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Accutane Update - Back to Month 1(!)

Had to take a pause on my accutane updates coz my derma held it up last month. Why?

I’ve been getting the dreaded migraines and the stress of my work was NOT helping.

But I’m now back. I’ve been on a buying spree to overhaul my skincare. Basically I trawled AB Reddit for the past month and formulated my own routine. I was horrified that I’ve been going about my cleansers all wrong. A lot of my orders are still in Korea and will arrive like end of the month *cries* so I went ahead and impulsively bought the CosRx Good Morning cleanser. It’s slightly acidic (as opposed to the extremely basic ones I’ve used) so it’s supposed to be good for my skin.

Aside from the prescribed anti-acne topicals, I slather on aloe vera gel. In the mornings I use the Biore sunscreen and it’s hands down freakin’ great. Western brands still suck at sunscreen i don’t know why.

So since I stopped for a month, I noticed the oil production went zero to a hundred real fast and the cystic acne came back. Horrors. After a week of taking the medication again, the acne have slowly receded and my pores are purging like crazy... like vomiting gunk out I’m serious. It’s been 3 weeks I think and the purge has not ended. This is a lot longer than what happened the first month I took accutane.

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What made me happy today: I made a homemade barbecue sauce for the rack of ribs dinner. 😄😄😄😄

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JANUARY CHALLENGE - DAY 12

Good morning, girls!

Before we get started, I just want to encourage anyone and everyone to join the JANUARY CHALLENGE, even if this is your first day! Everyone is welcome, and any day is a good day to start getting healthy and thinner!

Anyway, hopefully you enjoyed your sit-ups yesterday! There is an ab machine at my YMCA that has a basketball hoop at the end of a sit-up bench. I throw a 10 or 5 lbs medicine ball after a sit up on the bench and I tel you what… it kick my butt.

TODAY’S CHALLENGE IS:

EAT 500 CALORIES LESS & ½ GAL WATER (moderate) | EAT 700 CALORIES LESS  & 1 GAL WATER(advanced)

-A nutrition challenge again! Thank god!

- Today is about calorie restriction! Try eating 500 or 700 calories less than you usually would! We are slowly working our way towards a smaller diet!

- Depending on your typical diet, this may seem like too many or too little calories. Adjust the challenge to your needs!

Tips for Today’s Challenge:

Try to use a water bottle that measures the amount of water you drink. Or use one that you know how much water is inside.

Try low calorie snacks today, or try to incorporate vegetables as replacements for your usual foods! 

Try to avoid large meals or foods that are high in calories. Blowing all your calories in one sitting will make it nearly impossible to get through the day!

Here is how to measure out a GALLON OF WATER.

CALORIES:

This is the calculation to use to figure out how many calories you need a day: ( We are trying to work towards eating this amount, and only this amount, each and every day!)

CALC: (9.56 x weight in kg) + (1.85 x height in cm) - (4.68 x age in years) + 665

In order to LOSE 1 LB, you need to be in a calorie deficit of 3,500cal! That seems like a lot, but you can easily stretch out this deficit over the course of a few days or weeks!

LOW CAL SNACKS:

Rules & Tips | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7

Week Two: Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | Day 11 | Day 12

Good Luck, Pretty Girl! ♥

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What Miss USA whispered to Miss Philippines.

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My battle with acne #1

Today is my second evening with isotretinoin. After about 2 years of moderately wild adult acne (I had kinda clear skin with minimum cystic acne from time to time during my teenage years) I finally decided to go the drug route. From clear skin to painful, scarring acne = HELL. I just shelled out $1000 last summer with facials and the works but nothing happened. So there. So far, I haven't experienced any drying effects. Duh. I just had my second tablet. Anyways, I've started preparing for the brutal dryness and opted for DermaVeen lotion, Dove soap, and EOS lip balm. Dry skin = risk of aging so.... yep. Stressing about that now. Aside from that, the biggest threat is the one on my liver. Then my reproductive system. No nookie until this ends lol.

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life’s a beach

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on a  boat

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the pope is gone

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to see the pope

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Cure for 1st degree burns

So I was preparing my tea and then I accidentally pulled too hard on the cover thingy so I spilled boiling hot water on my self. What I did: 1. Rush to the faucet and put burned area under cold, running water 2. Got out some ice or better yet, an ice pack and apply to burned area. 3. Rushed to the garden and snapped off a bit of aloe vera, sliced it open and applied the gel to the burned area for as long as possible (but I only applied for about 30 mins coz I wanted to prepare for bed already). I still had an awful stinging pain on my hand after doing the above. Then when I woke up the next day, burning sensation was gone. Good as new. :3

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[kiskolee]

THIS.

[professorbutterscotch]

I have never thought about it in this context

that’s actually really, really creepy.

[purplespacecats]

I… fuck.

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Yeah, basically.

[avoiding-catatonic-surrender-de]

I once pointed this out to my mother and she just stared at me, in stunned silence for ages. 

[rosefire]

There will always be a girl who is less sober, less secure, with less friends walking in a darker part of town. I want her safe just as much as I want me safe.

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I’m sorry if the stuff below sounds like a rant. Someone made a comment that irked me a lot.

The reason why I bought a camera is that it makes me want to go out. I’ve been a hikikomori for the past few months and this thing… it made me go out of my room… then my house… I love the surprise. (And I never loved surprises. I feared surprises.) I appreciate tiny, seemingly insignificant moments. I try my best to capture everything. I try to play with seemingly boring things or scenes. I lost my fear to experiment. I press the shutter and hope my hands weren’t too shaky. I can’t press delete and redo everything after all.

In this era where everything is so fast, editable, and instant, I suddenly craved for patience.

I did not want to be a hipster, or cool. I’m not a pro. I still don’t know what I’m doing and that’s okay. I’m just playing around. Sure I do my best, and I do lurk at forums to learn some more, but I don’t aim to be a master. I’ve accepted that I don’t have the “eye” for it.

:D I post photos because there’s free space online (hehe) rather than keeping ‘em in my hard drive or CD. Not to brag or what. My photos are NOTHING compared to what others do. But they make me happy. I expected (still expect) them to turn out hella worse. hehe.

I’m also gonna start posting my misses, or the what-the-frack-happened-here-I’m-such-a-noob-lol moments. 

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The other side you don't want to see.