The Herbalife journey continues....

A few posts back, I wrote about my new weight journey with Herbalife.

The first week I lost 5.5 lbs, and I am currently wrapping up my third week!

Today I went for my weekly weigh in and the results for week 2 was being consistent.

Week 3 equals more consistency, however, I've lost 3.5 inches around my waist

and a total of 6 inches all over. I also lost 2.2% body fat.

New York body 2012 soon come! Whoop whoop! 

Wiz Khalifa - Phone Numbers

Two years later, and Wiz Khalifa is growing on me.... sort of.

I must've skipped this song when I was skimming through his album a while back, but I really like this song. It's called phone numbers and it's my song of the day!

Enjoy.

The misadventure of Awkward black girl

As I was reading one of the hair blogs that I follow, they had a post mentioning this internet short series called "The Misadventure of awkward black girl".

This is hiiiiiiiiilarious!!! I was hooked after the first 10 seconds and I caught up within an hour.

Any black girl (especially) can relate to almost all episodes (direct or indirect).

Episode 11 is the latest one and they will resume with episode 12 in January!

I can't wait! This really made the rest of my year!

Enjoy first episode!

Cross eyed Beyonce

I read that Jennifer Aniston was named most beautiful woman of all times.

When everyone else is dead or what? 

Now, if I could put my bid in, I'd go for Beyonce. 

How you fly when you're crossed eye goofy facing it up? 

Beyonce Know(le)s..

And the winner is.... moi!

Ladies and gents... I can now add award winning writer to my resume! 

Ok, that sounded like I won an Oscar... lol. Let's try this again.

A couple months ago, I wrote an article for my school paper about smoking on campus. 

I would like to apologize (siiiike) to my fellow smoking students in advance, cause I had to bait you up, lol.

The piece was about students smoking on campus although it's against the school policy. 

The reason I wrote about it is because the school likes to emphasize the negative consequence plagiarism and cheating has due to "school policy".

Well how about we come clean with ALL school policies since they are so important. 

Anyways, after the article got published, the SMC school police more or  less looked like fools, so they had to step their A game up. 

Thank me later.

So, the big news is that I got a lil' trophy from school for best article 2011 for that particular article.  

Sweeeeet.... let the good times begin! *bbm dance smiley*

Read the article here

A la la la la long....

I spent my Friday listening to my reggae root Pandora station yesterday.

Ahhh, was dreaming myself away to Jamaica.. but uhm, back to the topic.

So today I came across Inner Circle "Sweat" (A la la long) music video.

What I noticed is that music has changed soooo much over the past 15 years (ok now I feel super old).

If you watch the video, you see everybody just having fun, laughing, dancing and enjoying life. 

In today's music videos it's all about "less is more" - factor. Half nekkid women, make up, sex, weaves, ass... all that BS.

 And "surprisingly", the music today has just decreased it's value (in my opinion).

Today's focus on image is greater than the actual music.

Man I miss the good old days, when MVT played music videos and pop ups...

How did we lose it all....?

Lesley Brixx

My friend Lisa put me on a new artist by the name Lesley Brixx from Amsterdam. 

Just when I thought good music had really hit rock bottom, my ears are blessed with his music.

Good stuff. Listen to his new song "Future" and follow him on Twitter!

"His soulful and seductive voice leans towards the neo soul/ contemporary R'N'B genre. Brixx knows he is not the finalized product, aware that his style and musical journey’s just starting with so much to learn but his drive and dedication demonstrates that he has so much to share with his strong song writing abilities."


Twitter: @LesleyBrixx
Facebook: Lesley Brixx
Email: lesleybrixx@gmail.com

Team Sexy in the building!

If you live in my household, you'll know that my daily meals for the past week have been protein shakes only (more or less). And if you don't know, now you know.

A few weeks ago, me and my friend "R" went to a beach boot camp held by Herbalife team. It really kicked our asses (!!!)
 I then realized how out of shape I am and how much weight I've gained ever since I moved to the U.S.

I've said to myself so many times that I'm gonna go on a diet, work out...bla bla bla, and I've started for a week and then back to In-N-Out for a double double.

Well, day after Thanksgivings (and no I didn't eat until I passed out) I decided to join Herbalife, a nutrition and weight management company.
 My upstairs neighbor been trying to get me on this program since I moved in here (1.5 years ago) but I've politely declined each invite. So I decide to go through, and went to her office and got started on my protein shakes, cell-u-loss pills and energy tea (today I added the nutrition bars for my snack meals). 

In all honesty, I thought it was bull shit but I remembered seeing a friend at the gym and he had lost mad weight and he told me he was on the Herbalife diet. So I gave it a try...

and today, I went for my one on one with my coach to find out I've lost 5.5 lbs (2.5 kilos)!!

Hurrrrrrray for me! If I continue at this pace, I'll meet my goal first week of 2012 (which is to lose 30 lbs!) 

Great way to ring in the new year.
With all the plans and goals I've set up for 2012, staying healthy and look fit will play a huge part.
Will fill you guys in as time pass by.

Another thing I've realized is that there is no point in saying you want to lose weight unless you're 150% devoted. There's this feeling that you have when you know for sure that you're not bullshitting anymore... I felt mine last week!

I'll update you guys about week two in a weeks time.

TEAM SEXY!!

Opinion Editor

For those who don't know, this semester I am writing for my school paper. 

At first I thought it was going to be mad lame but it turns out this class has been one of my best classes. I'd like to call this class "self taught" class and give myself credit for the work I've put in.

Last week I was asked to come back and enroll in the class again but this times as an editor.

As much as I'm flattered, I think I will turn down the position, only because I can't see myself devoting that much time to the paper with the schedule I'll be having next semester :-( 

The fact that I write and don't edit also plays a roll. 

