Sunday, December 22, 2013
Quinetta Taylor & FFC
*This video is courtesy of Fitness Formula Clubs and the 2014 Year of Wellness campaign
Could This Be the Beginning of Something Big....
Loooooovies!!!! There has been soooooo many great things happening for me! I'm in utter disbelief that God has chosen me to experience all of this but I'm so grateful that his favor is upon me. I feel like the beginning of something BIG is starting to take form and I'm so ready to walk into my greatness!!!
After I began dialysis and quit my job, I realized that Social Services wasn't my destiny. I learned MANY life lessons and a lot about myself counseling the mentally ill but it and Psychology wasn't something I saw myself doing long term. So at the ripe age of 27 I was faced with that looming question..."What do I want to do with my life?" After getting involved with FFC and the Gift of Hope and seeing how my story effects people...after MANY nights of praying and crying out to God to speak to me about my purpose one day it randomly hit me...I want to go around the world sharing my life story with the hope to motivate people to be the best version of themselves. I want to help people to understand that the process of changing is NOT easy but it is so gratifying. I want to show people the beauty of going through your process so that you reach your destiny. Now the question is...how do I do that???
In the recent weeks I have been given some awesome opportunities to not only get my story out to others but my face also. This is important because once people can place a face with a name it brings a story to life. As part of the 2014 Year of Wellness promotion, there was an actual video clip made about me and my story. I'm going to include it in a separate post but the feedback I received from it was OVERwhelming. So many people became emotional hearing it and it means something to mean that I can touch others that way. I was asked to participate in FFC's commercial that will begin running in the new year. So many other things are in the works for 2014 and I'm just so excited about each and every opportunity!
And that brings me back to my destiny...until the world has heard my story I'm going to utilize every outlet that I can to essentially share myself...including this blog. With all of the recent attention, my baby has been gaining attention too! It's time I make it a priority so that when people take the time to read it, they are getting quality content and a real glimpse into me. I am going to start off by committing to blog twice a week. A recipe blog and a topic that is relevant to me at the time. Whether it's about my workouts (which have been brutal lately...but I can say that last week I ran for the first time in my life...PROUD PROUD moment!)...slacking off with my eating (this happens time to time...like today, lol)...life post-op once I have my tummy tuck...or just keeping myself encouraged to finish this journey.
It is my wish that you will continue with me as my life begins to gain momentum. This started out as a blog to document the road to getting a transplant but my life has turned into so much more!!! Join me as I walk into my destiny and let's see together just where it takes me :)
After I began dialysis and quit my job, I realized that Social Services wasn't my destiny. I learned MANY life lessons and a lot about myself counseling the mentally ill but it and Psychology wasn't something I saw myself doing long term. So at the ripe age of 27 I was faced with that looming question..."What do I want to do with my life?" After getting involved with FFC and the Gift of Hope and seeing how my story effects people...after MANY nights of praying and crying out to God to speak to me about my purpose one day it randomly hit me...I want to go around the world sharing my life story with the hope to motivate people to be the best version of themselves. I want to help people to understand that the process of changing is NOT easy but it is so gratifying. I want to show people the beauty of going through your process so that you reach your destiny. Now the question is...how do I do that???
In the recent weeks I have been given some awesome opportunities to not only get my story out to others but my face also. This is important because once people can place a face with a name it brings a story to life. As part of the 2014 Year of Wellness promotion, there was an actual video clip made about me and my story. I'm going to include it in a separate post but the feedback I received from it was OVERwhelming. So many people became emotional hearing it and it means something to mean that I can touch others that way. I was asked to participate in FFC's commercial that will begin running in the new year. So many other things are in the works for 2014 and I'm just so excited about each and every opportunity!
