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About Me

My name is Mindy and I am a wife and mother of 2 boys, Ages 20 and 12. I recently started on the path of becoming a nurse something i have wanted to do since i was 11 !

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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Surrender , Stick a fork in me , Im Done , What Ever...



You want to call it ! I told the hubs tonight , either I get a personal trainer or I get a fill, you take your pic, you pick what comes out of your wallet , but something has to happen, change ! Im slipping further and further back into old habits, larger sizes, and more and more weight is coming on ! I cant , wont and refuse to let it go on anymore.
Depression is setting in , excessive shopping is coming out to make me feel better.

So what did he chose ? A fill ! Cheaper for his pocket book !
Im going to talk to my surgeon , explain to him what is going on with me medically and see if I can try a small fill to control my hunger. I think he'll be ok with it.
I'll have to be extra careful to not throw up , PB ( YES People PBing and throwing up are the SAME thing and WILL make you slip your band ) since I have slipped my band twice already . So I am most likely going to go next week or the week after.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Cosmo Freebies and Discounts !


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Sunday, January 16, 2011

Treatment #4 Laser Hair Removal

I did another treatment of the Silk N SenseEpil Laser hair removal system tonight. Since I was told by the people at Silk N SenseEpil that it would be ok with excessive hair growth that is cause by the PCOS to use the machine every week , I went ahead and did it a week apart .


This time I used level "3" I guess you could call it, the light was on the 3rd bar. I treated my upper lip , chin , under arms as well as my bikini area . ( I have only treated the bikini area twice). The treatment on some area's stung a little bit more than the other setting . It did not hurt .

I have noticed a small difference in the hair growth . It does not seem as coarse either. I would say there is a 10-20% difference since I started the treatment. Nothing major but just a little. Next week Im going to bump the laser up one more level. I believe there are 5 . I may try one under arm at 4 and if that is ok I will try the highest. I think I will get the most results the fastest with the highest setting.

The Hairs on my Chinny Chin Chin ! ( pics)


Ok .. It is not easy to get a clear picture of the little hairs on my chinny chin chin ! So this was the best I could do .
This was before last weeks treatment and this is A DAYS growth . I look like this (or WORSE ) every morning .
The hair is very coarse and black.
I'll try to figure out how to take a better picture. I could do my under arms but I know those of us with PCOS , the issue is on our chins and face so I will stick with this if its helpful to everyone. Also not the "razor burn" on my chin ! That's lovely too.
So there ya go . I hope you can see the problem ok .

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Pictures for Laser Hair Removal

So it seems a few people want to see pictures of my progress with the Silk N SenseEpil Laser hair removal system.
Ive tried to take a few pictures and its kind of hard to tell since its of my chin. So im going to try this weekend and maybe try my under arms. I know gross huh ? LOL

I am very happy though . Silk N SenseEpil emailed me on Facebook and sent me a coupon code to help me get more light cartridges. I am excited because I know its going to take some time for me ( or I think , i might be pleasantly surprised ) to get results , so i'll need all the help I can get !
You can google "SensEpil coupon" for coupon codes !

The cartridges are not as expensive as I thought they might be . Since I am doing my face it should not take too many of them .
See pictures here !

This is what they look like .

Light Cartridges.

Let me figure out how to get some pictures to show up and I'll post my progress.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

At Home Laser Hair Removal ..PCOS Up the Treatments !

I had posted a message on the Silk N SensEpil's Facebook page a few days ago asking if anyone knew if you can use the Sense N Sense Epil weekly . Because of my PCOS i know its going to take me a long time to get things rolling on the hair removal. Using it weekly however might just help things move even at an average speed for me.

One of the nice people who run the page answered me and I was VERY happy to find that they said they thought because PCOS cause excessive ( increased) hair growth that it would be ok. She suggested maybe even treating one under arm once a week and the other every other to see what the difference is.
So... I will be doing that. She also asked me if i would be putting pictures up of my progress. I am not sure. Pit pics I might do ! ( gross I know) But facial pics I dont know . I could, its just so embarrassing ! I guess if it works in the long run what does it matter huh ?
What do y'all think . PICS or No pics ?

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