Kayley – I hope your car repairs weren’t too expensive. I need to take mine in for an oil change and some new belts, and I just know they are going to tell me I need new tires. It has been 50K miles, but that is money that I just hate having to shell out.
Amber – I have the Veena and Neena set Bellydance Fitness for Beginners. It is a four tape boxed set that I got awhile ago. I also got this other one which is a mixture or tribal bellydance and other stuff called the Woman Power Workout from a dance troupe called Fat Chance Belly Dance (
www.fcbd.com), which I really like. In fact I think I will do that one today. It is quite long (over an hour) so it is best done on the weekend.
Whenever I feel like I have too much going on in my life to do X or Y, I will just think of you and all you have to do – the kids, your job, your extra job, sharing a car, etc. and stop my complaining!
Garnet – You can’t see the change, but can you feel the change at all?
Julee – That is so cool that you found a dress! It is also good that you aren’t stressing too much over the points. Do you have any pictures of the dress? We want to see!
Zelma – that sounds fantastic that you have relaxed and found joy in your current situation. Who knows? Maybe without the stress the extra weight you are holding onto will come off on its own. Some people say that stress is one of the causes of weight gain.
Ammi – I am thinking my little binge was hormonal. I started taking this new BC pill called Seasonale that makes it so you only get your period once every 3 months, but it seems it doesn’t entirely stop that hormonal swing. (darn!) Even at my highest weight I have always had my period like clockwork.
The beer festival was actually a barleywine festival, which meant that all of the beer had alcohol content of 8% up to 18% (beer normally has something like 5%). It was very good and we were able to try a lot of stuff that I had never heard of, but boy was I glad we had taken the subway.
The thing that was difficult for me was that the walking around was still quite tough. There are lots of stairs in the NYC subway system and I did a lot of climbing and walking. As we were making our way back through a park I was complaining to my boyfriend about how I didn’t see that my time on the treadmill was really translating into real life. He reminded me that on a walk like we did, before I would have either needed a rest halfway or I would have been complaining about it much more than I was. He reminded me of the fact that I actually have come quite a ways and that I didn’t realize it because it was gradual. That was really sweet of him and I felt a lot better, however I am really looking forward to when it gets warm out again and I can start doing some walking outside.
Today I am relaxing at home, catching up on email and things, plus trying to import all of my CD’s into iTunes so that I have my entire music collection available on my iPod. I will also go and try and get a trim – my bangs are out of control, and I will head over to Target to pick up a few more tank tops to wear while working out at the gym. I was getting very self conscious because the T-shirts that I wear ride up a bit when I do over the head stretches, and I am just not ready to show the world (even the small little world of my gym) my midsection with all of its stretch marks. Wearing the tank top under the T-shirt was a little hotter, but it made me feel more comfortable.