Who knows, I might change my mind.... after all it would look good on the resume *ching*

Check out some of my articles <---- here 

H&M Winter collection

I'm not too impressed with the winter collection by H&M but I'll leave some time for expansion.

Came across this canvas bag... and it's $0 according to the website. Great. I'll have 3 of those please!

Found a few things I could clear my closet for though....

White Collar

Last week, my friend "R" put me on tv-series White Collar.

We watched it from scratch and all I can say is.... I'm HOOKED!

For anyone that followed Prison Break and was heart broken (like me) when last episode aired, will find joy in White Collar. 

It's about a fine dude, escapes prison, there's a girl involved, he is smart... yeah all that good stuff. 

Matt Bomer (the lead guy Neil) is of course a 10 pointer (see pic below).

He can get it.... aaaaallll of it! ;-) 

Anyways, Netflix have season 1 and 2, and cable TV is currently rounding up season 3.... no sad faces, because they've announced a 4th season! 

Baby on board

An old friend from elementary school had a baby yesterday (congrats to her!), and I was flicking through some of the people that I went to school with or hung w=out with back in the days, and it's safe to say that majority is either engaged, married or have kids. 

I personally think that 25 is a good year for engagement and possibly a kid, but then I was thinking to 

myself "Would I want that in the next year"? 

Aw hell no..... Don't get me wrong, I am happy for those that are happily married (even unhappily married) but boy am I far away from that life. 

One day maybe....

No more lockout?

Today, I couldn't wake up to any better news than that the NBA have reached a tentative decision in regards to the lockout. The players and owners have stabbed me in the back many times through out this lockout so I'm not taking anything for granted until they've signed all the papers. First thing I'm gonna do is remove my NBA sticker from my vision board (tick).

If, when the schedules are up, I'm going to look into some tickets for next year. Best believe I'm going to at least one game. Chicago Bulls VS LA Lakers are scheduled to play on Christmas Day.... Santa does exist :)

Thank God I'll be in LA all winter..... 

I'm so excited, I feel like I've won an award or something lol. 

Until papers are signed.... #NBA #NBA #NBA

Shout out to all the fans that never gave up during the lockout. You rock!

Quote of the day

"There's a difference between interest and commitment. 

When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient.

When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses; only results" 
- Kenneth Blanchard

Adele - He won't go

I'm not a die hard Adele fan, but this song is amaze!

Love it!

Back by popular demand

I was looking through my blog last night and I noticed that between 2008-2011 I went from 40 to 366 to 246 to 65 posts per year. In other words, I've been bullshitting with my blog this year. 

Why? I don't know, but I am hoping to at least close 2011 with a bang. New name, new page... all that good good.

I've noticed that some people like to stay on my Facebook page and watch all my moves, so I thought I'd give ya'll the honor to actually read my blog and that way ya'll might stop snooping around on my FB page. Ya ain't gonna find much there btw!
In regards to the name (cos I know ya wondering), it's taken from a conversation I had with a bartender at KRESS over two years ago. And that is all my friends.
Enjoy!

Somaya Reece

Only God knows why I started watching 'For Love And Hip Hop' second season, but I can hands down say, all those girls are irritating. Somaya.... I'm not even gonna say something. If you watch the show then we probably think the same thing. However, I googled Somaya and she can look quite decent if she fixes up and doesn't act ratchet. So please Somaya, tone it down. Sometimes less is more!

Michael Kors

Was over at Michael Kors website and came across a few looks I wouldn't mind having in my wardrobe for all kinds of occasions. NYE (not that I go out on NYE but uhm..), casual, dress up, fancy, party... 

Some of them had a juicy price tag so I'm not gonna bother adding them, but check out the site for in dept interest.

The difference between UK and US pt. 1

My friend Sophia put me on to this song, and today I actually studied the video and came to the conclusion that UK music is so different from US music in so many ways (duh!).

What really hit me with this video is that Katy B (or Ms Dynamite) actually doesn't have to get half nekkid for the video to work. Unlike many US artists.

Majority of US artists and their videos somehow must incorporate ass, tits or any type of "sexiness" or else the video is considered a "flop".

And yes, I am taking in to consideration that US music is all about making money and less about the actual music. Sad times are ahead of us....

Anyways, make sure you listen to the song if you haven't already.

I keep on moving with the lights on..... 

Flat iron tutorial

For those who know me, knows I've been on a hair journey for the past year.

I'm almost at my target aim, but I've raised the bar a few inches so hopefully I'll be where I wanna be around March! (the greed!!!)

Anyways, my hair stylist does some real magic wonders when she flat irons my hair and whenever I try it never seems to work (well duh!).

I stumbled across this flat iron tutorial guide and I absolutely love her results!

Not too many products to weigh down the hair, and her hair is thick like mine so I'm familiar with the frustration when hair won't go bone straight.

Anyways, enjoy this tutorial and try it out!

UB40 - Can't help falling in love with you (video)

I always surprise myself when I watch this video and realize the lead singer is white and not black.

Anyways this is one of my favorite reggae songs from back in the days lol.

But I can't help, falling in love... with....you!

Enjoy!

NBA lockout

I'm stubborn, but these NBA people are beyond stubborn and selfish.
Like, can we have a season please? We're already past due start of a season and minor things keep happening.
Two days ago NBA commission and the union had a follow up meeting of what was supposed to be a potential seal dealer (ye I made that word up, lol). All went well until last minute when yet another disagreement occurred.
From what I understand, the players want 52.3% of the royalties (from NBA gear, jerseys, tickets etc) and NBA is not having it. We can look at it like "oh, we are missing out on a season 'cos of 2%" but in when we are talking about millions of dollars, those 2% means buuuuuusiness!
Anyways NBA, get it together! All November games are cancelled already :-(