This is what happens when...

I'm not motivated. I went to the gym for about 3 months, for 3 days a week. I weighed 216 when i started and ended at 208. 8 pound loss. So i'm going to start it up again because i went to the gym last week and i weigh 216 again, which is really bad. If i start watching what i eat and drink then i have no doubt that i can really get down to my weight goal of 160. Thats a total of 56 pounds. I'm not trying to lose it in any amount of time. But i do at least want to get out of the 200's by halloween. Hopefully maybe get to 195... is 20 pounds reasonable for 2 months? 10 pounds a month. About 2 to 2.5 pound loss in a week. I think that is pretty manageable. I need to start grocery shopping for myself, apart from my family. Once i start getting into the habit of eating better than i can start pushing them to eat healthier.

Okay maybe i lied a little up there. I'm really trying to lose this weight before july 2012. My parents 25th wedding anniversary is next summer. July 21st to be more exact. I'm trying to keep that my ultimate goal. 160, hopefully by then i could weight less... or at least be near that number. I haven't been close to that weight since the 7th grade. I think i'm going to try the "17 Day Diet". One of the gurus i see on youtube started this diet and is doing pretty well. Hopefully i can have a positive outcome like she is having.

This fall i am also enrolled in a swimming class at my community college. Twice a week in that water for an hour. Last time i took a swimming class at school i lose about 15 pounds. I had a nice toned up body. i think i weighed anywhere from 170-180. Swimming plus running plus eating healthy will equal the healthy life i want to start living for myself.

My family has a history of so many health related problems and i don't want to make it easier for those illness' to get to me. My dad is one of 10 children, he is the only one that doesn't have diabetes, and that is only because he watches what he eats. Maybe he can be my buddy. My mom needs more convincing. She gets so grouchy when things change.

This is what i plan to change...

-start drinking more water, try and keep my soda intake to one day a week.

-Eat more veggies, i need to go to the grocery store and buy the frozen bag type since it will be easier for me to make my lunch/dinners.

-start running 2 miles 3 times a week, if i don't have time for the gym than i can always run around the block.

...i'll add more when i remember things...

I'm planning on buying the new iPhone when it comes out next month. I have signed up myself for myfitnesspal.com so that i can track my meals and my exercise. I'm also planning on writing my weight progress here every monday... maybe add some pictures. This is more for myself. I feel if i write things out and keep up with it then maybe i will have a better success rate. I read so many weight loss pics on tumblr and i want to be one of those before/after stories. I will be one of those.

Wedding here i come. Shrinking waist, here i come. Feels so weird sometimes that my boyfriend is so skinny and tiny. He eats like an elephant and is the size of a mouse. I want him to be like "wow". He likes me for who i am, but i know a thinner girlfriend would't hurt. Let's do this!

New Weight-Loss Plan

So this blog is going more from my experiences in life to trying to keep on track what I eat and do to lose weight. My goal out of this is to try and be a size 8 by 2012. Currently I am wearing a size 12 jeans. They're beginning to fit a little snug, which means I'm gaining even more weight. My 21st birthday is in 2 months. For that I'm trying to lose some weight since I will be going to Las Vegas. I am 5"7' 1/2. I don't know how much I weigh, I haven't stepped on a scale since high school. My measurements (in inches) are:

Bust: 42

Waist: 37

Hips: 44

Thighs: 40

Leg: 24

Arm: 13

I will try to update my measurements every first of the month. Otherwise, I will try to update my exercise/eating habits here. Hopefully in the next couple of months I start seeing some results. Good luck to anyone else trying to go on this weight loss jouney.

-Karina

..And into the FUTURE!

Wow... okay it's been a year since i've last posted and SO many things have changed. Omg i see my last blogs and i seem such an EMO kid, i mean who the hell was torturing me?

Okay so i'm so over the whole Victor thing (XD) haha. But i'm glad to say that i am still friends with him.Yeah so now i'm going out with my first love Chris.Yeah. Yesterday was our 9 months together. WoOt!

Well lemme start from last March. On my birthday all my friends decided to throw me a surprise party since we took our CAHSEE and we got out of school early. They failed miserably. Although they did surprise me in the whole actaully doing something for me, the whole plan was screwed when they decided to walk down the street i walk home with balloons in their hands and making them stand out. We hung out and we finally saw Erika's baby that day. Jackie Monster later made me a CD with all of the pictures she took from that day.

That month i also had all these movie night things. They were pretty exciting, with the laughing, pizza, and Jackie Monster's shocking machine. I mean when a shocking machine is involved who wouldn't have fun. During that time i had a thing for one of my classmates named Jorge. I mean it wasn't until it was brought to my attention that i like him.(i know sad right?!) But nothing ever happened, we never really admitted to each other we had feelings. He thought i was teasing him and i thought he would never like me. But it would not be until he would get with his like billionth g/f that we admitted to each other we did have feeling for each other at one point and time.

Since then my cousin Fernando moved up here from San Diego. He now lives near us and he's here like 24/7 =] So i can say that he's practically another brother to me. (not like i need anymore. I already have like 5 blood related ones and like akajillion other ones XD no offense to my friends).

