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Yup, that’s right!  As of a few hours ago the Koolest Loser contest was officially DONE!  Well, I know you are all wondering the outcome of such a thing….well, my partner and I did not win the trip…but we did win, and win big we did!  I have developed such great habits and I am so proud of all of my accomplishments!  On the contest in 12 weeks I lost exactly 22 lbs.  (And I fell off the wagon way more than once! - I have to admit, I haven’t been doing the exercise part…but I’m still going!)

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My partner did well.  She is a lot smaller than me to start and lost 11 lbs.  As a group of all 14 contestants we lost 292 lbs!  That’s like two seperate people! 

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I miss you all terribly…and it is going to take a long time to get back into the swing of things here.  I just moved out into a place with my son here last week, so everything is pretty much a mess everywhere!  But I will check in and see how you all are from time to time. 

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Ps - great news….I bought a Christmas party dress last week for Dec 8 party.  This summer I was a +22, and this dress is a 12!!!  YES A 12!!!!!  Right on!  I am so elated!  Sure a few lbs less will help, and also a great body briefer, but whoooyahhh I’m going to totally sex it up this season!!! (In the most G rated version possible!)  LOL!  It is long, black and strapless and has beading on it and is gathered along the side.  I’ll definately post a pic when I get all done up that day!

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Anyways off to bed right away…I will check in when I can…I’m sorry I haven’t been here for you guys…You are all so awesome!  I miss you terribly!

I miss you all terribly!  I have been super busy…haven’t we all…and haven’t been on the computer at all.  I miss you guys so much, and I’ve completely lost touch with everyone lately.  Lots of stress has entered my life, but not to worry guys…I think of you and I plow through…last week I maintained…no gain…no loss…but a lot of bad food!  This week is the turnaround and I just want to have a day to myself to reconnect with all of my buddies, my friends.  I think of you all often…I will be back, I just have to focus on some other stuff for now.  Sorry to drop off the face of the earth….you guys are so great!

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Huge hugs to all!!!  Kellie 

BUDDIES, I AM ABSOLUTELY BALLOONING WITH EXCITEMENT!!!!!!!!  Not even a few weeks ago I was going through some clothes that were to small for me to sort in bins for as I drop weight, which bin should fit next…biggest to smallest.  They all started with regular sized 18’s that were just too tight, and I figured maybe a couple of weeks will be perfect….and my 16’s were about 3″ away in the waist from even getting the button together…so I thought surely 5 weeks or more from then I’d try them on.  Well, today I was cleaning up and the bins were out in the open so I just thought…”Do I try it now, just to see how much more I have to go?”  Well, I am estatic to report that not only are my REGULAR size 18’s that were in the bin TOO BIG!!!!, but the regular size 16’s FIT ME!@!!!!!!!!!  OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!  I CAN NOT TELL YOU WHEN I LAST FIT INTO REGULAR SIZED CLOTHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  AS OF TODAY….I AM OUT OF PLUS SIZED CLOTHING ALL TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I am cold, and sick, and have NEVER BEEN HAPPIER being so miserable in all my life!!  LOL!  As I type this I am sitting in a REGULAR (NOT PLUS!!!) sized 16 skirt that I just had to try on, and it fits!!!!!!!  I know this time I WILL do it!!!  And I’ve learned so much along the way that I’m not going to gain again!  I love all you buddies who have been there for me, supporting me, especially since I’ve not been around here a lot recently since my boy went back to school!  Do you realize that you guys are the first people I told this exciting news to?  Not my mom (we are super close), not my friends here, nope….the first thing that went through my head is…”I gotta share this with my buddies!!!”  Thanks for your continued support on my journey!  I’m just about 1/2 way there, but my body image has come around full circle X 10!

LOL!  Take that for whatever you want!  I was thinking of that Shania Twain song, “Man, I feel like a woman” but today I feel like I’ve been hit by a Mack Truck!  Head cold city!!!!  It’s been hanging around for a few days, and I’ve been nursing it.  It is so cold here today, no snow but lots of rain, and we are forecasted for snow tomorrow!!!  Arghhhhh!!!!  Hopefully not, but you never know!

