How to use normal birth control to have fewer periods or change their timing

Okay... "time of the month" isn't something most people want to talk about. I get that. But I'm going to make this info worth it- trust me. Birth control is expensive, not available where I live (this place is a bit backward...), and since I've no sex life to speak of, I've been conserving and using it to have fewer, lighter periods. First I need to state that I AM NOT A DOCTOR. I just took a course on hormones once, and basically learned that we haven't yet come across any really likely bad consequences of using hormones like the BC pill willy-nilly. Yet. YET. Okay, so how does getting preggers happen? You're ovulating and the egg gets fertilized. What does BC do? Keep you from ovulating. Note that this is exactly the same thing that Plan B does. A lot of people think Plan B is an "abortion pill" but it is just a super-dose of birth control that stops your body from starting fertilization. The difference is that BC is more reliable when used correctly but takes a while to kick in, while Plan B is a huge emergency dose to stop the natural hormone cycle cold for a few days. So where is this going? We're heading toward how to use regular birth control sort of like Plan B to throw off your internal clock by stopping the cycle for a few days. This is super useful if you know that you are going to have the time of the month during an important event. You can actually change when it will happen- months in advance, and reset your cycle to a new time of the month. I'm actually doing it now because I am planning a beach vacation for late July, so I want to have my TOM in early July before I go. How does it work? The key is to find the golden timeframe when you can start the pill to throw off the clock. This needs to be a few days before ovulation. For most women, ovulation occurs about 14 days after your TOM ends. So start the pill before that. For some people, continuously taking the pill will totally erase their periods. However, many can only shift it a few days and make it lighter when it does occur. To try this, simply skip the "placebo" pills that are in the last week of a cycle and start a new round instead. If you just need to change the time of your period for an event or convenience, you can stop taking the pill about 2 days before you want your period to start. It's that easy!

Skinny Sculpted Backs and Shoulders

Thinspiration TV Shows

It's been a little while since the thinspo books post, so I figured no one would mind another "list" style post. Whenever I am trying to lose weight, the bored-at-home time is the worst. When there is nothing to do, I tend to lose focus on my goals and start snacking. That's why Thinspiration Books are so great- I can go outside, put on my sunglasses, and spend all day motivating instead of being tempted. But a lot of people prefer something visual for Thinspo, or maybe just don't enjoy reading. (blasphemy)

Thinspiring TV Shows: Sorry if some of these are obvious and overdone. I assume readers are starting from zero knowledge or experience.

- America's Next Top Model  - Project Runway  - Gossip Girl  - Supersize vs Super Skinny - Skins  - True Blood  - Vampire Diaries  - Once Upon a Time  - The OC  - Sex and the City  - Desperate Housewives  - I Want to be a Supermodel

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(Note: wherever there are multiple "nationalities" of a show, try to watch the original. E.g. try and get the british version of Skins)

 I chose all of these because they are shows that highlight skinny girls, or don't have any normal-sized humans, or else just shove "average" characters to the side. I can't think of a single woman on Gossip Girl who is over size 0 except the maid, and occasional "unpopular" girls who have a cameo getting things thrown at them or being taken advantage of. ANTM is obvious, as is PR. Supersize SuperSkinny is amazing and when you see it, it'll be obvious why it's on this list. Skins has a character suffering from ED, which many girls identify with, but they glorify the illness, or at least "tone it down" for television, making her seem attractive and exotic. Frankly it was reckless of whoever decided to portray anorexia as a sort of romantic drugged-out daydream. But it deserves to be on this list. The rest are simply sitcoms, vampire dramas, etc which operate on the "sex sells" mentality - using and abusing any overweight characters just like Gossip Girl. If you want a regular show that just happens to have tons of skinny bitches, I recommend those. If you're looking to really wallow in skinniness, I recommend the thinspiration reality TV.

Artistic Pictures of Skinny Girls

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Sitting, Waiting, Wishing. (liposuction medical tourism)

Loving somebody don't make them love you.

But being pretty can convince them they do.

I decided to take this weekend off to just lay around in the sun, work in my garden, and be happy being alone.

Of course I had to do something productive with the time, so I was looking into medical tourism. I actually feel kind of like an asshole, because most of the stuff that comes up is like, for cancer patients who can't afford treatment in the USA. Jesus what is wrong with us that this service needs to exist?

