World of Weightcraft

   So it’s been quite some time since I’ve updated and to be honest we’ve been stressed and busy. I figure it’s a good time to update everyone on what’s happening for the Carlsons.     First, we’re in California safely. There were no major hiccups with the move other than we took a bit longer than expected to get here. We had estimated about 4 days but it was closer to 6 because Ron is not as confident in his driving skills as I am. We eventually traded and I drove the truck because he got to the point where he was barely going above 40 on the highway because of the wind. Turns out we didn’t pack the truck the best and with the wind things got shifted around from the truck being blown around. On the 4th day I said told him I couldn’t do this anymore and I took over after we shifted the truck around a bit to even out the load because it was starting to tilt to one side while driving, it was a bit frightening to watch lol. I didn’t have a problem dri...

   Well it's been quite some time since the last blog post because honestly I've been so stressed. We move in two weeks so you can imagine where my mind is right now. I know I've gained weight but I've packed the scale away and I have no idea what I weigh right now and honestly I don't want to know. I feel the stress of keeping up with my weight will just make things worse at the moment. My main concern is packing and getting everything ready, seeing family, seeing friends, and just trying to stay afloat. Regularly I feel like my brain is fried. I'm definitely depressed and stressed out because this is a huge move for us and scary. But aside from this things are going wellish, I mean it's a move all kinds of stuff goes wrong but we're just trucking along with everything. Currently, I am in a hazy state of just-let-me-look-at-this-wall-for-a-few-hours it's hard to concentrate on anything.    We did have our going away party last Saturday and it ...

   Good morning all! It has been over a week since I posted and there's a reason for that, last weekend was Dragon Con! So last week I was very busy preparing for Dragon Con and getting ready for the weekend. I recorded and took a lot of photos for GirlStreamers if you want to see what I've done please check out our Instagram page (https://www.instagram.com/girlstreamers/?hl=en). I edited every day what I recorded and put it up on Instagram TV. It's interesting because the format is for the phone so it's 1080x1920. I need to work out a way to be able to record more than just IGTV during weekends like this; I would have enjoyed having that footage for youtube later as a big video at the end of the weekend but it just didn't look right so I scrapped that. I definitely need a team to help me do coverage if I want to do both. I used the camera and mic the first day but ended up having to stretch it and change the format so I chose to use the phone the rest of the weeken...

So it's another late night post again because I've just been having a rough time. I gained 5lbs this week but I know it's because of my stress eating. I will lose it I just have to put into practice what I wrote about earlier. The biggest issue is that my shoulder is really killing me. Its hard to explain the pain but I struggle to sleep when it hurts and I struggle to sit in a comfortable position in my chair so sitting in front of a computer is excruciating at times. I've tried to stretch it out but to no avail. I don't know if it's a pinched nerve, a muscle issue, or even a bone issue. I'm gonna see if we can go to the doctor and get a referral to a chiropractor. I feel that going to a chiro and maybe a massage therapist will help my shoulder. It's so painful I hate dealing with this pain and I've never had any shoulder issues I don't know why or where this came from. I mean I'm sure that the stress of everything is not helping so yeah I...

So today was weigh in day and I am down to 265.5 I am 15 pounds away from my first goal I'm so excited! This week has kind of been a meh week nothing too extraordinary has happened. I don't have any words of wisdom this week I'm sorry. This is not going to be the best blog. I do appreciate all the feedback from last week's post I'm glad that you all enjoyed it so much! It kind of happened out of nowhere I started writing and it just started flowing out so naturally I had to do some research. I wanted to be able to provide other sources to help you all out as well as give my own experience. I got a request to give our lasagna boat recipe, I will make sure to do that next week I didn't have the stuff to make it this week. I like to try and provide pictures when I have a recipe for you. On another note I went to visit my folks last weekend and it was a nice time. We ended up burning some old paper work in their burn barrel, if you don't know what that is...

