Yardies at home and farrin (part 10)

[TRELAWNY PARISH 10]

thanks 1luv a me n mi big head/big body self dat

[PortlandAngel 0]

thanks 1luv a me n mi big head/big body self dat

but yuh shape good! coco cola bokkle!

[wakeywakeup 1]

Yardies this is ur laugh for today First I put myself on GYM PUNISHMENT due to the 4 huge pounds I gained during the Holiday( didn't work out and had a love affair with a Sweet Potatoe Pie) so I have to go to the Gym everyday before my trip in January. I got to the gym and low and behold I had left my workout clothes at home. I restarted my car stating "The devil is a lie I will not break my punishment" . I went to TJMAX and found a pair of Gym shorts($5) and a shirt ($5) pants large shirt XTRA Large. Went to change in the gym put the pants on said damn they fit not loosely( the belly roll showed). Put on the shirt to cover the belly and looked like I had been in KIMMY'S , SUS or PORTLAND'S closet. I looked like the Michelen MAN in BLACK. Every roll that I thought I had showed . Being the Diva that I am I proceeded out of the dressingroom into the Gym untill I past a mirror. . I took my fat Azz bact to the locker and put on my uniform top that did not match in any shape or form to the pants and worked out. I had a kids Xtra large top . Lessoned learned try my clothes on.

Lawd Morant that is dedication and I know it wasn't as bad as you thought. You better work girl!!

Check this out

Trainer, 71, is inspiration to clients

By Ericka Blount Danois | Special to The Sun

February 3, 2008

On this rainy day, only the resolute are in Energy Fitness Center on Liberty Road in Randallstown , getting in their evening workout.

In the corner of the gym, Ernestine Shepherd is quietly training a petite client, Cynthia Evans , who weighs 110 pounds and is 4 foot 11 inches tall. They are working on their rear delts, lifting 5-pound weights and stretching their arms into a 'T' before they move on to the 30-poundweights.

It would all seem pretty dreary -- the rain, the routine of weightlifting -- if it weren't for the fact that Shepherd, at age 71, is so dazzling to watch. Wearing red sweat pants, a red-and-white sports bra and a baseball cap that reads, 'Determined, dedicated, disciplined to be fit,' she is a unique figure in the world of fitness.

Shepherd's attitude lends credence to the adage 'age ain't nothing but a number.' Five days a week, she trains women of all ages -- three days at Energy gym and two days at her church, Union Memorial United Methodist Church , 2500 Harlem Ave. , where she has a class of 25.

Related links

Ernestine Shepherd Photos

· ERNESTINE SHEPHERD

Age: 71

Profession: Certified personal trainer and retired school secretary at City Springs School in South Baltimore .

Training grub: She drinks 16 ounces of water and eats a light snack that includes a bagel with peanut butter or two hard-boiled eggs before starting her workout.

On the run: SusanG. Komen Breast Cancer, Turkey Trot, Women's Classic in Baltimore, Resolution Run at Patterson Park, Race for the Kids, the Dreaded Druid Hills at Druid Hill Park, Baltimore Marathon.

Other acclaim: Has appeared in Essence (1991 and 2003); The Baltimore Times (2002); and the book Self Seduction, Ultimate Path to Inner and Outer Beauty (2003); has appeared on The View (2001); in a Carmax commercial (2004); and in the Miss Am eric a Senior Pageant (2004). She models for Nova Models in Baltimore .

Status: Married to Collin Shepherd , 77, for 52 years. They have a son and a grandson.

What her husband says: 'She is a very determined person and she is not only in this for herself, she is interested in helping other people, including myself,' he says. 'We exercise at home. She is an inspiration tome; sometimes I get lazy, but she gets on me. I learned you are never too old to exercise.'

'I usually start off with about 15 minutes of cardio, running in place, then we do floor exercises working on the abs, legs, upper and lower obliques, and then we proceed with the weights,' she says about her training sessions that last about an hour. Wendy Barry , 38, started training with Shepherd six months ago. After her weight went up to 241 pounds, she started working with a nutritionist and lost 50 pounds.

When she started working with Shepherd, she lost another 20 pounds and traded her size 22 dress for a size 8. Some days she walks 10 miles with Shepherd before she goes to work at the Department of Social Services in Baltimore .