But of course I was looking at something much more shallow, because that's who I am. Cosmetic procedures.

Full tummy tuck and lipo across the lower body = 5k (hospital stay included) Sun spots/freckles/moles= about $100 each (less if you do more at once)

I'm so weird about sunspots and moles. I have no intention of staying out of the sun. I'd rather get surgery, start fresh, and just do it all over again in 10 years. However, now that I'm an "adult" with a 9-5 I don't think I'll have the same sun exposure I used to. So regardless of my intentions, the results will probably stick for awhile.

The funniest part though, is that I won't remove what's probably my worst/most noticeable freckle/mole/whatever. (Where do you even draw the line between mole and freckle? It's a little bit raised but...) Anyway. It's right on my nose! And for some reason, I feel attached to it. The doctor is going to think I'm insane, and he's probably right. But I've had my nose freckle since before I can remember. My parents used to tease me about it (kindly) and it's just always been....me. It's the one bit (other than bone structure etc) that I really feel defines me as a person.

This whole struggle is about whether I define my body or my body defines me, but I don't battle certain things. I look how I look to a certain extent. I guess you could say that ALL my spots define me, but the others arrived later, after I was already a person. They're just ugly marks that I cursed from the day they showed up. My nose is ME.

The other thing I was looking into this weekend was seasonal rentals in these same countries. For med tourism and this, I'm talking about Thailand probably. Thailand or Vietnam.

Anyway, seasonal rentals are also cheap cheap cheap. Hilariously, the problem that I have with most of them is that there is "staff" to help you out. I want to be totally alone. I know a staff person would probably not bug me, and only come if I phoned them, but I hate feeling like I'm in someone else's place, even when I am. I want to feel alone, peaceful, not dependent on anyone. Not like I'm inconveniencing the real owner by being there.

But anyway. What I was thinking of was a sort of DIY fat camp, if you can believe it. This of course all rests on the idea that I'll line up a job with Americorps before I get home. If I don't have a job and place to stay, all this goes down the toilet and I'll be pinching every inflated yen (fucking currency rates) to stay afloat. Well, I could move back in with my folks, but I might actually kill them if that happened.

If I DO line up this sweet sweet job (sarcasm, the core pays 12k/year- I'd be doing it for the love of humanity) I can make it rain yen on whatever I want to do. And frankly what I want to do is lose weight, be pretty, and lay on a beach.

I don't mean to toot my own horn, but I don't need a tummy tuck. Depending on how much weight I can lose by then, I either want lipo all over, or possibly just a meso treatment. There's no scars with meso - it just kills the cells and your body digests them basically. If I could make it to that point, that would be ideal, but you can't "lose weight" with meso like you can with lipo. (I know you aren't supposed to use it like that, but 6-8lbs is significant) So we'll see.

Right now I'm assuming that, according to current trends, I'll continue being an undisciplined lard butt, and need lipo everywhere and the whole package. About 6k in surgery and hospital stays.

~~~~PLAN~~~

1. touch down in SE Asia somewhere ($400 plane tix)

2. shamelessly try to get Vyvanse or similar (prescriptions aren't as big a deal there)(~$50)

3. retreat to my little paradise on the ocean and binge on sunshine and addy meds for a few weeks ($1000)

4. when I'm relaxed, skinny, and tan, go in for cosmetics ($5000)

Cosmetics cost based on no tummy tuck, but full lipo plus sunspot removal.

I need about 7,000 for this plan to work, which is totally doable in the time that's left.

Thinking about money makes me super motivated to work.  And thinking about spending it on weight loss makes me super motivated to diet instead. 

It's gonna be a productive week.

Jennifer Lawrence Thinspiration

The lovely Jennifer Lawrence has been gathering a cult following with her cute interview style and down-to-earth words. I absolutely loved her in The Hunger Games, and the real girl behind the acting seems to be totally enchanting as well. Who doesn't love a girl like this?

Scenespo

Enjoy some scenespo on me!

Fitspo again.

I just want to be Adderall Skinny

This post is dedicated to the sickness growing inside your mind every time you look at the scale. And to drugs and the people who use them without a prescription or a care in the world as to what is happening to them.

 When you look into the void, the void looks into you

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