And that brings me back to my destiny...until the world has heard my story I'm going to utilize every outlet that I can to essentially share myself...including this blog. With all of the recent attention, my baby has been gaining attention too! It's time I make it a priority so that when people take the time to read it, they are getting quality content and a real glimpse into me. I am going to start off by committing to blog twice a week. A recipe blog and a topic that is relevant to me at the time. Whether it's about my workouts (which have been brutal lately...but I can say that last week I ran for the first time in my life...PROUD PROUD moment!)...slacking off with my eating (this happens time to time...like today, lol)...life post-op once I have my tummy tuck...or just keeping myself encouraged to finish this journey.
It is my wish that you will continue with me as my life begins to gain momentum. This started out as a blog to document the road to getting a transplant but my life has turned into so much more!!! Join me as I walk into my destiny and let's see together just where it takes me :)
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Did he just say that to me???
Now, I usually don't go into detail about my doctor's appointments, simply because I don't see the need to, but this one was so bizarre, I would be doing you a GREAT injustice not to share.
So, this doctor is only in clinic for consultations on Monday afternoons...so I had to rearrange my dialysis treatment to be there at 1 pm...so, at 3 pm he still hadn't arrived to the clinic because he was at another hospital operating on a patient. So, I'm a bit frustrated because I had to go through A LOT to rearrange my treatment and at that point I'm thinking I may have to go through all of that again because this man may not show up. Moments later, a man with the wildest hair, several briefcases and a cane with an arm brace comes rushing past yelling, "If it were you on the table, you would want me to stay until I finished also!"...and all I could think was, this will be interesting.
I get in the examining room and the nurse tells me to get undressed from the waist up and put on a gown...that sounds about right to me since I'm there about my stomach. A couple minutes later the doctor comes in as I'm sitting on the examination table and motions for me to come to him. Okay. So now I'm standing in front of him and the next thing I know, this man starts to rip my gown off and tell me to drop my pants and underwear!!! I am a VERY modest person so it was so alarming to me that I starting pulling back asking him what the eff he was doing??? He says, "I need to see everything so I know where I need to cut!" Couldn't he simply have asked me to undress instead of taking it upon himself to do it for me? So, as I'm standing there a-hole naked in front of a man and nurse I don't know he begins poking and prodding at my stomach and asks me, "How did it get so big?????" I tell him, "That's why I'm here to see you sir, to get rid of it!" At this point, I KNOW this appointment ain't gonna be good. Next, he asks me to hold my stomach up and proceeds to tell me I have a scrotum. Did he really just say that to me????? I tell him, "NO I DON'T!!!" He then says that mine is bigger than his! At this point his nurse interjects to tell him he's being inappropriate and just plain crass. And then he took pictures so somewhere in that hospital, on an iPad there are a bunch of pictures that don't make me smile on the inside. He then show's me where he's going to cut and then says I have too much skin on my honeypot so he's going to cut that too so its proportionate, and he's going to do that as a favor to me. Look, NOBODY said anything about cutting my fig and pudding! It was served me well for 30 years...no complaints! I proceeded to get dress and haven't remembered what normal feels like since. I was absolutely traumatized and have no expectations for this surgery. Please keep me and my scrotum in your thoughts as we get ready to go under the knife in a few months. I swear I feel like these kind of things only happen to me, lol
So, this doctor is only in clinic for consultations on Monday afternoons...so I had to rearrange my dialysis treatment to be there at 1 pm...so, at 3 pm he still hadn't arrived to the clinic because he was at another hospital operating on a patient. So, I'm a bit frustrated because I had to go through A LOT to rearrange my treatment and at that point I'm thinking I may have to go through all of that again because this man may not show up. Moments later, a man with the wildest hair, several briefcases and a cane with an arm brace comes rushing past yelling, "If it were you on the table, you would want me to stay until I finished also!"...and all I could think was, this will be interesting.
