Lets Get Skinny

Fair Warning:  This blog contains personal material!

A few blog posts ago I wrote about my personal goal to get into a bikini for my honeymoon.  I started last semester at 135lbs

 I started this semester at 130lbs, and I now weigh..

125 lbs!

Now, this is not mission accomplished by any means of the phrase.  Although my body composition may be deemed acceptable for a bikini, I would still feel incredibly uncomfortable in one.

Why?  It has come to my attention that unless I looks like the women on the fitness channel, I probably won't be satisfied.

Red flag.

That's not healthy.  Last week it came to my attention that maybe I wasn't going about this the right way.  I mean I lost 10lbs since the engagement, that's amazing!  But it doesn't feel amazing.  So I came up with a list of encouraging differences I've noticed, such as dropping a whole pants size and seeing my hip bones again.  But I became concerned about eating enough or eating enough of each food group.  In the past (like way past, a good 6 years past)  I had limited my eating to what I would consider a disorder.  I looked good, but I wasn't healthy.  It's funny because I can still hear my dad saying "she never eats!"  That situation will not happen again!

I checked in my with my amazing nutritionist sister and she said I have a healthy diet (YES!!!) and perhaps I just need to cross train.  I'm in the gym about 5 times a week including Taekwon-Do and I just started weights.  I probably won't ever look like Jillian Michaels, but hey who cares (ok, I care).

I think there's a difference between the whole "you're beautiful just the way you are" and being the best you that you can be.  I know that I'm beautiful just the way I am and Jude tells me that EVERYDAY because he's amazing (and its true :D )  I'm on a journey really to see what I can be.

Can you imagine that I went from being in the gym NEVER to being down there multiple times a week?

I remember I had shared with a friend that I had been trying to lose weight and his response was, "I don't know why you girls always do this to yourselves.  Just buy a bigger dress!"

The dress already fits.  It made me think, what's this all about anyway?

Well, I said all that to say that maybe I should change my goal.  My new goal is not "let's get skinny."  It's more like "let's be the best me I can be."  That means being healthy first.  Everything else will fall into place!!  It doesn't mean I'm going back to junk food or getting out of the gym, its just a different way of thinking and it makes all the difference.

34 more days :)

JAMAICA!!

AND we have a verdict.

Sunday night around 1am we received an email from Liberty travel with our official prize letter (oddly addressed to a Jude and Julianne Wallis....our last name is Singh people, Singh) stating that our destination will be (drum roll please)...

ANTIGUA!!

YIPPEE!! I was so excited because that is where we wanted to go! We were so happy that it wasn't Jamaica because we would feel a little uneasy on the Island having known missionaries doing work there.  Don't get me wrong, we would still LOVE Jamaica, but it wasn't our first choice.

But then, there was a problem.  Apparently there were no openings on the Island of Antigua.  My dreams dashed, I sighed and hoped the travel agent could figure something out.

5 hours later (after a few lost hours of sleep) we received another email from Liberty Travel.

There was a mistake and our actual prize is to JAMAICA!!

Ironic, but still lovely.  We still have to choose a resort and choose when we would like to go.  We are thinking about going either in August or around Christmas.  It may be possible to go right after the wedding, but we would feel rushed.  With school, wedding, and then work starting 5 days later, we would actually like a vacation and not an obligation.  We're hoping instead to head down to the shore for a few days just to relax before spending the summer at Blue Mountain Christian Retreat.

Thank you again to everyone who voted :D

We will keep you updated on exactly where and when we will be traveling to this BLESSING!!

Long Time No Blog

Just because I've been silent on here doesn't mean a million things havent happened!

First, I've been holding off on this post because I wanted to be able to have information to share about......dun dun dun...

WINNING THE HONEYMOON!!!

YES WE WON!!  We came in third and truly and honestly it wouldn't have been possible if everyone hadn't rallied, bullied, and harassed every person they knew :)  We couldn't have done this without you and we will be sending back MANY postcards! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

Now, as for the information, we really don't have much even though it was almost 3 weeks ago.  We came in third place, so the first two winners need to choose their destinations.  First place will choose between Antigua, Jamaica, and St. Lucia, then second place will choose from the remaining and we will receive whichever destination is left.  We are NOT complaining because this is AMAZING!! Wherever we end up, it will be a 4 day/3night all inclusive stay at a Sandals resort, including airfare :)

They should be getting to us this week or next about our destination and hooking us up with a travel agent :D

That being said, I am FREAKING OUT about everything that is left before the wedding!! We mostly have small tasks left, but things like finishing my bouquet, coming up with a scheme for the head table, buying the gifts, and working on Jude's immigration stuff is driving me nuts.  Not to mention I am officially enrolled to begin class the Monday after graduation and attend school through the wedding and honeymoon.  Jude is doing the same.

Are we doing too much? YES WE ARE.  I have no doubts that perhaps our schedule was not made with the greatest of wisdom, but it was a sacrifice we were willing to make to finish our education.  Once we receive our degrees (BA in Religion and Philosophy) we would like to take a semester off to find work and a place to live and such.

Jude has recently found a passion to become a dentist and I am thrilled!! I was hoping to go back to school for nursing (I still might) but perhaps I will become a dental assistant/hygienist and we will work together.  If this IS the Lord's will, then we will have an amazing skill set for the Kingdom of God to go to the places where many are without healthcare, hope, love, and Jesus.  Please keep us in prayer because we are on one wild adventure!!

I also had a fantastic bridal shower on Sunday and would like to say THANK YOU!! once I get some pictures, I will post some :)

I promise that as things progress I will continue to update.
45 days until I'm Mrs. Singh <3

p.s. if you ever go tanning and the lady tries to convince you to use lotion...don't listen...otherwise you will have trouble sitting for the next 3 days :(