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So I haven’t been exercising for these past two days…and unfortunately I haven’t really been eating or drinking my water.  I KNOW I KNOW ~ BAD KELLIE!!!  After all, how do you expect to get better when you run yourself down with no nutrition.  You know sometimes when you are just so tired you have to force yourself to eat?  I know, it hardly happens to me too!  LOL!  Then wouldn’t dieting be a piece of cake!!  (bad analagy!!)  All day I’ve just had a couple of pieces of toast, some zuchinni, and light popcorn.  Ok, now that I type that I realize I’d better get off here and go get something in my tummy, or I’m really gonna feel bad!  So I’ll follow Char’s lead and go get some soup…AND YES BUDDIES, SOME WATER TOO!  (I just love you all so much, I already hear what you have to say in my head!)…and yes, I’m going to bed right away too….rest=getting better!

Well buddies, your prayers worked!  I lost 2.8 lbs this week!  And I think my partner and I lost the most weight combined this week making us the weekly challenge winner!  If that is true, then we won some steak knives.  I’m sure they are nice, but it’s just so motivating to know we came in first for once!  Especially because we have a disadvantage….the weekly challenges are won by the team that loses the most weight…not body fat.  And we are one of the smallest teams there!  Even by 100lbs in some case!  So we are sooo psyched! 

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My weigh in was 185.8lbs where last week I was 188.6lbs, and the week before 188.8lbs.  I knew I lost weight, but was frustrated because my own scale did not reflect that!  Now I realize that my scale is no longer working properly, because it hasn’t budged all week.  So to keep track with what I’ve lost so far I am subtracting approx 3.6 lbs from my “koolest loser” weight to keep with what my scale origionally said.  Oh it’s so confusing, but I want to try to keep my ticker current with what I had lost this whole time…and the scales are different!  So I guess this will keep me from weighing in every day!  Now I just have to weigh in every Wednesday and subtract 3.6lbs from it.

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I’m on a roll buddies!  I feel fantastic and I love all the support all of you give me!! Thanks so much!  I won’t be on much…but I’ll be sure to catch up on you all this weekend!

Well buddies…I’ve been trying to keep up with you all!  I am so glad that this site brought us all together.  It really is amazing.  THANKS DR. MARC FOR BUDDYSLIM!!!!!  Anyways, I decided to venture out and test the waters a bit today….I put my profile up on a dating site.  Ohhhh my stomach feels twisted already….I’m not looking for a “date” right now, but think that the communication even via email is a good thing for me right now.  It’s been well over a year since I’ve been separated and I’m just waiting for the final paperwork to go through on my divorce any time now.

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So in my “body type” description I had to choose an appropriate answer from -athletic, thin, average, a few extra lbs…well I guess you know what I picked.  No sense in lying now is there?  I mean it’s totally athletic all the way!  LOL!  No, I picked a few extra lbs…didn’t want to give anyone a false impression..and then I discussed my love for fitness.  Well, I gotta tell you that in the first hour alone I’ve gotten several responses from men who all have nice profiles for the first impression.  They are local around me and one even outright called me “gorgeous.”  Well, if that didn’t make me a giddy school girl, I don’t know what would!  I posted two pics that I have here, my new one in the black sweater, and my closeup by myself in the orange shirt.  So I think they are pretty good for giving out a first impression.  It’s really kinda weird…I haven’t done any interaction like the whole dating scene since before I met my ex over 8 years ago!  No wonder I’m kinda nervous….and very rusty!

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Anyways, tomorrow is weigh in day and pray for me buddies because I’m plateauing!  I am working out, and now pushing it harder to break through and eating properly, but in the last two weeks, all my body has done has pretty much teetered on 184, and the last 5 days it said 185 GRRRRrrrrr!  I miss the 2lbs a week loss - even then I didn’t think that was lots, but now I want it back soooooo badly!  Oh well, I’ll stick it through.  I do feel great, and lately I just feel like I’m retaining some water, so we’ll see what tomorrow brings!

Ok, so lots has happened this week, and I tried to blog earlier and then my computer deleted everything I wrote!  Arghhhh!  So I wasn’t going to retype it all and figured I’d come in here today with my update.  Ok, so first thing - Weigh In Wednesday……not so good.  I lost 0.2 lbs and 0.5% body fat…still I lost, but it was disheartening.  Not because perhaps my body is shifting, but because I really slacked on the exercise front that week!  I coasted and I’m feeling the guilt!  So, that being said, I vowed to make this week a great one!  So far so good.  My eating is great…and I did choose to cut down my carbs just a bit.  I feel like I’m eating a bit too much because when I look at my food intake now compared to WW I am eating more.  When I look at my exercise compared to WW I am exercising less.  So I am tweaking my plan a bit to include a bit more cardio and a bit less carbs..(I am not used to eating so many carbs..I know I need them, but I am eating a lot of them).  My calories average 300 more a day than when I was on WW. 