With 10 percent body fat, Shepherd is 5-foot-5 and about 130 pounds of inspiration to her clients, many of whom she includes in her routine of walking or running, which begins at 4 a.m. At Druid Hill Park .

Sharron Woods , 60, and her mother, 85-year-old Eva Miller , attend Shepherd's Saturday class at the church. Both are former body builders who have successfully competed in weightlifting competitions.

When Miller was 70, at 5 feet 3 inches tall and 150 pounds, she could bench press 175 pounds. So she and her daughter were skeptical when they began Shepherd's first class and were instructed to run in place.

'I looked at my mother and said, 'This is not going to get it; we are used to vigorous exercise,' ' Woods says. 'Well, then she pulled out some exercises I had never seen. Before we left, I was begging for more.'

Some of the exercises, Woods recalls, included trunk twists while holding a pole-- right, and then left, before going down and doing squats still holding the pole.

Still, Woods wasn't convinced. When Shepherd asked her to run with her in the morning, her first thought was, 'She's 70, I can keep up with her.' 'That woman was a road runner!' remembers Woods . 'I am really energized working out with her.'

Her mother was equally humbled: 'She didn't go easy on me because of my age,' says Miller, who works part time as a teacher's aide in the Baltimore school system. 'She works me just like she works everybody else.'

In dee d, she even works hard enough that her former trainer, Raymond Day , can't keep up with her.

Though he runs with her some mornings, he is reluctant to take her up on offers to participate in the marathons she runs in. In addition to her regular workout routine and training others, Shepherd has participated in numerous 5K and 10K races and marathons.

But Shepherd hasn't always had a focus on fitness in her life. In fact, in her younger days she was a 'prissy' girl, with little athletic interests.

It wasn't until she turned 56 that she began to exercise with the aid of her sister.

They were both spurred on to join a gym after shopping for bathing suits and not liking what they saw in the mirror..

Day trained them both at a gym on U.S. 40 and remembers that Shepherd was in good shape, but had a lot of body fat and didn't know how to lift weights. Her sister, a year older, acclimated her body quickly to the routines.

Then one day in 1992, her sister came into the gym complaining of a ringing in her ears. 'A few days later, she passed away,' remembers Day . 'She had a brain aneurysm that burst in her head. They were really close, they did everything together.' 'When she died, I said I didn't want to do anything,' says Shepherd, a retired Baltimore schools secretary. 'A friend of mine said, 'You know your sister wouldn't want you to do that.' '

Day says that when she decided to come back to the gym, she came back with a new vigor and dedication. Before long, people would compliment her on how she looked. 'She was the most dedicated person I have ever trained,' says Day, who worked with her for 15 years.

Nowadays, she works with nutritionist Todd Swinney . She keeps busy by modeling in magazines and commercials and recently participated in the Senior Miss Am eric a pageant in Baltimore .

But mostly she inspires others.

'She is a people person,' says Woods . 'She is constantly asking, 'How do you feel about this? Are you feeling OK?' Most people just follow a routine and they don't pay attention to how you feel. With Ernestine , every day is different.

'So that means, it not only keeps you thinking, it keeps your body thinking and challenges your body,' she says. Miller agrees..

'She is amazing,' she says. 'I don't think I'll ever look like that, but I am working on it!'

[solsoeur 0]

Thinking back on my day..

Today I had to go to the mall with a friend to pick up some ordered gifts. We walked by Victoria Secret and I made the joke about how the only thing there that fits me is the lotions. I said I bet they would make a killing if they allowed their panties and bras for the bigger woman.

My friend is a size 8 and I'm a 16. She looked at me and said, "don't take this the wrong way but VS markets to the smaller women because they are elite. They are what everyone woman wants to look like and they aren't ever going to make them for bigger women."

I stared in shock and then asked her so you're saying big women shouldn't be sexy. She said no I see I upset you but I'm saying they can be sexy but that's why they have to go to a shop for them or the internet. VS is to show the beauty and sexyness in smaller women. She said I'm sure they would make a killing if they did sale to bigger women but then they would no longer be elite to the smaller woman.

