I bought my Polar FT4 Watch on eBay for $64.50 with free shipping from the seller Heart Rate Monitors USA. It’s the cheapest price I could find online. I opted to buy from eBay instead of Amazon, because I received eBay Bucks for my purchase and overall it was just cheaper. HRM USA is the same company that sells it cheapest on Amazon as well. Anyway, I can’t wait to get it and start using it.

I’ve also started using the MyFitnessPal application/website again. It’s an amazing website where you can track your food and exercise. The food bank on the site is extremely large, I’m almost positive every food item you could think of is already entered in there. My favorite part (and what makes me want to keep entering daily logs) is the scanner feature. You scan the foods bar code and it automatically brings up the item. It’s really neat! Please feel free to Friend Me if you’d like. That’s all I really wanted to talk about in this post! Wish me luck on my journey to eating more healthy and exercising more. I’m going to work some on my blog now, fixing things up and such. I can’t decide on themes/plugins for the life of me. Have a great day!

Have you ever watched The Secret? You can find it here: Netflix: The Secret. It’s an amazing and empowering film on how to achieve anything and make all your dreams come true. There is also The Secret book, but I have not read that yet. As cliche as it sounds, it’s an eye opener that makes you think twice about your current state of life. Here’s some things I learned from The Secret. The first time I watched it by myself, the second time I made my parents watch it with me. While I was watching it for the 2nd time I took some notes.

The most important thing mentioned in The Secret is the Law of Attraction. Basically, you attract to you what you want out of life, and what you need out of life. Whatever you’re thinking of is what you’re going to attract. You become, and attract, what you think. If you’re thinking negatively, you’ll attract more negative people to you. People always think about what they don’t want and attract more of the same… things they don’t want. Your thoughts become things.

“You don’t have to know how to do something to be able to do it.”

Your thoughts cause your feelings. To monitor your thoughts, use your feelings. Your thoughts and your feelings are what create your life. If you think about what you don’t want, you don’t want to feel bad… you will feel bad. It’s true. Instead, think to yourself, I want to feel good.

The creative process to success discussed in The Secret contains 3 simple steps. They are:

1. ASK
2. BELIEVE
3. RECEIVE

Anything you need in life that you want, you will get. Because it will be attracted to you. “Ask and you shall receive.” You have to believe you already own your dream car before you even own it. Know how it feels as if you already drive it and park it in your driveway. You have to know what you want, not what you don’t want.

I’m not going to give too much away, I want you to watch The Secret yourself. It’s an amazing film, if you take it seriously and do as they say. You’re meant to live an amazing life, so why not try your hardest to make the best of it? I’ll end this post with this final quote:

“Whether you think you can or think you cannot, you are right.” — Henry Ford

This is Snooki, she’s a minx cat. She has no tail! ^_^ & she is so affectionate.

This is Lady, Snooki’s evil (biological) sister. She is the definition of curious.

This would be my baby kitten named Cali. I rescued her. I brought her back to life. : )

She loves to pose, obviously. . .

I love my cats. Is 3 too many? I want more. These babies are very spoiled. ; )

Photo courtesy of myself, featuring my adorable manx cat, Snooki.

Thought I would blog a little on how I’m doing with my resolutions. In the beginning of 2012, during January and February, I wasn’t really keeping up with all of them. This month though I am really working harder on changing my lifestyle and bettering myself. My number one goal is still my number one goal, and I am trying really hard as well as working my butt off to keep trying to lose weight. I started exercising every day. I’m excited because we actually devoted a room in my house for exercising. Our treadmill is in there, my weights, yoga mat, as well as extra room for a new piece of equipment which I hope to get soon. So that has been really great for me, I no longer have an excuse not to exercise since every thing I need is in the room right next to me. But, I should never of had an excuse not to exercise, just “moving around” is exercise. You don’t need equipment. Anyways, with that said, I probably won’t be using my gym membership. I know I wasted some money, but I might consider going if I feel more confident again to workout around other people. It ends in April, so I’m not sure if I will get there yet.

Since my dieting has begun again, I started eating healthier, I guess you could say. I am eating significantly different, trying to stay away from pop, fast food, and junk food. Which is all I used to eat, so it is hard for me. Some other resolutions I have been persistent on keeping is working on my websites. I’m motivated again to work on them and I have been working a lot on updating them instead of letting them sit. I plan to update them all regularly, and I also have plans for more websites in the future. As for other personal resolutions, I am studying a lot more for school to try and get all A’s, but I’m not sure if I will accomplish that. I’m turning out to be an “average” student in my classes (which are fairly large might I add), so I’m okay with that.

I haven’t spent much money at all, except for this last Wednesday, I caved and bought a tanning package for 3 months. I figured, since I am trying to lose weight and eat healthier, I want to look better. I hate being pale, I always have. And I know how bad tanning is for you, but I love being tan. It’s a win-lose for me. I haven’t bought any makeup or hygiene products recently either (no big purchases), I stopped collecting makeup awhile ago. I have way too much already, don’t need anymore! I’m definitely NOT cutting my hair. I have such low self-esteem right now, not only my weight and being super pale, but also because my hair is short. I used to have such long hair. It got shorter and shorter though through split ends from dying it so much. I decided to cut it with an A-Line style cut, and I absolutely hate it. I wish it would grow overnight.

As for YouTube, I have plans to make videos, but I haven’t gotten the hang of it yet. I really suck (in my opinion) at conveying any type of message through a video. I don’t like the way any videos I make turn out, so I end up deleting them. But I am not going to quit, I will try again soon. I haven’t started doing any of my favorite crafts yet, but it is on my to do list and I will be starting very soon. I can’t wait to blog about them and share them! I have started using my Canon more, and I have a huge load of pictures to edit and add to Flickr, that is on my to do list as well. Since I have become more occupied on doing things I actually need to do, I have significantly reduced doing things such as watching Netflix and procrastinating all of the time on websites I shouldn’t be on (Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube).

I think I am off to a good start, hopefully I keep at it. All of these changes have made me a happier person. Except when I look at this in the long run and think about how much work it’s going to take. I need to start thinking about today, and stop planning so much into the future. It’s my personality to plan though, so I don’t think that will change.

• Ugg Boots
• iPhone 4s/iPhone 5
  
• Canon Rebel T3i or some other better camera, can’t decide…
• Amazon Kindle
• Jeffrey Campbell Shoes
• Just Dance 3 (Wii)
• North Face Fleece
• Louis Vuitton Damier Azur Speedy 30

Edit (5/14/2013): Looking back at this post from last year, I have to say, I was being too materialistic. I no longer want any of those things, truthfully! By the way, I never wear my Uggs, probably because they are really uggly. My Canon basically just sits in its case! I need to use it more. Anyway, yeah. That’s all.