Day 3 :-)

So I was going to wait until the end of the week to blog about my workouts but today I was so motivated I couldn't hold it in. Today is Day 3 of my official June challenge but Day 4 of working out. My thoughts so far are that I love the working out part, it feels so good after you've ran up the bleachers or ran a lap, it's a high I can't explain. Like I'm on cloud 9 right now. It's a stress reliever and nothing feels better than coming down from a sprint to realize that life is short and I shouldn't let people or anything bother me.

Anyway with all that being said I am having problems sticking to the 1500 calorie intake (yikes). It is sooo hard but I know I can do it just have to do better tomorrow.

June's Fitness Challege (by Curliebelle) DAY 1

This challenge is not my own but one that I found on Curliebelle's blog "Skinny Chick in the Making. The rules are simple:

1. Workout 5 days a week for at least 35-40 minutes with 2 rest days.

2. Drink at least 8 bottles of water (64 ounces of water) each day.

3. Daily calorie target is 1200-1500 calories.

4. Weigh-ins on Day 1, Day 15, and Day 30.

5. No Excuses

Today is my first day of officially starting and I am off to a good start and I'll go running around Morehouse's track later when the sun goes down. I am taking this one day at a time and I'll stick to 1500 calories of healthy foods.

Swim cute

If and only if I weren't living off of a grad students salary all of these would be mine. Oh well a girl can wish can't she. These swimsuits are the latest in Monif C's swim collection.

HAIR UPDATES

This is my fro as of June 3rd. I washed my hair with Giovannis shampoo, conditioned with Herbal Essences Hello Hydration, and used Kimmay's leave-in conditionar then styled with eco styling gel and voila.

Lately my go-to hairstyle has been two strand twist and twist-out but twisting my hair takes too much time and I just didn't feel like doing it yesterday. However I will have to by the end of the week cause its a great low maintenance hairstyle once its done.

One thing that suprises me about my hair still to this day is the amount of shrinkage I mean sheesh, looking at my fro you would never think that my hair is actually shoulder length. (shrugs) Oh well that is apart of having kinky curly hair.

Dark Girls Preview

Hi girls and guys....soo in 2011 I really wish this weren't an issue but since it still is check out the preview to this documentary about Dark Girls. The scene with the little girl was hard to take in but I've heard my little cousins ranging ages 6-11 say that they thought light skin is better too. I wonder how we could change this ideology that one complexion is better than the other, at the end of the day we are all Black so skin color shouldn't matter.

As far as dating preference it doesn't bother me when a guy says he prefers light skin because, I mean, we all have our preferences. I prefer guys who are tall and thick. I also prefer dark men over light men. Not to say that I exclude men who don't fit that description and also I don't think one is better than the other it's just what I like.

Anyway tell me what you think about the documentary and the issue as a whole.
http://vimeo.com/24155797

Dang!!! All of that though!

This was a typical lunch or dinner for me before I decided to eat out only once a week. Sheesh the polynesian sauce has 110 calories alone, I'd eat this meal probably three times a week at least and the last item that you don't see is a sweet tea. The part that gets me is that this is for the small, don't let me mess around and be hungry and get the medium size version, I don't even wanna face those numbers cause that would call for another 110 calories of polynesian sauce as well. Anyway a lot of restaurants have the calorie calculator tool, I challenge you guys to go to your fave spot and calculate your regular meal...you might be suprised at the numbers I know I sure was.

Concealer vs Non concealer

This is the difference that coastal scents concealer quad makes on my eyes...this is using the medium brown color on the dark concealer quad
Eye on the left is concealed, eye on the right is not concealed