Is getting your REAL nails done at a nail salon a rip off?

I went today and I had my nails done. I took the majority of the tips off myself, but two I just couldn't remove. My nails were at a length that I was comfortable with so I knew it was time to maintain mine and not tips.

The nail technician had a hard time removing the two of them as well, so I ended up being in there longer than expected, making me late to pick my son up from school. Anyway.

She does all the normal stuff, but now all of a sudden you want to turn my nails into a square shape. Where did that come from? They don't grow that way so why would I want them to look like that? I don't get the concept behind square nails so anyone who gets their nails done in a square shape (tips or natural) please explain why?

Well she fixes it to the way that I like it and I am loving it. So you ask where does the rip off part come in at?

When getting tips, they file, put on the acrylic, and as the nail grows there is a gap and it needs to be filled. So yes please go and get it done professionally. But when you get your own nails done you can avoid having to FILL that gap if you know how to do everything else. Acrylic comes off of your nail so easily (or it is just me)that you can just start new every time you get your nails done. The shape of the nail is still there so there won't be lots of filing.

I plan on trying this. I am going to buy everything that I deem necessary to get my own nails done, and the next time they need to be done I will be doing it myself.

Now don't get me wrong, if I don't like the way that they turn out I will be right in the nail salon having them fix my mess up. Just to remember what they looked like before I get a hold of them here is a pic.

Burn more with bi-weekly exercise swaps

Well the title is pretty self explanatory, but what I am doing is 2 week exercise swaps. Last week I did a hard core ST routine. Although I did cardio everyday I kept the cardio very minimal.
This week I am doing a heavy cardio routine and I will keep my ST very minimal. Why?

I know that I have weight to lose and I know that cardio helps you lose weight, but the past has taught me that lack of ST makes a flabby FabDelka and I can't be flabby and fabulous-in my opinion- because these two don't mix.

So every 2 weeks I will keep everyone updated on my progress and how I am doing. For example these past 2 weeks I lost 2 lbs. So that's probably 1 lb lost a week. That's fine with me because this time around for some odd reason I am not in a rush to lose the weight. I gave myself until the end of the year to lose this 17 lbs (27 if I plan on having a baby).

I went to the gym today to kick the plan into motion. I started at home with Tae-bo, which everyone who knows me knows that Monday mornings are Kim Kardashian mornings.

She was my warm up, but I was short on time and kind of not in the mood for step aerobics. so Tae-bo fit my time constraints and my something new.

After dropping my son off at school , I proceeded to the gym and I first tried the elliptical. That doesn't work for me and my knee and I started feeling that at 5 minutes in so I stepped off the machine.

I then went to a machine that is something like an elliptical, but more like a Gazelle. I don't know the main of it, but I gave that machine 25 minutes and it felt really good. The calorie burn was great, but I eventually started feeling something different in my knee.

I then proceed to the...... yeah you guessed it. I hit the treadmill. Why would I do that when I know for a fact it messed with my knee last time?

I went to it, because I learned that I have to treat cardio the same way I treat weights- know when I hit my limit. So me breaking up the machines the way that I did was beneficial to me because no machine actual HURT my knee, I only started feeling a slight pain in it.

I was told to try it that way and see how I feel after that. So I will let it be known tomorrow. Hopefully I don't have any pain.

Am I that critical?

I went to the gym today and I was getting it in feeling really good. I was listening to my hot girl music and letting the uptempo beat really get me going. ANYWAY I noticed this one man in particular looking in my direction. So I said he is not looking at me because I don't feel sexy when I am at a fat point in my life so if I don't feel that way no one should be looking at me as though I am. THIS IS MY OPINION.
Anyway long story short, he tried to talk to me and I let him know that I am married and we both kept it moving in opposite directions. So my question is he (and others I felt no need to discuss) find me attractive at this weight, why is it that I don't see it? Am I that critical.

Back at it....with Planet Fitness

I went to the gym this morning. Can we say A-mazing. Literally. I know I am going to be sore tomorrow, but the feeling that I felt after and the feeling that I feel now as I type this is A-mazing.
I had to ask myself what was the hesitation before when it came to joining the gym. I don't know/remember what the reason was for not joining before but I am glad that I moved beyond it.
I know that this is the missing piece to the maintenance phase of weight loss that I never seem to achieve for whatever reason.
I lose the same 15 lbs over and over and for the first time in my life it is more than 15. It is now 25. Unreal but real.
I want to see what I can achieve in these few months before 2010 ends. I put myself on a 90 day gym challenge, because they say it takes 90 days to see the difference so I am giving myself that and if achieved I have to reward myself for the new year. I haven't figured out what the reward should be. Does anyone have any ideas.