Good morning! I was just not feeling the writing bug yesterday so this blog is coming to you on Thursday morning. So as always yesterday was weigh in day and I was worried with my slip in food that I had gained 5 pounds but no I actually ended up losing. I'm glad I lost weight but I don't want to get into the habit of eating poorly and expecting these results because that's not how it works. I've gotten back to keto and honestly I am full and satisfied on the keto diet I just get cravings for certain foods sometimes when I'm super stressed. I stress eat my comfort foods which I have to find a way to counter that and change that behavior because its a bad habit to have. How I'm going to counter that I have no idea. I hate the idea of just “powering through” because sometimes that makes stuff worse when you try to power through and ignore the cravings. I know why I crave them too, for the record my comfort foods are things like fried chicken and potatoes. That t...

Heyo this one is going out late because I have been streaming and then doing other things so I'm now sitting down to actually write a blog post. I am sick? I say it with a question mark because I am just tired and have a crappy cough that keeps me up at night. I don't know if its because of moving and all the dust, from the black mold growing in our bathroom, or an actual cold/flu. Before you say it, yes we've told the front office about the mold, no they haven't done anything about it. Yes, we are contacting the proper people about it. Anyway, I fell off the bandwagon and ate comfort foods the last two days because I've felt like shit but that's ok I am hoping back on tomorrow morning. Before I get too much further I did weigh in today and I have gained 1 pound. That could be a big poop or water or whatever. I'm not too concerned over 1 pound. Now to move on, to what's been going on aside from this persistent cough. I'm pretty sure its due to...

Heyo! So it's been a crazy couple of weeks and I realize I did not write last week. I missed Wednesday and Thursday and after that I got busy doing packing things and just forgot about it till Sunday and at that point I might as well wait till today! I was determined to write this today so I'm going to be late for my stream because of it but dangit I'm gonna write it! So last week I didn't gain or lose anything I just maintained which is good. Other than that I just set up stuff to start packing. Oh we're moving to California in 6 weeks so we have a lot of stuff going on right now. Hubby went to New York for a friend's 50 th and had a blast. He felt good showing off his progress everyone was really impressed! I'm so proud of him. He is almost in the 200 club ya'll it's awesome. What else? Oh we packed half his books and our dining room is getting filled so we need to transfer some stuff to storage and that's about it for last week aside from w...

So today's blog is probably going to be a short one considering my last week was pretty intense with work. I took the week off from streaming to focus on the documentary I was transcribing and to make time for the nephew since he came out to visit. I had a lovely time with my nephew and so glad I took that time to spend with him. He's 18 months now and he's growing so fast. It's crazy how spending time with this kid is so fulfilling, he's part of the reason I'm ok not having kids. I seriously love this kid so so so very much. I know that I am not a parent but I am a pseudo parent as an aunt and not just any aunt I'm an active one. If I can be half as good as my aunt was I'll be a good aunt. I remember going and doing all the things with Aunt Brenda. She nurtured the creativity in me, she was one of the people who gave me my love of films and the movie making process. She was herself an amazing photographer. She loved life and lived it to the fullest an...

Good afternoon! So today's blog deliberately comes to you on Thursday because yesterday was July 4 th and since we're 'Mericans we decided to go spend the day with my parents and nephew so we were not at the house all day. I did remember to step on the scale yesterday before leaving and I'm proud to say I have now lost 16.8 lbs!  Very proud of this achievement! I'm so excited I'm so close to my goal for Twitchcon! I set myself up for a reasonable goal to hit for Twitchcon, I started at 289 and I wanted to hit 250 by then so that's only 39 lbs but I didn't start doing Keto until May which is also when I started doing a friendly weight competition among Convert to Raid friends. CTR is a WoW guild that has a lot of friends in it that I have gained over the years and they have a friendly competition through out the year for folks to work towards fitness goals and hit them by Blizzcon, well since I'm not going to Blizzcon I'm going to Twit...

Yesterday was my weigh in day and normal blog posting day. Hey look at least I'm getting this out weekly instead of once in a blue moon. I'm trying here lol. Anyway, I stepped on the scale and I am back on track after eating crappy on my birthday. Let me tell you I am not doing a cheat day anymore it's too difficult on the Keto diet. My body has been trying to get back on track meaning I've been in the bathroom for pooping at least 4 – 5 times a day. Needless to say I don't want to go through that again so I'll stick with not having an occasional cheat day. Unfortunately, I've found out that this diet is not cheat day friendly, this is not to say you can't have the occasional piece of cake or something but please be aware of your carb intake when having said cake. Make sure you have the carbs to eat it. I don't really have much else to chat about this week as far as my diet goes. I need to prepare some recipes to have for future posts, if you have...