In june i took my ap world history exam and failed... BIG TIME! ....out of the possible 9 points i got 1 okay... a 1. ( i don't blame them.)And that was the end of that.

I did for this year apply for more a.p. classes to my surprise. Ap. Spanish and English. They are even bigger butt kickers than Hong's class.but megh i'm managing.

Well after my sophmore year ended 3 days later i left for my Mexico Summer trip with my school. We would leave tuesday morning from LAX on AeroMexico to Mexico City. We arrived there around 9pm. Yes it took us a long time to get there. Unfortunatly i had to go with Harriston(he has emotional issues and thinks he's all that) but Ms Avitia was cool (although she did scream at us for waking up uber late.). We were to take the trip from Mexico City to Cancun in 2 weeks and with a school in Illinois and Missouri. Altogether we were about 30-ish students. We had a blast. Our school came especially attached to some student sin particular (Matt, Super Dooper, Megean, and Kelsey [i love you guys!]. We had many crazy and wild adventures in the hotel and the pools and w would not sleep until 3 am at times. Don't get me wrong no sex was involved or anything liek that.At the airport there was tears and hugs and goodbye's and exchanging of information. and yadi-yadi-yada...

When i came back i saw my friend(at the time) chris again and the night ended with a surprising kiss. For the next couple of weeks he kept nagging me about it and to tell you the truth i was scared. The first time we went out i ended up depressed for a long time. I didn't even know i was in a depression until i was out of it. After my brther had his 19th birthday party we talked things out and decided to try things one more time. So our relationship wa son again on July 22nd. Many of our friends would nt approve seeing that he had just broken up with some girl named Tiffaney who was our friends close friend ( not one of my friend, i'm not to fond of her, but i do love her twin brittaney).

Junior year started and something happened b/w me and chris i ind of started pushiung him away. I don't know why. We were at a point where we were going to break up but he didn't want to. I had a Halloween party and we fixed things after about 2 months. That months our spanish class had gone to a spanish play by china town, it was so good, and fun, mostly because there was an abandoned prison next door!

Thanksgiving and christmas and new year all came. It is not the same as it used to be. I mean there wasn't really any excitment to any of it. Whee's the fun in that?!

Valentines came and my honey woke me up early and he brought be flowers, a teddy bear, and a balloon. <3

My birthday came and most of my friends were not there.Most of them are in College Match, which is this program for the top 10 people in my grade., and they wer eon a college tour in the east coast. They brought me so many gifts though (THANK YOU I LOVED THEM!) That sunday i was kind of sad an dhappy. My b/f celebrated my brthday at his house with jackie monster , i was kind of sad thought because since i'm only 1/6 kids i am the one who is the most neglected. I might be the only girl but they don't pay attention to me. They never really do anything for me. They only time i'm really ever good enought to do anything is to wash dishes or clean my room. =\

April is came by and spring break! I went to work 2 tmes out of the 2 weeks. ON the last friday my friend and i went to the beach and made a beach party and then a bonfire at night. I was pretty cool. I had my first s'more! (lame i know right?!)

...and now May is approaching which brings SAT's, 2 A.P. Exams, State Testing (for the last time), and then in June there's my other SAT's and then finals!

WoOt the school year is almost done and i am almost a SENIOR!

...my High School Years are almost at an end!

WOW that was long...

hello again...

well it's been almost another month since my last post. My birphday is in about a week in a half. I am soon to be 16. My parents want to go to Vegas but i don't really see the point in it becasue am not 21 yet and i won't be able to gamble or anything. I guess i'll just be stuck in the arcade again with my 5 brothers....wooptidoo. Yeah so i've been doing better in school....i think....things have been going with chris, his g/f family just randomly movoed like a month ago and he was very deeply depressed, i've been trying to cheer him up and stuff. Things with Victor are getting better, i'm trying to get closer to him emotionally, and with paco i think we'll just stay friends. I'm writing becasue we ahve no homework due for tomorrow. My aunt's dog had puppies, the father was my goddy shooby but he ran away. Yeah we're going to keep one of the puppies =D ..oh yess.. so yeah, um and again nobody had been on their own blog since the end of 9th grade... OMG we're going to be JUNIORS soon... in like*counts* 3 months ...FUCK! OMG and then before we know it we're going to be seniors leavinf gor college and separating our separete ways and crying and NO! okay...time goes by way too fast....me and jackie G. are going to dress up girly tomorrow....isn't that great....hehe yeah...ima wear those prettee shoes i have and in pink...and yeah..WOW..okay i'll be leaving now...ima go do...uh..read for A.P. yeah.... read...that's what i'll do...

