Week 2 – Day 2
Posted by Tammi | Filed under exercise, photos, week 2
Breakfast
1/3 cup of oatmeal with brown sugar Spenda and slivered almonds, two clementines and tea
Lunch
Layered Mexican Bake, tabbouleh, mushrooms, celery and guacamole (fuel for Zumba!)
Dinner
Chicken breast with drizzled Pesto Parmesan dressing, tabbouleh and celery.
I’m really glad I took yesterday off from working out. My body needed to recoup some energy. Unfortunately the Sleep Gods were not on my side last night and despite only going to bed at 1:00am, I was up at 4:00am when hubby got up to go to work. I was wired. I stayed up until the boy woke up and then when he went back down for his morning nap around 9:00am so did I and had a blissful two hour nap. Thankfully! (I may have also snuck in an hour nap during his afternoon nap but so did hubby so I guess you could call it a family nap).
My Dining Companion
Isn’t he cute? That’s “The Boy” and he’s turning SEVEN (gulp) months old on Sunday. He was watching me eat my lunch so I decided to see if he’d like the taste of guacamole as it is pretty soft…he LOVED it. That’s my boy!
Yes, so I fueled up on Mexican inspired foods to give me the energy boost I needed (along with my naps) because I kind of invited myself along to join Angie, FarmGirl and Lex (*waves*) at the weekly Zumba class being put on at Good Life Fitness which is an affiliate of Nubody’s Fitness (where I have my gym membership).
Now don’t take this lightly. I, me, moi…I not only agreed to going but VOLUNTEERED MYSELF to go to a fitness class…*I KNOW!* totally not like me, right? Well, that’s just how I’m rolling these days. Stepping out of the comfort zone, doing things I have never done before and taking advantage of all the tools I can to get this weight off. To be honest, I was pretty damn proud of myself for agreeing to go.
Well…to say I had my ass handed to me would put it mildly but I don’t mean that in a bad way. I was not the person who stopped a minute into it and decided it was not for me. I was not the person who had to keep taking breaks. I was not the person who complained the whole way through the FIFTY FIVE MINUTES of intense cardio. Instead, I was one of the happy participants actively moving my money maker to the Latin rhythms and very ungracefully doing the dance moves. I joked that if I had been a contestant on So You Think You Can Dance that Nigel surely would have said “I’m sorry to say this is the end of the road for you today.”
Until tonight I thought I had a pretty good sense of rhythm. I thought I could shake my booty pretty damn well for someone my size.
That was all before I saw myself dancing in front of a mirrored wall. Oh the HORROR!
I have a sense of rhythm all right. I clearly dance to the beat of a different drum :-P
All in all it was a fantastic way to spend 55 minutes because the instructor was great and I didn’t get the “I give you 3 minutes before you bolt out of here, Fat Girl” glare from her and although thanks to my pasty white complexion’s ability to turn fire engine red within 5 minutes of any activity whatsoever, I did not falter. Sure, I missed more steps than I care to admit and there were more than a few instances of bumping into poor Angie and FarmGirl but I held my own and left drenched in sweat. My hair felt like I had just jumped out of the shower so I know it was one hell of a work out and I burned a ton of calories. Angie’s HRM (heart rate monitor) told her she burned 450 calories so there’s the proof.
We’ve already made a date for next Tuesday night and this time Lynn is planning to join us too. Yay!
Tomorrow the weather is supposed to be sunny and about 10 degrees so my plans for activity are getting out for a walk at Shubie Park in the morning with the boy and then in the afternoon when he naps, I’ll fire up the wii Active and get a good butt kicking workout in!
November 18th, 2009 at 3:59 PM
Firstly, your little one is A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E! Just LOOK at him!!!! How do you handle it?!?! He’s not just one of those “mama thinks you’re cute” babies either! ;-)
Secondly, I could not have been MORE pleased that you agreed to come make a fool of yourself with us because girl, I aint got no rhythm either and any square hip box things she was doing was pure round and round style from me! lol
I think I was the one bumping into you.
Your SYTYCD joke inspired my post title. That was FUNNY!
Glad you enjoyed it and even happier that you are planning to make it regularly. You’re doing AWESOME.
And amen to stepping out of your comfort zone! You have no idea where that’s gonna take ya! ;-)
November 18th, 2009 at 4:55 PM
Hayley has been raving about Zumba for weeks. Trying to get me to try it. I Was thinking um, not ready yet …but…maybe I am? Will try to be there next Tuesday too.