Thank goodness for Mexico!

This week has been plagued with an excess of drinking and eating and no working out. My first workout for this week will be tonight as my fitness eval fell through and going out for work evening activities made me too drunk/tired/hungover to even think about physical fitness! I'm excited to be leaving for Mexico on Friday night as it will be a break from all this "get fit now!" pressure I've put on myself. Hopefully, I'll get some running time in on the trip as well. Adios, chicas!

LIfe is Good

Well, I feel as though I'm still on track physically. I've been going to the gym 6 days a week... except 2 weeks ago when I was sick sick sick. My clothes fit better. Parts of my body feel more different than they ever had. The only thing that's not changing very much is the scale... but that's fine as long as I can see the results. "Chubby Bunny" and I worked out yesterday. I also did an hour of weights before that. I'm glad that today is my day off. I think I'll celebrate with a rita. Time for my kiddies to arrive ttyl. Keep up the hard work ladies =)

Gym Bunny!

I joined Cowbells gym! I'm very excited though a little worried about what the fitness evaluation will find..... Some rocks are better left unturned! The nice thing is I don't have to keep mooching off of Cowbell to go to her awesome gym. And the location I'm at is exactly the same as hers, but flipped, so I've accidentally gone the wrong way a couple times! Oops... but everyone there seems really nice and hopefully this is fuzzy gym feeling I have lasts!

This weekend=fatslposion

Yea, Flexplus! That sounds awesome! I went to an "open house" at a gym nearby my office on Saturday, and made it in time for the last free class, which was Zumba. Though the instructor didn't really explain what the class was or what we would be doing at the beginning, all of us in the class caught on fairly quickly after she turned on the music and started going. Zumba seems like a mix of middle eastern dancing to extremely fast Italian/Spanish House music. It was confusing, fast, and was a surprisingly effective and fun class. Random parts of my body were sore, like parts of my pelvis from rotating my hips (hoola hoop or bellydancing style) while in a squat position. However, that exercise was most definitely canceled out on Sunday, where I ate crap all day long AND my mother let me know that she weighs 4 lbs less than me! :( So, I did my measurements today (I've lost 1 lb) and have posted pictures I cut out from Victoria's Secret catalogues all over my fridge, pantry and microwave so I think twice before making bad decisions. Watch out, mom- I'm gonna be below your weight before you know it!

FlexPlus Bitches

So i went to the gym yesterday for the second time in about a year. Go me. I ran for about 20 minutes and then decided to try this FlexPlus class. Only once I began did I realize what I was in for. it's 75-100 reps with low weight on every major muscle group. I thought I was going to straight up die. It was great though and I definitely want to work it into my schedule at least twice a week. I did things I haven't done since I took that weight lifting class at UT. And it's really intimidating to go to the weight area at my gym. All guys with huge necks and staring problems. It was nice to have someone push me to do at least ten to fifteen more reps that I ever would have done alone. All around A+ class. Full of women... not a dude in sight. And it was all done quickly so I kept my heart rate up for the whole hour, unlike when I do weights on my own. That involves a whole lot of rest action.

Anyway, I'm at work now but am off to the gym in just a bit. I'm all pumped up after yesterday and really want to stay on track. I've not been good with the sugar situation.... I haven't eaten candy but I know I've had a few salad dressings that had the stuff and catsup once or twice. But I have been really good about the flour. The other night I was craving a hamburger and I took off the bun. I was really proud of myself because I've had a really hard time doing any sort of diet around B. I'm terrified of being that chick. But I just need to get over it. Because I'm pretty sure he'd rather have a hot girlfriend that takes the bun off than a big fat ass that just shoves it right on down.

Step Class

I have my new step class today, and I'm nervous as a kid at their first day at a new school! The room they have it in has two glass walls that the treadmills/ellipticals/bikes face so the people working out on them just watch the class people their whole workout. My plan is to get in the front opposite corner of the wall of watchers so I'm not trying to look cool (or focus on not looking like a injured duck) the whole class.

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This new gym also has standing tanning available, ala carte! I'm very excited about that because if I need it, I can get a tanning fix without having to go to a tanning place. Once I go to a tanning place, I always forget the bad stuff and only remember how much I love being tan, which is not helpful in my quest to avoid cancer...

So, I noticed that we were using our own and each other's names in our posts, so I editted the posts to use our user names. If you guys could do the same, we can continue to share without having to worry about people we don't want to stumbling onto our blog and knowing more stuff than we're comfortable with them knowing about us.

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CowBell, I'll let you know how the class goes because if I hate it, then I'll come with you and K to the class we went to last week. Though I like my new gym, it doesn't even come close to the awesomeness that is your gym. If I had one near my office or house, I would join in a second- even though it's $20 more a month than my new gym will be!

VDay- chubbybunny's version

I agree completely with cowbell! Our step interval was the most movement my body had done in who knows how long and the steam was everything I dreamt of and more! The rest of valentine's day was pretty typical, J and I ate our chocolate bag while watching "The Usual Suspects" ***which was AWESOME*** and then went to bed. This weekend J and I finished our dance class which made me kinda sad, because I really liked some of our classmates. We didn't even schedule a dance night for the class! Oh well...
I'm still sore from that step class though, even though it has been 5 days! What a wimp! I'm headed to 24hr Fitness tonight by my office to get a week pass and take a tour. It has a steam room, way more classes than the campus location and the website said something about tanning. What?! If I can workout, steam and tan all in one place, I'm sold!
Don't worry though, the tanning is just so I don't look like an albino fatty at Char's wedding. I'm not about to become tanorexic like some people in my past have. :)