a year ago and I became sad again, amongst other things.  I gained back the 10 pounds.  I really became unhappy with my body.  This was the heaviest I ever been in my life.  I was lonely in the house, as there was no more Wally.  My husband was working those long shifts as a nurse.  So all I did was work.  And my commute to work was long and stressful. By the time I arrived home, the first thing I would do is get a snack because I was starving.  I would eat late because I wanted to eat dinner with my husband.


So my husband hearing me complain about my weight suggested I rejoin the gym mainly to get out of the house. I did and that started my journey back to becoming me again…
Btw, this is definitely a new me.  I would have never posted a picture of myself in a bikini.  Another… Yay Me!

Let the Challenge Begin…

My birthday is officially 90 days from today.  I have decided to do a customized 90-day challenge.  The goal is to accomplish those challenges by December 7th.

What are those challenges you are asking???

Well, let me backtrack for a moment.  Recently, I completed the 75-day soft challenge.  Well, it was really a 100-day soft challenge, as I extended it for an extra 25 days.  I enjoyed it so much that I wanted to do another challenge.  I, however, wanted to customize it to goals that I have.  I want to achieve and work towards certain things in my life.  So what better way for me to focus on it?  Challenge myself.  I noticed that when I have a challenge, I work hard to complete it.

Since my birthday is coming up in 3 months, I wanted to challenge myself to complete things I’ve either been working on or things I said I wanted to do before the end of 2025.  So here are the challenges I need to complete:

  1. Reopen my online jewelry boutique
  2. Learn to control stress
  3. Lose a specified amount (5 lbs left to my goal weight)
  4. Read a total of 15 books (just completed book #8 and started June 3rd)
  5. Get pregnant ( the most important challenge I want to achieve)
  6. Get higher paying campaigns
  7. Post a blog once a week
  8. Post on Instagram and TikTok at least 3 times a week
  9. Save a specified amount of money
  10. Journal everyday

I feel pretty confident in my quest to complete my challenges successfully.  As I previously said, let the challenge begin…

Until next time, talk to you soon 💋

Blogmas: Chapter 2

February 2024 has its highs, but mostly lows.  The high is that we celebrated my brother’s birthday. 

The biggest low of February, losing  our fur baby, Wally on 2/2/24 🥹

And not to mention, my daddy would have been turning 70 o 2/25/24 🥹