Friday, December 9, 2011

Friday December 09, 2011

Hey everyone! I'm in an extremely chipper mood today. Waking up to the big, beautiful, fluffy snowflakes falling outside my window might have something to do with it. :)

I know today isn't my weigh in day (that would be tomorrow), but I weighed myself this morning out of curiosity. I was at 157! Down a pound! So, that might have something to do with the good mood as well. :)  On Wednesday, Clorissa and I went to a local Zumba class for the first time. I had a blast! When I first started this weight loss journey- I was hitting the gym HARD for an hour a day, 6 days a week. I seriously hated every second of exercising. I hated waking up early, I hated sweating, and I hated the idea of walking on a treadmill and staring at a tv with no sound for an hour. I waited and waited for the day when I might actually ENJOY exercising, but that day never came. Now here I am, almost a year to the day that I made a promise to myself to start dropping pounds, in literal love with exercising.

Some kinds of exercise is not for everyone. The treadmill, eliptical, stationary bike- that is definitely not for me. The dread of my daily work out would end up being greater than the satisfaction of actually losing the weight. As you know, I've recently been skipping the gym all together and practicing pilates and short intervals of cardio 5 days a week. &I am now tying that all together with Zumba. I am in love with them both. I find myself watching TV at night, even if I've already had my work out that day, and laying on the ground doing small leg circles. This is the feeling I've been waiting for and I'm so grateful that I've finally found it. Exercise can be fun for me now. For the rest of my life I will never have to dread another work out. I love that.

I've stumbled upon a website called foodgawker and now I'm a freak about cooking, too! Which I also never though I would enjoy. (My boyfriend has always done all the cooking; not anymore!) I've been doing little food experiments here and there by following and recreating different dishes I've seen on that website. I'm having a blast! Today for breakfast, I had an amazing egg salad sandwich.

It was delicious! I hard boiled 3 eggs, peeled them, and mashed them up. I stirred in a little mustard, a little mayonaise (Kraft Brand made with Olive Oil), some chopped up pickles, and a little pepper. Then, I threw one piece of ham into a frying pan, toasted my bun, added some Siracha sauce, and viola! Amazingness! What a good day it has been so far and it's only 1 p.m. :) As for the rest of the week, Clorissa and I will be following our work out schedule as normal and also doing Zumba again tomorrow at 9 a.m.! I'm also going to look into buying the new Zumba workout game for Wii and see if we can tie that into our everyday work out. Who would have thought this girl would be such a fan of Latin dancing? It just makes you feel so sexy. I love it! 

I can't wait to weigh in and post pictures for you guys tomorrow!

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