Jamie's Weight Loss Diaries.... #4 Weigh In....

***Thursday is Weigh In Day...I weigh myself ONCE a week. I can't jump on the scale every day, all times of the day, when I feel fat, before a date....too much on my medicated brain. lol! Once a week is good for me. I'm a born again scale person. I'm  just now embracing the scale. I avoid it all thru my teens and twenties....***

February 10, 2011

-4 lbs

Down to 223lbs

(16 lbs lost since 12/30/2010)

I haven't hit a "wall" or a "plateau" yet, thank God. That's not something I'm focused on. It could happen, it couldn't happen, so I'm not going to start this thing off negatively.

Many random things happened within the last week that made realize that this IS a lifestyle change.  I will clipping coupons ( I determine to be one of those monster couponers. lol) and I came across a coupon for $1 off Edwards mini pies. I remember that I used to eat one with every meal. I would clear the frozen foods shelf of the apple ones. I would eat them and drink hot cocoa and watch TV in a house that I was fighting my everything to stay in. They were part of my gaggle of comfort foods.

I started to cry.

I didn't see it then, but I was comforting myself emotionally with food. I was living in a house that I couldn't afford and hustling to stay there so that my kids would have there own home. The greedy beast I was fighting against was my very own relative who eventually took all the money that I had paid in rent and advance rent and spent it. Then decided I AND my kids couldn't live there anymore. I had no one to talk to, no one understood, I felt like failure. So Edwards Mini Apple Pies would save me...for the moment.

I have a list of my comfort foods that I keep in my food journal and when ever I discover a new one I forgot about, I write it down. You best believe those Edwards pies are on there. lol.

The emotions that come with emotional eating are as raw as the reasons you eat them.

FOTD: Wet N' Wild ColorIcon Trio in I Got Good Jeans....

I Got Good Jeans is the name of this Wet N' Wild Color Icon Trio. Two blues and a gold. Kinda reminds me of MAC Inter-view Mineralize Eye Shadow Trio.

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I own Interview and I have FOTD pictures with it...somewhere:(

Here ya go!! That light blue shade. HELL to blend. Maybe I'm just impatient. ( Excuse my flaky nose and bare lips.)

The Gold is not as bright as it is swatched. I did a bit of building to get the mid-intensity I got.

The dark blue is gorge though, loved that one....

Fresh Coat: Orly Oh Cabana Boy......

 I bought Orly Oh Cabana Boy off a Valentine's Orly display in Sally some weeks ago. But I quickly figured out its not a Valentine's exclusive( especially with the name "Oh Cabana Boy" lol)

Its part of the Orly Miami Slice collection circa 2009?!?

 Here it is....its sheer, so that's 3 coats. Its the most brilliant beautiful pink I've ever seen!!! This is officially my signature pink polish.

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FOTD: Wet N' Wild ColorIcon Trio in Silent Treatment....

 Today, I played with Wet N' Wild ColorIcon Trio in Silent Treatment...again.

My FIRST stab at it on Thursday via the diagram on the shadows...eyelid, crease, browbone....it looked ashy and too light....:(

 Second try...this morning.....Crease color on the lid and in the crease, Eyelid color above the crease...Browbone color in the inner tearducts.... I like it this way....

 I also based the lid with Two Faced Shadow Insurance AND the dark color in E.L.F. Cream Shadow in Mocha Swirl. It gave the shadow wayyy more intensity....

 Black liner on the upper and lower lash line and under the lower lash line I used Flirt! Eye Pencil in Gold Tease....

I could wear Silent Treatment everyday!! Its a sultry metallic neutral palette. I'm glad I gave it another chance.:)