The said part about it all is after mauling it over tonight I think she may be right..why else have they never made a panty for double digit women...

Thoughts??? I'm headed to bed and hope to read your thoughts when I get to work tomorrow.

Wakey

Night Night

There are other far more "elite" lingerie boutiques than VS. Your friend is...I will reserve judgement. I'm not sure why Victoria Secret opted not to market to plus size women (anyone larger than a 14), but I'm sure it was not to be considered elite. At one point, they didn't market to Black women either. Maybe, they will one day realize that the average US woman is a size 14, and decide to change their range of sizes.

I can't afford anything from them but their lotions anyway. Ha-ha...I just don't have $50 to spend on a bra when my boys want $150 tennis shoes.

I remember when I was a size 10, and I purchased a Valentine's Day teddy in a size 12 from VS. Well, tell that to the piece of lingerie. I had booty cheeks and other unmentionables hanging out for days. Remember I had to give it to Mama, who was all of a size 6 soaking wet? She loved it! I have since boycotted them.

who among us does not have a story like this?

[dancehallquana 5]

Good morning everyone...

many blessings to u and ur SO, Portland.. I pray everything goes in u guys favor..

Wakey, i don't think VS's choice to target smaller sizes makes them ELITE at all, that just the demographic they chose for whatever reason, maybe they don't feel enough of "us" are comfortable enough in our skin to wear there type of lingerie for them to invest in a line.. who knows. I agree w/ Jawi, maybe some great mind will come in and help them make a change.. hey after the election who knows???

Some of the small clothing chains in my area though have come out w/ some fabulous styles at affordable prices.. not sure if any of ya'll have "Simply Fashions", "Dots" or "Rainbow"... I found some REALLY cute stuff in Walmart and Ross.. As i 've gotten older, I have grown to LOVE di sexy undies. some really provide "coverage" for the bottom too, but are still HOT!!! LOL

as far as airport, or anywhere else.. mi always a dress up.. its just in me.. I don't wear flat shoes unless I am going dancing...thanks a good idea tho to put the heels in my carry on.. I get all kind of looks when I am taking all day taking off my shoes at the check in line LOL

BE BLESSED EVERYBODY

[solsoeur 0]

Lawny you have very nice cheek structure that is the first thing I noticed a make up artist would love your facial features.

Let me see if this work

[^KK^ 3]

thanks 1luv a me n mi big head/big body self dat

but yuh shape good! coco cola bokkle!

[TRELAWNY PARISH 10]

I'm hungri

Solo tanks...I don't have a clue about makeup, don't know how to apply it so I don't bother with it.

[1luv 1]

thanks 1luv a me n mi big head/big body self dat

I must be blind cuz I do not see where u head/body is big

[wakeywakeup 1]

Let me see if this work

Eh? Yuh small hup yuhself mi gyal? Look nice...love de smile. You look like the cat that ate the canary...like you were getting ready to get in a whhhhooolllleee lot of trouble. How recent is the picture?

You better work Lawny..you look beautiful. I wish my backside filled out a dress like that mi gal

[solsoeur 0]

Get it Lawny!!!! Nice picture.

Last night, my friend post some pictures of me from our Miami trip in 2006 on facebook. I looked a hot mess. I told to take them DOWN...!!!

LOL...don't you hate that? I hate taking pictures...so they have to sneak attack me most times.

Why do you hate taking pictures so far from the pictures I have seen you look very photogenic. (is that spelled right?) You know what i'm saying.

[dancehallquana 5]

awww man.. mi cyaan see di pitcha dem!!! CHO.. dis computa vex mi nuff nuh sho di hot gyal TRELAWNY!!

affi wait fi reach di yaad...

CONGRATULATIONS.. jgay.. I missed ur approval my dear..

"its been a long time coming!!!"

I heard Seal on the Steve Harvey show singing that.. he sounded JUST like the real guy.. to me anyway.. I really like Seal

Edited December 5, 2008 by dancehallquana

[Forever Young 1]

Mawning Family,

How is everyone doing today? Just dropping in to say "Welcome" to our New Members and "Howdy" to deh hole veteran dem! I woke up this morning thinking of my VJ Yardie family and how much I sincerely appreciate and love you guys!! This is a GREAT thread...between the support on the different different filings and emotional support during the waiting, arrival, adjustment ...periods. It is just a beautiful thing!

