So... its April 22nd, whats the chat from the year so far?!

Hello my special blog friends (:

So as the title suggests, I have yet again fallen behind on this whole blogging thing and therefore I shall need to catch you up with all those super cool, exciting, once in a life time, change your life things that have happened to me since we last talked… but then that would make for an incredibility boring blog as it would end right here. Nothing has happened that I would say I would slot into any of the categories above… but more dull, mundane stuff has!

First, things first… A little update on this whole losing of the weight situation that I find myself in, I have now lost my 65^th lb (which for anyone working in stones is 4 stones, 7lbs). I know this is probably a disappointing figure for some due to the fact that the last time we talked I was going on about the 60^th lb… but I have to be totally honest with you, I am content enough with the slow weight loss, it was going to happen eventually… you can’t continue to lose the weight as fast as I was in the beginning.

Now, it is yet again that time… its end of the university trimester time. I have to say I feel strangely in control this trimester which makes me a very happy bunny! I passed everything last trimester and so we are on target!!

“Do you have any plans for the summer?”… “Got any holidays booked?” … “Going away anywhere nice?” …. These questions seem to be getting asked ALL the time! I have to be honest with you my little bloggies, I have an AMAZING summer plan… that is if it all works out! I my friends want to do Camp America soooooo much! I have applied, I have been interviewed, I have been police background checked, I have paid a generous sum of money and I am praying I get placed. As of just now my application is in that really, I mean seriously nerve racking stage of RTP, which for anyone that is not obsessed with spending the WHOLE summer in America, meeting new people, working with children and just generally having a B.L.A.S.T, it means Ready To Place. This is something that I think a lot of people are totally unaware of. So you spend ages filling out applications, uploading pictures, creating videos and perfecting essays… and then you get super excited because you are successful and you are getting an interview! You get all dressed up (and if you are anything like me), get there really early … you spend about 1hour being interviewed and then you hear back… you have been SUCCESSFUL! Now by this point you are already researching what to pack, how much spending money to take and the best things to do post camp… and then you realise that no one wants you yet. Now this is not some sort of x-factor sob story, this happens to EVERYONE, but it is still incredibly nerve racking! I have been in the RTP stage for 2 weeks and I can honestly say I check every few hours to see if someone wants to give me a placement. I had a dream last night I got placed in a camp in Michigan… and then my alarm rang and I could have cried! I have worked so far this year to get the grades that I need, to get the money to enable me to do this and I am seriously worried that I won’t get placed… so if I could ask everyone a massive favour? Please cross your fingers for me! PLEASE?!!!

I don’t really know where to go now with this blog as the items listed above have kind of taken over my life in the last couple of months… Weight loss, University and duh duh duh Camp America!

So I am going to make this last paragraph, really unbelievably original… just kidding, I’m going to tell you about what I have done today. Today has been a rather strange day if I am honest! I woke up almost crying over the whole Michigan placement dream… and then realised that I had slept in and that I needed to be dressed and ready to leave in 20mins. This isn’t due to the fact that I have a super early class on a Monday, it’s basically because my parents have lost their minds and have decided to re-decorate the WHOLE house. Today was the start of this transformation and the first thing to hit the Lewis house you may ask? Windows. Yes, today every single window in my house got taken out and replaced. This is something when you think about it, doesn’t seem like that messy a job… believe it is. Thankfully my parents are awesome and got them to do my window first so that I could have my room back to normal ASAP and get back to studying. So what did I do all day, with no university and a whole lot of studying? That’s right I went to Starbucks… And I am talking serious Starbucks time happened. I was there for about 6 hours, drank about 4 grande soy lattes and took advantage of the surprisingly fast free wifi that they provide. (If we are being all technical here… it was actually the shopping centre that Starbucks is located in that has the super fast WIFI… Starbucks wifi was as always a little lack-luster.) About an hour ago, I decided to be a trooper (which is a rather Scottish phrase meaning good person) and head home! I came home to a house in carnage… but my room was done! So I hovered it, moved all my furniture back to the way I like it, opened my laptop and boo… here we are!!

So till next time my special blog buddy…

Love Yasmin Christina

xx

£60… never in my life did I think I would say losing this would make me so happy!

Hello world, 

It was been a strangely long time since I have updated you on my life and for that I shall apologise. I had an awesome Christmas period and hope you did too (: 

At the end of January I went to Amsterdam for the weekend with my best friend and that to be honest has been the only interesting thing to happen since the last time we spoke!

Well… that and the fact that I have now officially (as of yesterday) lost 60lbs. I know I did a little play on worlds in the title but I can honestly say that I am ridiculously proud of myself! As with all mile-stones in my weightloss so far I wouldn’t say that I really felt anything extremely uplifting when I stepped on those scales and seen that number that I have been longing for. I think that when you are heavy and looking to lose those extra lbs you have this idea that when you stand in that scale and reach a mile-stone there will be a random outburst of music and disco lights and party poppers but that doesn’t happen. You get back of the scale (and in my case head down the stairs to make yourself a lovely bowl of dairy free porridge) and everything feels the exact same, for a little while, and then all of a sudden you get this amazing feeling coming over you that you actually did it! Like 100% have done what you thought, quite frankly, was impossible. I know I am probably rambling but I just want people to know that losing those lbs doesn’t have the same reaction in real life as it does in those crazy weightloss shows, people don’t jump up and down, bring gifts of flowers and give you free things… when you do it on your own, it really is just that sense of pride that you feel (that and the fact that I now wear much smaller jeans). 

Now I know that 60lbs sounds like a lot of weight but I unfortunately do have a rather long way to go. I am to lose 100lbs but my 21^st Birthday… that means I have 8 months to loss 40lbs. I sometimes get this feeling inside that I cannot help but think “I’m not sure if I can do this for another 8 months… im not sure if I can last without a sandwich or some cheese for another 8 months” but all I do is look back at old pictures, look and see how round my face was, now large my belly was and I realise that I would last 8 years without a sandwich and some cheese if I can on my 21^st birthday stand in a beautiful dress (from the likes of French connection) and feel happy and totally proud of myself that I may have been that chubby child, that curvy young teenager, that heavy 20 year old but now I am that pretty 21 year old… and I realise it will all be worth it! 

Until next time…

Love Yasmin Christina

xx