VoltronPaladin

Does that ticker show up on here?  I'm setting a goal of 10 to 15 pounds at a time, because yesterday morning I was having lower back pain so bad, just picking up my cat to cuddle her made me start to cry from the spasms.  Yes, I have a medicine for muscle relaxing, but I'm overweight and carry it in thighs, ass, and my belly. It makes me look like I'm due any day now, and I have yet to get pregnant.  I hate when people just ask 'when are you due?' or try to touch me without saying that dreaded question first.  And why the fuck would you touch a pregnant woman's belly without asking first? (another soapbox rant, another day).

I currently weigh 220 pounds, and I'm 5'7" tall and just turned 37.  I also have to get out of my highly toxic stressful physically over-demanding low-paying dead-end job to help with weight loss.  Ever since I started at the current job almost 2 years ago, the scale has NOT budged.  It's that awful.

My family isn't much help with stress, mother-in-law is a total attention-seeking diva who has no friends near her home or hobbies outside 'gardening' in the back yard and watching tv most of the day.
My mother is a control freak with health issues due to her stupid diet choices, thinks sugar-free and fat-free things are great, along with 'diet' drinks.  fake fats and sugars and things like that cause health issues like she has now, and I warned her to eat REAL food.  The her way or the highway attitude is bullshit.
My dad is due to retire from the U.S. Army before the end of the year, but being deployed to two war zones for over a year each time and he's no spring chicken has him possibly receiving veteran's disability... don't know, never heard of that benefit before.

My sister had a cancerous tumor in her brain, but by the grace of God, she's cancer-free! She has an awesome fiancee who is father to her two toddler aged children and an awesome step-dad to her oldest daughter by the soon-to- ex-husband (asshole alcoholic... good riddance).

But I will lose this weight one day at a time.  My plans are:
portion control
real ingredients of stuff i can pronounce if I can't make it at home myself
starting by walking to end of street and back, then push for walking to local drug store about 3/4 mile up the road and back, then walking with my dog once he gets his nails trimmed (long black doggy nails are best done professionally!).  Then I'll add some stretching yoga for the back issues I'm having and pilates basic stuff to keep getting flexible and limber again cause God knows I hate being stiff and in pain.

I hate leafy green vegetables like lettuce with a passion.  Lettuce actually upsets my stomach, as does lemon and peppermint.  Mistakenly grabbed peppermint flavor pepto bismol for diarrhea over the weekend, made it last longer...

If anyone would like to be a support system friend, I'm also on facebook. PM me on here, and I'll add you over there!

So I see we post a journal with pretty pictures about us and DA to get this wonderful little badge.  OK, then, here we go.

Posting on DA is actually better than showing art to real people locally, cause friends and family are the worst critics.  I'd rather post to random strangers who might actually understand what I'm drawing and where I'm going with it.

This site gave me the courage to draw anime, even if I'm drawing from a screenie of an episode I watched online.  Here's a good example of that:





So visit my gallery and comment there.  Constructive criticism really can help folks out sometimes.

My trainer name is Jennifer.
My friend code is: 2380-2574-5132.

My Friend Safari is Psychic.
It has Drowzee, Wobbuffet, and Gothorita. (yay...boring!)

Drop me a private message or comment here if you don't care about your FC being public.  Let me know what your safari is, too.

My favorite types of pokemon are POISON and FIRE.  Poison finally sees the light of being used again due to their strength against the FAIRY type!

Thanks everyone who visits and watches me.
I apologize for not posting some more stuff, but work and real life drama kinda gets in the way as of late.
I'm trying to learn to draw on a 3DS XL with the Art Academy game and Swapnote app game too.  It's tricky drawing with a freaking stylus.

I can't believe my gallery has been visited 1000 times.  This is so cool!
Everyone keep checking back often, cause once I figure out which cord goes with my scanner, I'll be slowly scanning and posting stuff from my high-school and college days.
So if you see JC instead of JS in the signature, that JC was my maiden name.