Good day my friends. Today is weigh in day and I have gained 2 pounds but I don't mind because it was my birthday this weekend and I wanted cake! I am proud of myself for only having one piece of a small cake we bought at Kroger. It was tasty and lovely, #worth. Seriously though I know I can lose it again I just have to get back into Ketosis and that usually takes a couple of days so next week should be a better week for me! I had a lovely week though especially the weekend; we went kayaking Saturday with friends and it was so fun. I've never been Kayaking and that's what I wanted to do and it was so fun I want a kayak! Too bad I have no where to keep one. After kayaking we went to this Greek restaurant with some other friends who were unable to join us down the river and holy cow such good food. Basically I ate a lot this weekend so I'd say a two pound weight gain is not so bad! I don't really have much of an update on that front but I do have an update for ...

Good morning! So I realize today is Thursday not Wednesday but to be frank I completely forgot to write up a blog yesterday. I was a little discouraged yesterday morning because I'd gained weight but looking at the grand scale, I gained less than a pound and I had seafood the previous night for dinner and it always makes me bloat a little bit. I'd say all in all I maintained considering Sunday I had chinese for dinner which is NOT Keto. One thing I have to say about Sunday's dinner, I did not enjoy it quite as much as I usually enjoy chinese. I feel my taste buds are changing significantly on this diet especially when it comes to foods with added sugar. The toughest part about this is not avoiding the added sugars its avoiding the foods that turn into sugars like potatoes, breads, pasta, and other high starch foods. One of my favorite foods is a nice big sandwich. I love adding all the veggies like tomato, lettuce, spinach, etc with my meat and cheese and that's simpl...

As I sit here eating my wrap I'm smiling to myself because Wednesdays are my weigh in days and guess what? I am finally under 280 lbs again! I know that's still too much but it's the small goals that matter. For those of you that don't know my most recent history I was diagnosed in 2016 with clinical/major depression and prescribed Lexapro and I ended up gaining 30 lbs in 2017 because of the meds. Since realizing that I struggle with this and its not all in my head er, I mean it's not me just making stuff up, it's been easier to combat it. The Lexapro has helped stabilize me but it doesn't stop me from being sad, it doesn't get rid of the depression like so many people think these medicines do. With medicine and therapy I have been able to build healthy coping skills, some of them I naturally created as a teenager just because I was trying to deal with it back then I just didn't realize what it was at the time. Anyway, I'm getting off topic my ...

Well, my desktop blotter said blog day today so that means I have to do a blog! Well good news I'm now in my second week of the Keto diet and its my weigh in! I have lost 2 lbs so far which is awesome because I have not gone in the right direction so long. It's definitely a confidence boost. This diet hasn't been as bad as I thought it would be, I haven't been super hungry on it and when I do get hungry I just have some sunflower seeds or another snack that helps cut that craving. I eat snacks like pork rinds, sunflower seeds, and cheese. There's virtually no or low carbs in them and they're tasty! They're also snacks I've never over indulged in, in the past so it helps a lot. My sweet tooth is still a struggle but Ron bought some popsicle maker things for a dollar and we just put in the flavored water in and no it isn't anything truly sweet because we use crystal light packets but takes care of that craving I've developed for dessert after din...

I miss writing in my blog and I realize It's been a year. I told ya'll I wasn't good at keeping up with all of this stuff regularly but that's ok that's just who I am. I've been told by several of my readers that they appreciate me putting myself out there and sharing my journey and to those of you who read this thank you. Thank you for telling me your stories and letting me know that I am not alone. The whole point of this is to show that we all have similar struggles. I applaud every one of you who struggle with things but keep going. Its hard to keep going when you're facing currently the worst thing you think you'll ever face; I'm here to tell you that if you keep going it will get easier to deal with. Life has seriously turned around from what it was just two years ago for me and while I still struggle and will always struggle with depression I'm in a very good and happy place. I love the work I do with GirlStreamers and we have so muc...