=D

later

-kari

WoW

Wow, it's been what..*counts* 7 months since i last wrote int his thing...wow it's been a while...well em and victor broke up 6 months ago(july 26), like a week after he came back from mexico, i came out in my friend SnoFlakes' 15(august 6), my freind Jaxz had a sweet 16(july 16)... my uncle and his family died in august 22, october 28 my uncle gonzalo died after surgury.. um christmas was okay... it was like boring.. new years was like megh, not too exciting... um i joined drill team back in october... yeah we had a performance not too long ago... um tomorrow's valentines day and i ahve no valentine..as always... vany's going out with ramon.. um jackie and randy split like a month after me and victor, um laura's still going with ym brother(they're so cute), stph's going with this one 11 grader, um well things are very confusing now-a-days..i don't know what i really want. I was struggling last semester w/ all that was happening...i'm in a.p. and yeha it's a butt-kicker.... but yeah i'm lost between victor and paco...it's like AH! ...victor's kewl but so is paco...i know victor cares about me but i'm not sure if he still wants to give us another chance and with the whole apco thing i don't even know what's going on...like i tried but i don't think it's going to work out with either guys, is hould just give up...at least give up at Animo... like i want a boyfriend but i don't think ym hearts ready for it... well on friday we(the crew) went tot he moobies and victor and i went to go see the pink panther and the rest went to go see final destination 3, yeah... i don't know what the future has for me but i hope it's good things cuz i don't know if i can take nay more bad news, yeah,i've just been like blah, erika got pregant and had her baby like 2 weeks ago, the little one has to stay at the hospital becasue it was born premature, i want to see her already, they named her Rosa Alejandra. yeah..can't wait to see her..erika is now 150 pounds she used to weigh 110 before the baby..things have just been so screwed up..i just want someone to come and change things around for me... make me looka t the positive things in life...a boost... okay i'll leave now!

-Karina

Fourth of July

yeah well i spent my fourth of july at my aunts house in East L.A.! it was pretty cool! yeah we were out there for 2 hours popping fireworks... yeah... it got boring after the first hour... but yeah the thing my cousins did was hilarious.... yeah good memories... well i hope all of you guys spent it well... i also took care of my baby cousin.. her name is leah (but pronounced le-ya) but yeah she wouldn't stop shouting..... well yeah yesterday Victor left to Mexico.... i'm going to miss him.... he's leaving for 2 weeks and 2 days hehe well i can't wait till my brothers 18th b-day party... it's gonna be cool.. well yeah comment anyone if anyone ever comes here... *sigh* later
NERDS/GEEKS RULE!

DEAD!

god this thing died... hmm ima miss you mr juice..... *tear* they grow up so fast! we are now sophmores! oh jeah! we are no longer freshies in mr juices class... hm.. i learned a lot from you though... yeah.. i wonder when someone is going to commenton this blog..... *sigh* i doubt ever becasue i doubt anyone's going to come here to comment anymore since we don't got mr juice.... but i member this place... so yeah.. i think i can offically call this place dead...... *sigh*.... nooooooooo... the good memories.... i will still continue to write blogs here just in the memory of mr juice.... i doubt anyone else will though.. unless i tell them too! bye bye!
IN MEMORY OF MR. TZEC GOING TO LAW SCHOOL! .....never forget us! your ANIMO family!

Song Journal # 3 - April 29, 1992 (Sublime)

I think this song is about them just going crazy and destroying things because everybody else was doing it. He stole and destroyed buildings. As he would still things they started off being little things here adn there but they would get bigger as he saw he wanted more. He was just doinf it to make himself happy. As he did it, he saw many other people doing the same as he was and adults as well. It compares tot he rights becasue the whole things deals with the riots, A-DUH! lol well yeah and um yeah what's your opinion?! yeah i'm bored.... Mr. Juice just loves giving us things to do! Later!

Journal#2- Under The Bridge (R.H.C.P.)

Okay well this song is about heroine and stuff but you can also see it as him talking about the 1992 Riots. He probably feel like lonley that he need something to do. He also talks about how he love the city of angels which is Los Angeles. He sees L.A. as a freind to him because she would never leave him. When he says he doesn't want to feel , like i did that day, so take me to the place i love, take me all the way- i think he's talking about death, he's probably lying somewhere dying and wants to be taken to heaven already. In the last stanza he could be talking about he fought under a bridge maybe, he went crazy, he forgot about the people he loved and he got his life taken away by somebody else. His tome is a very sad and calm tone. No, i can't realate to him becasue i've never been in a fight (besides with my brothers and cousins which don't count.) so i can't realate to him. so yeah.. what do you ppl think?.. oh jeah Minimum Day Today! woot woot! *parties and does the hokey poky* hehe

Journal #1 - To Live and Die in L.A.(Tupac)

Well today we have to do another post for Mr. Juice...well yeah we are comparing Tupacs song to the 1992 L.A. Riots...well yeah this song is about how L.A. is the only place he's happy,The only way he makes money is my his music, When he's angry he writes it all on paper instead of doing something physically, he's also saying his life is like a soap opera. Relating this song to how i feel about living in Inglewood is that i love it hear in Inglewood, i might now have much to do here but i still have people to be bored with and we can all be bopred together so see it all works out and we're all happy! No, it does no reflect to my feeling and yes it is too extreme, well maybe not to that time period but for this tinme period not so much well unless you count the war becasue i have a cousin out there..yeah... My overall message is that it is a very meaningful song, i didn't really liek ti but i liek the message behind it!