Hey! Where's My Feet?

I had the opportunity to try something tonight that I’ve been wanting to do for months now – Zumba!  It was a tossup between that and Jazzercise, which I’m thinking are fairly closely related. ZUMBA is a trade name for a dance fitness program created by dancer and choreographer Perez in Colombia during the 1990s. The program combines Latin and international music with dance in an effort to make exercise fun. (Thanks Wikipedia)  So how did I like it?  Well…. Let’s clear the air right now, it was fun & I liked it… that’s it, plain and simple.  You won’t ever hear or see me get excited about anything that makes me move for 50 minutes straight, sweat like a pig and smell like one too!  Whether it is Zumba, Jazzercise, moving furniture etc… it’s just not going to make me jump up and down and say WooHoo!  But it’s necessary… if I want to get my old svelte pole dancing body back, I must exercise, and I must sweat in the process… It’s just one of those thing...

Next on the list is… exercise.   I know I know, I talk about getting out and walking and how I want to start an exercise program blah blah blah but this time I’m doing it!   Weight loss is  at a stand still and I need to jump start it again... this will help me burn more calories, tone up and help me get my groove back! It really shouldn’t be hard to do… if you think about it, I’m already spending a couple hours   a day exercising when you take into account, all the typing, walking to the kitchen to refill my icey water, yawning & stretching.   Adding an exercise program will probably add another hour or two a day… sigh… losing weight is quite the time consuming activity. Between the exercise, time spent preparing healthy foods and other daily necessities, my free time is shrinking… shrinking , shrinking ….

Needless to say, I fell off the wagon – again. Boo, bad Tami.   But if you’re in tune with me I think you can understand why & how it happened.   Trips to Urgent Care & the ER for Julia’s eye (scratched cornea)… then at the same time I had not one but TWO pink eyes, which resulted in a big time scratched cornea in lefty and some scarring in righty.   I won’t go into the gory details (cause you may be eating lunch) but after not being able to see properly for 1.5ish weeks I’m finally on the mend… 6 more weeks of night treatment for lefty.   My bionic eyesight may never be the same again but at least I can see again.   So you can imagine life’s been a tad stressful and haven’t paid much attention to what I’ve been eating…   let me rephrase that…   I’ve paid attention to it, I just haven’t cared about it. Losing weight is H-A-R-D and I need to learn some flipping discipline!!!   I need to stop buying crap food.   Hungry Howie’s I’m looki...

Willpower. I’ve decided I hate this phrase, at least in how it applies to dieting. It's thrown around a lot, usually by people who are not or never have been fat. “If only she had more willpower, she wouldn’t binge like that.” Usually it’s used to blame a fat person’s obesity on their own weakness... Basically, I think it's bullshit.

Phew... been a couple of weeks since I last posted anything and let me just say - ROLLER COASTER!!!!! So you know how I'm an emotional eater right? Well if that was going to be tested any time, it was during the past two weeks... The morning of the 9th I checked our bank account only to find that Roy's unemployment check was HALF what it should have been - that alone was enough to send me into an eating tailspin! Then later that day I was tooling along minding my own business when, WHAMO. Let's just say it wasn't a very good day.... and to make a long story short, between then & now the loaner car overheated, Julia scratched her cornea & got an ear infection, I have TWO pink eyes, my leg is infected from the accident AND we're still waiting on the other half of that check - good news on that one though, should be here tomorrow and if all goes well, my car will be done Friday!! So as you can see... it wouldn't be any big surprise to see that scale to...

Woot!  13 pounds down and 115 more to go! I’ve lost 13 pounds so far and I can’t tell.  When you’re so overweight, 13 pounds is such a small number – it’s easy to see now how I never noticed if I was gaining or losing weight, 13 pounds could sneak on or off and I’d never know! It was a rough week and the long holiday weekend made it even more hard!  Although I will say, being busy all weekend with activities & such has kept me occupied and not eating as much garbage!  Friday night was a liquid dinner mixed with some massive carpet cleaning – WooHoo!  Saturday, back to cleaning and off to my MIL’s for a delish whole grain spaghetti dinner with 7 layer salad… I would have been just fine with the salad, it was AWESOME!  Sunday… I’ll admit I was a piggy & finished off that salad – is it wrong to eat salad for breakfast?  Oh, I did have a bacon egg bagel from Tim Horton’s too… than half a wrap for lunch and finished the day off with grill pork c...

It’s no wonder there are so many fat asses in America – losing weight is HARD! The weekend was rough, but I made it… and I think I may still have an ounce of sanity left too! Between all the weekend activities, the kids being terrors and Roy being laid up feeling ill on top of the broken back I’m surprised we all came out alive – Sunday was sketchy at best. As you can see in the post below, week 1 results were fairly decent with a 10 pound loss, but it didn’t come easy! I’ve been working on an exercise plan and even that hasn’t been easy… I want to start going to Fit Zone or Jazzercise but with Roy out of commission it makes it hard with little ones. Although, I did see that Jazzercise had a sign for available childcare so maybe that would be feasible – I’ll have to give them a call. Otherwise it’ll be good old fashion walking – wait, walking really isn’t old fashion now is it, it’s pretty hip and current, everyone’s doing it! Then there’s the little things… They’ve always said it’s...