Props to Miss South Carolina - 110lbs later

Bree Boyce, 22, shed nearly half her body weight before being named Miss South Carolina

With her beaming smile and flawless figure, Bree Boyce looks every bit the pageant winner. But the path she took to get there was anything but ordinary.

Before being crowned Miss South Carolina July 2, the 22-year-old lost 110 pounds — nearly half her body weight — over three years.

"I'm not on any kind of crazy diet; I'm just living a healthy lifestyle, and that's what I try to promote," Boyce told TODAY.com.

“That’s really what I want to focus on,” she told NBC News in an report that aired on TODAY Tuesday. “It’s not about a number on the scale or the size [of] your pants; it’s about being a ‘size healthy’ and loving yourself and having that self-worth.”Boyce will take her platform national when she competes for Miss America in January. Until then, she'll be traveling around the country encouraging others to get healthy by eating well, exercising, and believing in themselves.

An overshadowed child Self-worth is something Boyce struggled with for most of her life. The youngest of four, she says she always felt overshadowed by her siblings — two brothers and a sister, Tiffany. That feeling intensified when Tiffany, six years her senior, started competing in beauty contests.

"I loved going to the pageants and seeing how beautiful she was and glamorous she looked, but I also felt like I was kind of being dragged everywhere," Boyce told TODAY.com. "It wasn't that my family wasn't loving and supportive, because they definitely were. But emotionally, I just always felt like I was in the background."

To cope with her emotions, she turned to junk food, often sneaking around so that her family wouldn't find out.

“When I got my license, it really got bad,” Boyce said. “I would run to the local fast food joint, get something and eat it in my car.” Or she would eat entire pizzas and then stuff the boxes in the outside trash can before anyone came home.

What she got was a wakeup call: "He grabbed my legs and thighs and told me that it was time to lose weight," she recalled.  He warned that her knees and joints couldn't support her weight, and that she would have more problems in the future if she didn't slim down.


Read more here:
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43676767/ns/today-style/t/she-lost-lbs-won-beauty-queen-crown?GT1=43001

Aloha Trimshapers!

While discussing all of the items we need to pack for our trip, I stated that when we get back that I needed to be really serious about losing some more weight. He then proceeded to say that he "has been hearing that for months and he will believe it when he sees it".

Ouch :(

But I guess the truth does hurt, in some way. I keep getting motivation for a few days then fall back into this lazy pattern and same old habits. So when we come back from our trip, I REALLY do have to prove him and myself that I have to keep with it. Man - Up time!

With that said... there are only a few more days until we leave. I am so f'ing excited. Excited to get away, but mainly just to have some quality time with my honey. What makes me even more excited is I found a few new bathing suits. I searched at sports stores, bathing suit stores, even high end bra stores... and nada. I was so pissed and really down on myself that I didn't want to blog last week. Then I remembered that JCPenny has good sales and large selections. I found 4 new suit items. 2 bottoms and 2 tops.

The tops I highly recommend for large busts or saggy tummies... They are call Trimshapers. Having a suit that holds it all in makes you feel great. Like wearing a camisole that is like a sports bra in one. Bisou Bisou also has large coverage for bottoms that are great too. Perfect for large butts and comfort. I usually defaulted and got bikini tops since I could get the bust support from them. But never felt great looking in them. Now, these trimshapers are AWESOME! So great I could even imagine walking around without a cover-up. No one would even know you had some saggies underneath!

So next time you hear from me I hope to be a bit tanner, get all of my poor eating out of my system... and onto a healthy mindset.


Aloha!

Goal for this week: Pack little, drink lots of water!

Weight for today: 200 lbs.