Hello all.

Good evening Kirin. How are you doing today? I'm about to head off to a club shortly. I think i look awful for it right now xD but dancing!! <3

Yay, dancing, Shadami! :D

I am going to take some pictures today. Not looking forward to it at all.

You don't like taking pictures Ava?

I don't mind it, I love having my pictures taken when I feel like I look good.
But yesterday was incredibly hot. And in my pictures I was going to wear a long, long sleeved velvet dress. :S

It was so hot, we ended up taking pictures inside and that was much better.

oh i hope there was some wonderful air conditioning!

Dying over here...well sort of. Got a sinus infection with bronchitis and an ear infection in both ears. Yippee

yeah that's pretty much dying. I hate all of those.

I napped so I'm not overly tired but I think I am going to head to bed soon even if it's just to lay there.

I gained 5 lbs.... :(

I just need to lose it again and I will be happy!

You don't need to lose the weight, dear! Don't let society make you think that you have to be tiny and skinny and super thin!
5 pounds is nothing, you are beautiful how you are!

Thanks, Livi,
But I feel I need to lose this weight for myself. I want to be in shape, I have let myself get a little relaxed with my "diet". (And my diet is basically just eating healthy)

Diets - I've learned, don't really work, because as soon as you stop the diet -- the weight comes back. Just make sure you're losing the weight for you and not because it's what society's messages keep telling you to do. Everyone, in some shape or form, puts on weight as they get older. It's just a fact of life. You are beautiful, just how you are.

Just because someone is larger - doesn't mean that they aren't "in shape". Someone can be larger and still 'in shape' just saying.

As a society we need to stop referring to eating trends such as Atkins or Paleo (not sure how that is spelled) as a "diet" when in reality what we normally or habitually eat is our diet. We've contorted the word to mean some else and it comes with a stigma. I prefer the way a lender at Weight Watchers phrased her introduction to us, "We're not here to "diet" because everyone has tried a "diet" and it hasn't worked. So instead of calling it a "diet" we're going to say we are changing our eating habits." And that is a more accurate way of portraying what is happening.

i gained 5 pounds as well, but i also was down 40 from last july so i'm pretty happy xD

"Lifestyle change" > fad diet.
I need a lifestyle change lol. -rolls away-

hehehe

lifestyle change for me still includes pizza. xD

Everyone has a food they can't live without I think. I can't imagine my life without tacos.

never. ever. take away the tacos. NEVER tacos are the best food ever in the entire world. you can make them in so many different ways and they're always delicious!!

Just Mexican food in general. I'm sooo glad my mom is from L.A. and was partially raised by her neighbors. The mom of that family taught her so much. Delicious knowledge.

Delicious knowledge in my opinion is the best knowledge. xD

Now I want Mexican.

Go get yourself some mexican than. and i do mean the food :P it'd be bad to kidnap a poor unsuspecting mexican.

If you like yourself skinny enough to power through the work to turn skinny, go skinny.

Food I can't live without? Hmmm. That would be… everything I like to eat. Don't ask me to choose between my children, you madman.

Unhealthy food shouldn't be the tastiest. *enters a universe where giant Hershey's Cookies n' Creme flavor, bacon, and baked sweets are fundamental for maintaining a healthy body*

unhealthy foods also shouldn't be the cheapest -.-