Not so Bad

Not so bad
I thought this weigh in would be hopeless..... but I just got back and I loss almost 1 lb.... not my best week but heck I didn't gain. Last week I screwed up taking my birth control on time so that may have thrown my body into havoc.....I will just party on and take each day as it comes, I have the tendency to be pretty crazy about dieting ..... as with my new approach to belly dancing I need to just be proud of myself for all I have accomplished and not get so upset when things don't happen on my time frame. I do want to challenge myself to continue to do more than just walking on the treadmill....Over the last 2 weeks I've gone to Latin Rhythm dance class, Aqua Aerobics, Belly Dancing, Lesile Sasone Walking Aerobics w/ hand weights and Weight Watchers Aerobic DVD. I need to break out one of my 50 Belly Dancing DVD's and give myself a crash course on the basic moves of Belly dancing....it is amazing how much your brain can dump when you are not using the skill.....hopefully it is like other muscle a little fine tune up and it will bounce back into my brain (Massive Stress doesn't help with memory either)!I recently ordered 2 bathing suits from Lands End (for Aqua Aerobics class) the first one arrived and there was virtually no bar in it.....no way was I going to go to LA fitness in a light tangerine colored suit with no bra..... the cool thing was that you can return the items at Sears, no need to ship it back to Lands End..... so when they offer free shipping it off sets the Taxes and if it doesn't work out just head for the nearest Sears.....so Cool... now that is being customer friendly! Di

Happy Tuesday, I hope

Wow..... I just wrote a long hard felt blog entry and poof it was gone......I'm not Happy. Up early trying to decide if I will get up early on a vacation day for my weekly weigh in at Weight watchers ...yesterday I weighed here at home and it wasn't good....up 3 lbs....how is that possible when I've been within my daily points and exercised everyday...granted not my banner week in the exercise dept. but really. I just weighed and I'm about what I was last weigh in may be with the help of some bodily functions between now and 9:30 maybe I will lose at least 1/2 lb. I just don't want there to be a weight gain.... I would be so disappointed. One area where I pushed myself last week was going back to Belly Dancing class at my old studio, I hadn't been in over 8 months ( I had kind of a MeLt DoWn......I was going overboard...pushing myself way too hard.....8 hours or more of classes a week, all the classes learning different dances....plus I had tested out within record time to another level and dealing with some really competitive dancers.....I began to lose confidence in my dancing abilities and it wasn't fun any more and then the Biggie was a huge lay off scare at work.....took every ounce of energy I had ...... trying to make sure I didn't have a huge screw up at work when they were in there decision making of the lucky few who would remain. Just too much Stress) I had recently also gotten rid of all the thousands of dollars worth of costumes, zills, shimmie scarfs, DVD's, Wigs and music but 2 friends asked me if I was still dancing (one blogger friend) and a friend from the studio asked me to come back.... I don't know something just clicked and the desire to dance began to work it way back into my heart (plus I missed the personal identification of being a dancer...silly I know but it was like the creative side of me was wasting away). Well, I took the plunge and called the owner of the studio to ask her #1 would she allow me to return #2 could I come back into the upper level class that I had tested out to be in...... to my surprise she said a big Yes and told me that she had missed me terribly.... Well, I went last Thursday night with the intention of doing it for the love of the dance and when to of the ladies in the class were making fun of others that weren't catching on as fast as they were..... I just thought how silly they were acting..... I may perform at the Huge event in mid August.... if I don't that is OK too. Diane

Slowly but surely

Weight Watchers weigh in yesterday....another 1.4 lb down.....not sure how many more to go probably at least 20 more to go.....

I have been so tired lately.... get the energy up to exercise..... I know that in most cases exercise gives you more energy but with what ever is wrong inside my body that isn't always the way it works for me (at a minimum I have too much iron in my blood and it makes you feel exhausted) anyway when I feel that way I'm forcing myself to exercise at least 30 minutes.... These days of 100 degrees isn't helping either....I go to the stables in the afternoon to care for my horse Gracie and the barn is stifling! Oh well step by step I will work this weight off..... it may take me until Christmas but it will be worth it...Last 2 days I've been within my daily points! d

Good Morning

Just a quick post before I head off to start my work week.......I have stayed with in my daily points (Weight Watchers) and not used and of the flex points......the area where I'm falling behind is activity points. Last weekend I spent about 2 1/2 hours on Sat. and Sun on the treadmill......this weekend no such luck.....I waltzed down to the apt fitness room and the treadmill was already in use...time to punt...plan B. Well the up side is that I have been wanting to do some cross training.... so I came home and pulled on one of the 15 exercise DVD (not one of the 50 Belly Dancing DVD's that I own ; ) The lucky winner was one of Leslie Sasone's walking
DVD...it is more like walking aerobics and can be done in a very small space (good thing since my apt has a tiny living room/dining room combo) plus I used hand weights and 2lb weighted balls. Last night I did the same DVD but I have to say I did not want to work out ..... I have been feeling run down (it must be the mystery illness rearing its ugly head from 2 years ago ; (
But I forced myself to work out even if it was only for 30 minutes. I have to keep in mind I'm doing this for the long term and results may be slow at times.....tomorrow is weigh in...if I lost anything it will most likely be well under a lb. Keep your fingers crossed! di

Budda Girl's Fabulosity Quest

Well....I decided it was appropriate to create a stand alone journal to document me quest to be Fabulous.....I turned 50 in April and did not feel the bit fabulous.....then there are all those commercials with Valerie Bertinelli in a itty bittybikini and she is about my age....well those 2 things got me to face my chubbiness and come to the conclusion I did not choose to be embarrassed to live my life, embarrassed to do the things I love to do, or dream to do or to glance into a mirror or seem myself in the reflection of a window and be disgusted. So on April 21st I made the plunge and stepped there the doors of Weight Watchers.....early that morning I checked out their website and they were having a special and I didn't have to pay a sign up fee.....I immediately signed up and hit the enter button .... I didn't want to chicken out! I went directly to a meeting at lunch time..... I had tried WW back in the 80's and was dreading the weigh in..... so much has changed..... you stand on a scale in front of a the reception desk and your weight reads on the computer on the desk so there is no clicking of weights being moved because your weight is over the 150 mark (like the scales at a doctors office) it is very discreet and you note your weight in your little booklet and hand it to you..... so it isn't as scary.... 7 weeks in I have lost a little over 15 lbs.... the critical mass is gone....thank goodness..... now I'm just plugging away. The amount I'm losing seems to be reducing (at least last week loss dis) so I'm trying not to get discouraged! I was weighing every morning and getting really depress if the scale read higher than the previous day. Now I'm doing a weight check on Sat. and then my official weigh in on Tuesday am. This morning I weighed and I've just lost .3 lbs since Tuesdays WW weigh in....I'm really going to have to work out today and tomorrow so I can aim for at least a loss of 1 lb....I'm trying to reach my 1st official goal of 16 lbs..... more later. Di aka ....Budda Girl.......aka.......Lucky Begonia