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So I worked out great this week and yesterday had a work out date with a bunch of friends.  It was great.  We are all into this big time, and I am definately less fit than they are which helps, because they have helped me train and show me new exercises.  Yesterday they killed my abs…something that I haven’t been tough on and I feel it!  It is very motivating to see someone surpass me big time in that way…because if they got there, so can I!  So we have another workout date at the gym this morning at 9 am where I have to really push it lots because….

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I am going away on a spontaneous trip to Edmonton this weekend to visit a long lost friend of mine since I was in grade school!  I hadn’t spoke to her in over a year on the phone, and I hadn’t seen her in at least 5 years.  The sad truth is, I was always thin when I knew her and she looks fantastic…and I’ve been so embarrassed about my weight that I lost touch because I didn’t want her to see me like this.  The last time she saw me, I would have been about 149lbs.  Somewhere around there.  Yesterday I talked to her on the phone and she could not imagine me at 205.  I told her I was now 184 and on my way back down and she is very encouraging.  But I think I needed to warn her somehow so I don’t see the shock on her face when she sees me at my weight right now.  I was pretty stupid to let such a petty thing come between us.  So she is taking me for a much needed night on the town….we’ll go clubbing and I haven’t done that for years and so miss it!  We are both single now too, so that will be fun…we can make complete asses of ourselves and I get to go home where nobody is the wiser!  LOL!  But I am making a plan to keep myself from sabatauging all my good work.  I may enjoy one or two - maximum- drinks and eat healthy and dance all night.

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Ok, sorry for the long blog.  Dangers of not blogging often.  So, even though I didn’t lose much this week, I feel smaller today and my nasty scale keeps jumping up to 185 again ARGHHH!  Stupid scale doesn’t realize that DOWN is the proper direction!!  LOL!  Anyways, I guess there is a reason why I feel smaller….Five lbs smaller from my last measurements, I took new ones…which I didn’t think 5 lbs would do much, but see for yourself!  The last column is me now, and I was 189 on the second last column.

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Bust……………………………………………………43″…………42.5″……..41″…….40″

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Rib cage at bra (just started taking it)……………………………………..34″…….33.5″

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Smallest part of waist…………………………….36″…………35.5″………34″……33″

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Waist at belly button………………………………45″…………43″………..42″…….41″

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Hips……………………………………………………49″………….47″………..46″…….45″

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Thigh…………………………………………………..29″………….28″……….27.5″……27″

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Calf…………………………………………………….15.25″……..15.25″…….15″…….15″

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Bicep resting…………………………………………14.25″……..13.5″……..14″…….13.25″

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Neck…………………………………………………..14″………….13.75″……..13.6″….13.5″

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For my reference, I am in a +14 size pants and regular size XL ladies shirt.

Well, today is the end of my birthday, and hence my “off” day as far as eating goes.  I didn’t really do anything wild and crazy with my menu, but I definately ate different today and I don’t feel so hot about it.  I had 5 meals today 1-cottage cheese and yogourt, 2-chicken breast and rice, 3-three oz steak and rice and zuchinni, 4- a whole tub of fat free yogourt, and 5-355grams of lobster meat and butter.  I counted the calorie intake and I’m about 150-200 more than I usually eat in a day.  The timing of my meals was scattered and not every 2-3 hours which made me feel yucky, and I ate all my lobster, when really I was fully satisfied with just 1/2 of it!  But it wouldn’t keep for tomorrow and I didn’t have anyone else to share it with.  And since it was a one time gift and supposed to be my splurge - at $30 a can - I ate it all, but really don’t want to have another day like this again, even though it is far from bad from my old days.  I just feel kinda piggy, and sluggish, I did not drink my water today and I did not get my workout in today…we were so busy going out of town shopping today…yada yada yada and other excuses!  Tomorrow I have my morning workout planned and am hitting the gym after work to double up and take this bloated feeling away!

Well, it’s still only 10:48 pm on Sept 3, but since this website is using Eastern time, it is technically Sept 4 on Buddyslim and I noticed that my age on my bio changed to 29!  So in an early way, happy birthday to me!  My dinner was fantastic last night (tonight) LOL!  I had a beautiful sirloin tip new york cut steak.  It was 350 grams, so I cut it in 3 pieces for 3 separate meals and does me well!  I also steamed some brown rice and experimented with adding lemon juice, beef oxo, and Mrs. Dash to add flavor.  I “fried” zuchinni and onions on a non-stick pan using a spray of “pam” instead of oil.  And did the same for some mushrooms and onions to top off the steak.  MMMMmmmmm!  And I ate very small portions and enjoyed every bit of it!  Even better was that I have to eat 6 small meals a day, so I had the steak dinner again 2 hours later! (I was hungry by the end of the day..wierd…but good).  I have one more steak dinner ready for tomorrow, and I bbq’d a bunch of chicken breast so I could prep some meals for tomorrow as well. 