I get in the examining room and the nurse tells me to get undressed from the waist up and put on a gown...that sounds about right to me since I'm there about my stomach. A couple minutes later the doctor comes in as I'm sitting on the examination table and motions for me to come to him. Okay. So now I'm standing in front of him and the next thing I know, this man starts to rip my gown off and tell me to drop my pants and underwear!!! I am a VERY modest person so it was so alarming to me that I starting pulling back asking him what the eff he was doing??? He says, "I need to see everything so I know where I need to cut!" Couldn't he simply have asked me to undress instead of taking it upon himself to do it for me? So, as I'm standing there a-hole naked in front of a man and nurse I don't know he begins poking and prodding at my stomach and asks me, "How did it get so big?????" I tell him, "That's why I'm here to see you sir, to get rid of it!" At this point, I KNOW this appointment ain't gonna be good. Next, he asks me to hold my stomach up and proceeds to tell me I have a scrotum. Did he really just say that to me????? I tell him, "NO I DON'T!!!" He then says that mine is bigger than his! At this point his nurse interjects to tell him he's being inappropriate and just plain crass. And then he took pictures so somewhere in that hospital, on an iPad there are a bunch of pictures that don't make me smile on the inside. He then show's me where he's going to cut and then says I have too much skin on my honeypot so he's going to cut that too so its proportionate, and he's going to do that as a favor to me. Look, NOBODY said anything about cutting my fig and pudding! It was served me well for 30 years...no complaints! I proceeded to get dress and haven't remembered what normal feels like since. I was absolutely traumatized and have no expectations for this surgery. Please keep me and my scrotum in your thoughts as we get ready to go under the knife in a few months. I swear I feel like these kind of things only happen to me, lol
For All the Wrong Reasons...
Hello my lovies!!! While I sit and enjoy my snack of mandarin oranges mixed with pineapple greek yogurt (it will change your life), I decided to share my thoughts.
Soooooo, my tummy tuck has been scheduled. It's not for about another 3 months *rolls eyes* but my Dad will be having surgery next week so that gives us plenty of time to get him all mended first. Now, let us talk about this tucketh of my tummy.
It's not a secret that I have a STRONG dislike for my butt in the front. My stomach has been large my entire life and having it go away has always been a wish of mine. I wasn't the chubby girl who was lucky to be thick at the bottom...mine sat right in front for the WORLD to see! I knew that when I started this weight loss journey that my stomach probably would not disappear the way many people's do...only because it was so much...and I was right. I've mentioned that because of this, I don't like taking full length pictures. While the rest of me looks very different (although maybe not as different as I thought, but I'll save that for a future post), my stomach just hasn't caught up. There is some definite progress, just not enough. In dealing with that, it got me to thinking about body issues in general.
Quiet as it's kept, a lot of women lose weight for superficial reasons...maybe that's not so quiet, lol. Some women do it to look better, some do it to make themselves more attractive to people...I've even known women who've lost weight hoping that it will help them to get married. The best reason to lose weight is for yourself, because it can open a Pandora's box of other issues. For instance, I've lost a substantial amount of weight. I was ecstatic because I felt my body would look better and I would be a little more confident in showing it. I didn't know that a whole new set of insecurities could creep in and settle themselves. Because I've lost a lot of weight, I have skin. It just hangs...ripples a bit...you could liken it to raw chicken on a bad day. Now, I know over time as I continue to work out and lift that it will tone up but that doesn't exactly help me today. So before my insecurity was being heavy...now my insecurity is loose skin...do you see where I'm going with this? No matter what, there will be something that physically you may not like about yourself, so if you're losing weight for the wrong reasons you will end up disappointed. If I was losing weight for a man, the LAST thing I would want him to see is me looking like a Perdue whole fryer, lol. That's why you have to be comfortable in the skin that you're in.