So I say all this to say..."

You all mean so much to me...whether it's a laugh, a shoulder to cry on, or a frustration to share...my VJ Yardie Family is always here!! Each and every one of you are special, unique, beautiful with so much to give!! NEVER FORGET THAT!!

Even though I'm not here every day to tell you just know that you are NEVER far from my mind, heart & prayers!

Love you guys!! & have a bless-ed day!!

Gill

[sus 70]

uuhhh...they look worse than sneakers...maybe poolside lounging...nah...I couldn't see myself in them.

LOL - They look very cute on - I have the pink and white ones and a little pink and white dress - plus they are so so comfy - I pm'd the picture - I don't care that I look the fool, but I don't want to leave it up since someone else is in it - No way to crop him out -

[solsoeur 0]

Yardies this is ur laugh for today First I put myself on GYM PUNISHMENT due to the 4 huge pounds I gained during the Holiday( didn't work out and had a love affair with a Sweet Potatoe Pie) so I have to go to the Gym everyday before my trip in January. I got to the gym and low and behold I had left my workout clothes at home. I restarted my car stating "The devil is a lie I will not break my punishment" . I went to TJMAX and found a pair of Gym shorts($5) and a shirt ($5) pants large shirt XTRA Large. Went to change in the gym put the pants on said damn they fit not loosely( the belly roll showed). Put on the shirt to cover the belly and looked like I had been in KIMMY'S , SUS or PORTLAND'S closet. I looked like the Michelen MAN in BLACK. Every roll that I thought I had showed . Being the Diva that I am I proceeded out of the dressingroom into the Gym untill I past a mirror. . I took my fat Azz bact to the locker and put on my uniform top that did not match in any shape or form to the pants and worked out. I had a kids Xtra large top . Lessoned learned try my clothes on.

Lawd Morant that is dedication and I know it wasn't as bad as you thought. You better work girl!!

Check this out

Trainer, 71, is inspiration to clients

By Ericka Blount Danois | Special to The Sun

February 3, 2008

On this rainy day, only the resolute are in Energy Fitness Center on Liberty Road in Randallstown , getting in their evening workout.

In the corner of the gym, Ernestine Shepherd is quietly training a petite client, Cynthia Evans , who weighs 110 pounds and is 4 foot 11 inches tall. They are working on their rear delts, lifting 5-pound weights and stretching their arms into a 'T' before they move on to the 30-poundweights.

It would all seem pretty dreary -- the rain, the routine of weightlifting -- if it weren't for the fact that Shepherd, at age 71, is so dazzling to watch. Wearing red sweat pants, a red-and-white sports bra and a baseball cap that reads, 'Determined, dedicated, disciplined to be fit,' she is a unique figure in the world of fitness.

Shepherd's attitude lends credence to the adage 'age ain't nothing but a number.' Five days a week, she trains women of all ages -- three days at Energy gym and two days at her church, Union Memorial United Methodist Church , 2500 Harlem Ave. , where she has a class of 25.

Related links

Ernestine Shepherd Photos

· ERNESTINE SHEPHERD

Age: 71

Profession: Certified personal trainer and retired school secretary at City Springs School in South Baltimore .

Training grub: She drinks 16 ounces of water and eats a light snack that includes a bagel with peanut butter or two hard-boiled eggs before starting her workout.

On the run: SusanG. Komen Breast Cancer, Turkey Trot, Women's Classic in Baltimore, Resolution Run at Patterson Park, Race for the Kids, the Dreaded Druid Hills at Druid Hill Park, Baltimore Marathon.

Other acclaim: Has appeared in Essence (1991 and 2003); The Baltimore Times (2002); and the book Self Seduction, Ultimate Path to Inner and Outer Beauty (2003); has appeared on The View (2001); in a Carmax commercial (2004); and in the Miss Am eric a Senior Pageant (2004). She models for Nova Models in Baltimore .

Status: Married to Collin Shepherd , 77, for 52 years. They have a son and a grandson.

