Zumba

Okay, since I've been married, I feel like I've put on 10 pounds. I don't think I have, but since my jobs aren't very active and involve a lot of down time, I feel like a beached whale. So I have been starting to work out. Slowly. I started out by lifting my 5 pound weights while I was watching a movie, or doing sit-ups in the mornings. But this hasn't been cutting it for me. I love doing cardio, so I went out to Wal-Mart and bought a $9 hip-hop dancing DVD, hoping that'll help me loose a couple of pounds. One morning I woke up and put in the DVD. I had on my workout shoes, my messy hair up in a pony tail, and my workout clothes. And I gotta say...hip-hop is hard core!! I had no idea what I was in for. I worked my tail off trying to keep up with the lady, but she's much too fast for me. So I did what I could and called it good. I watched the DVD every other day until I got bored of it.

Then I started to feel chubby again :( The school offers free Zumba in one of the buildings on campus, and Mike suggested that I go to Zumba while he goes for a swim of lifts weights or something. So last night, we did just that. I went to Zumba, and he went for a swim. I had done Zumba many times before, but it was in a class of about 45-60 women. Last night's class had about 100 girls and a few men stuffed into a teeny dance studio. It was hot and sweaty, but so much fun! I could barely see the instructor because I was in the back row, but what I could see was awesome! I love dancing, even though I'm not at all good at it, and Zumba is just the place to dance and no one cares what you look like because they all look the same. This class is offered three times a week, and my goal is not to miss any of those classes. I'm hoping to get back into shape, and loose some weight so I can feel pretty again.