Well, that statement may make you wonder, "Then why are you having the tummy tuck?!??" I'm so glad you asked! One, it will make putting the kidney in easier once I have my transplant, thus making it medically necessary. But my biggest point is if that tummy tuck wasn't an option, I would have to be comfortable in the skin that I was in, butt in the front or not. I can eat clean to lean out my abs and do all types of ab work to define and shape them, but if I wasn't meant to have a washboard stomach, I would just have to accept it. I can be honest...I am tall and curveless...except for my chest, lol. I don't have a curvy shape that many women are pumping their bodies full of foreign matter to get and I'm okay with that. Now, in no way am I putting down anyone who chooses to alter their bodies to feel more comfortable in their skin. What I am saying is check your motives for WHY you're doing it...is it for you? If you were forced to live your life without that procedure, could you do it? I understand this tummy tuck is not a quick fix and that afterwards I will still be chubby and need to lose additional weight...and I am okay with that. We have to make sure we aren't being fueled by all of the wrong reasons.
So, February 25th is the day lovies!!! Until then, I will still train hard, eat right (most of the time) and keep on this journey because it's for a lifetime.
Soooooo, my tummy tuck has been scheduled. It's not for about another 3 months *rolls eyes* but my Dad will be having surgery next week so that gives us plenty of time to get him all mended first. Now, let us talk about this tucketh of my tummy.
It's not a secret that I have a STRONG dislike for my butt in the front. My stomach has been large my entire life and having it go away has always been a wish of mine. I wasn't the chubby girl who was lucky to be thick at the bottom...mine sat right in front for the WORLD to see! I knew that when I started this weight loss journey that my stomach probably would not disappear the way many people's do...only because it was so much...and I was right. I've mentioned that because of this, I don't like taking full length pictures. While the rest of me looks very different (although maybe not as different as I thought, but I'll save that for a future post), my stomach just hasn't caught up. There is some definite progress, just not enough. In dealing with that, it got me to thinking about body issues in general.
Quiet as it's kept, a lot of women lose weight for superficial reasons...maybe that's not so quiet, lol. Some women do it to look better, some do it to make themselves more attractive to people...I've even known women who've lost weight hoping that it will help them to get married. The best reason to lose weight is for yourself, because it can open a Pandora's box of other issues. For instance, I've lost a substantial amount of weight. I was ecstatic because I felt my body would look better and I would be a little more confident in showing it. I didn't know that a whole new set of insecurities could creep in and settle themselves. Because I've lost a lot of weight, I have skin. It just hangs...ripples a bit...you could liken it to raw chicken on a bad day. Now, I know over time as I continue to work out and lift that it will tone up but that doesn't exactly help me today. So before my insecurity was being heavy...now my insecurity is loose skin...do you see where I'm going with this? No matter what, there will be something that physically you may not like about yourself, so if you're losing weight for the wrong reasons you will end up disappointed. If I was losing weight for a man, the LAST thing I would want him to see is me looking like a Perdue whole fryer, lol. That's why you have to be comfortable in the skin that you're in.
Well, that statement may make you wonder, "Then why are you having the tummy tuck?!??" I'm so glad you asked! One, it will make putting the kidney in easier once I have my transplant, thus making it medically necessary. But my biggest point is if that tummy tuck wasn't an option, I would have to be comfortable in the skin that I was in, butt in the front or not. I can eat clean to lean out my abs and do all types of ab work to define and shape them, but if I wasn't meant to have a washboard stomach, I would just have to accept it. I can be honest...I am tall and curveless...except for my chest, lol. I don't have a curvy shape that many women are pumping their bodies full of foreign matter to get and I'm okay with that. Now, in no way am I putting down anyone who chooses to alter their bodies to feel more comfortable in their skin. What I am saying is check your motives for WHY you're doing it...is it for you? If you were forced to live your life without that procedure, could you do it? I understand this tummy tuck is not a quick fix and that afterwards I will still be chubby and need to lose additional weight...and I am okay with that. We have to make sure we aren't being fueled by all of the wrong reasons.
So, February 25th is the day lovies!!! Until then, I will still train hard, eat right (most of the time) and keep on this journey because it's for a lifetime.
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