What her husband says: 'She is a very determined person and she is not only in this for herself, she is interested in helping other people, including myself,' he says. 'We exercise at home. She is an inspiration tome; sometimes I get lazy, but she gets on me. I learned you are never too old to exercise.'

'I usually start off with about 15 minutes of cardio, running in place, then we do floor exercises working on the abs, legs, upper and lower obliques, and then we proceed with the weights,' she says about her training sessions that last about an hour. Wendy Barry , 38, started training with Shepherd six months ago. After her weight went up to 241 pounds, she started working with a nutritionist and lost 50 pounds.

When she started working with Shepherd, she lost another 20 pounds and traded her size 22 dress for a size 8. Some days she walks 10 miles with Shepherd before she goes to work at the Department of Social Services in Baltimore .

With 10 percent body fat, Shepherd is 5-foot-5 and about 130 pounds of inspiration to her clients, many of whom she includes in her routine of walking or running, which begins at 4 a.m. At Druid Hill Park .

Sharron Woods , 60, and her mother, 85-year-old Eva Miller , attend Shepherd's Saturday class at the church. Both are former body builders who have successfully competed in weightlifting competitions.

When Miller was 70, at 5 feet 3 inches tall and 150 pounds, she could bench press 175 pounds. So she and her daughter were skeptical when they began Shepherd's first class and were instructed to run in place.

'I looked at my mother and said, 'This is not going to get it; we are used to vigorous exercise,' ' Woods says. 'Well, then she pulled out some exercises I had never seen. Before we left, I was begging for more.'

Some of the exercises, Woods recalls, included trunk twists while holding a pole-- right, and then left, before going down and doing squats still holding the pole.

Still, Woods wasn't convinced. When Shepherd asked her to run with her in the morning, her first thought was, 'She's 70, I can keep up with her.' 'That woman was a road runner!' remembers Woods . 'I am really energized working out with her.'

Her mother was equally humbled: 'She didn't go easy on me because of my age,' says Miller, who works part time as a teacher's aide in the Baltimore school system. 'She works me just like she works everybody else.'

In dee d, she even works hard enough that her former trainer, Raymond Day , can't keep up with her.

Though he runs with her some mornings, he is reluctant to take her up on offers to participate in the marathons she runs in. In addition to her regular workout routine and training others, Shepherd has participated in numerous 5K and 10K races and marathons.

But Shepherd hasn't always had a focus on fitness in her life. In fact, in her younger days she was a 'prissy' girl, with little athletic interests.

It wasn't until she turned 56 that she began to exercise with the aid of her sister.

They were both spurred on to join a gym after shopping for bathing suits and not liking what they saw in the mirror..

Day trained them both at a gym on U.S. 40 and remembers that Shepherd was in good shape, but had a lot of body fat and didn't know how to lift weights. Her sister, a year older, acclimated her body quickly to the routines.

Then one day in 1992, her sister came into the gym complaining of a ringing in her ears. 'A few days later, she passed away,' remembers Day . 'She had a brain aneurysm that burst in her head. They were really close, they did everything together.' 'When she died, I said I didn't want to do anything,' says Shepherd, a retired Baltimore schools secretary. 'A friend of mine said, 'You know your sister wouldn't want you to do that.' '

Day says that when she decided to come back to the gym, she came back with a new vigor and dedication. Before long, people would compliment her on how she looked. 'She was the most dedicated person I have ever trained,' says Day, who worked with her for 15 years.

Nowadays, she works with nutritionist Todd Swinney . She keeps busy by modeling in magazines and commercials and recently participated in the Senior Miss Am eric a pageant in Baltimore .

But mostly she inspires others.

'She is a people person,' says Woods . 'She is constantly asking, 'How do you feel about this? Are you feeling OK?' Most people just follow a routine and they don't pay attention to how you feel. With Ernestine , every day is different.

'So that means, it not only keeps you thinking, it keeps your body thinking and challenges your body,' she says. Miller agrees..

'She is amazing,' she says. 'I don't think I'll ever look like that, but I am working on it!'

That was inspiring Wakey but now I feel like a bigger fatty! Look at that lady 71 looking like a brick house and look at me looking like Krispy Creme Restaurant! I am going to get motivated and turn my Krispy Creme into a brick house