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Anyways, after I blogged yesterday (today..) LOL - very confusing!! - I went to the grocery store to give myself the option of having some kind of “cake” or treat for my birthday.  I don’t remember the last time I really ate cake on my birthday because it always seemed by that time of the year I was on some strict eating program of some sort.  Well, I looked and looked and saw many good things, but nothing was “special” enough to warrant eating it.  I did see what looked to be an amazing “pecan, caramel, fudge cream pie/cake” but I took a quick look at the nutritional info, and 400 cal and 35grams of fat for a tiny piece made me drop it instantly!  Nothing is worth another hour on the treadmill, just to even out a piece of cake!

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But finally I did find it!  And it wasn’t at the store.  I left the store empty handed and my folks gave me some money for another trip to take my son to Edmonton..(which I so want to do before Christmas and stay in the Fantasy Land hotel.  Expensive, but Ethan would get such a kick out of sleeping in the truck theme room - where the mattress is in the bed of a truck! LOL! And it is right in the mall, so no driving in our nasty weather in Dec.)  But they also gave me a cold pack of frozen lobster meat.  MMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmm!!!!  I am sooo excited!  I just love lobster, and NEVER get it, so I’m gonna enjoy it…and my “cake” will be the butter on it!  And I have NO guilty reservations about that one!  It’s still frozen so I’m putting it in the fridge overnight and hopefully tomorrow night it will be ok to eat.

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Well Buddies, I’m off to bed.  Take care all.  I have a difficult time commenting on all blogs throughout the week with work and school for Ethan, but want you all to know that I am watching over all of you and if I don’t get to you throughout the week, by the weekend I am guaranteed to comment!  Toodles!

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Ok ~So now it is a morning edit as it is 9:02 am on Sept 4!!  (Truely my birthday in everyway now, and I just gave myself a great present ~ I hopped on that scale and am down another pound bringing me to my mini-goal of 184 and 20 lbs lost total!  YAYAYYAYAYAYAY!!!!!

Yup, it’s that time of year for me.  Monday Sept 4 is my 29th birthday.  Last year in the twenties, and last year of being overweight!  By this time next year…and sooner ~ I plan…..I will be fit, active, and not have a weight problem at all.  The perfect present for my 30th in 2007.  As for me now, I just treated myself to a bit of shopping yesterday.  I bought new jeans, and yes paid RETAIL! ~ NO SALES HERE!  But still they were quite inexpensive at $48.  I am proud to say they are a +14.  I started this journey this summer at a +20.  So I am stoked to fit into these!  And I only plan to fit into them for maybe a month or so before they are too big to get away with!  But I feel great.  rn

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Once again I purged my clothing and got rid of several garbage bags full of clothes ~ lots too big now!  Yay!!!  I decided to toss almost all of my t shirts because they were either too big and boxy man shirts ~ oh so not flattering…. or they were just old and looked it.  rn

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So where I bought my jeans I turn around and voila…. t-shirts on sale for $4.78 each!  And they are nice feminine ones, fitted with nice v necklines and such.  So I restocked and bought like 10 different ones…different styles and colors and wait for the best part….they are ALL regular size XL!!  I can wear a fitted XL!  I have no idea when the last time was that I wasn’t in a + size tshirt!  It must have been about 5 years ago!  rn

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Anyways, I haven’t been around much…I am falling off the wagon gym-wise so I’m gonna go rock it today big time and plan to all this long weekend since I have more time to devote to it.  The contest is still going well, I am still losing…and I haven’t eaten bad since I started this whole thing.  I’ll check in later and catch up on blogs.  If I don’t exercise now, it just gets put off until tomorrow and I can’t do that to myself and my koolest loser partner. rn

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Oh, and you might be wondering about “cake” on my bday?  Well, no plans here for that.  I actually have been dreaming of a succulent expensive cut of steak from our butcher for about 6 months now, and have no idea why I never went ahead and got one earlier…so now it seems like steak is my perfect piece of cake!  And I’ll make sure to have big pieces of steamed broccoli mmmmmm and my naughty food…greek salad!!!!!  And I’ll enjoy every bit of it!!!