Fitness Update

Since I stopped drinking regular coke I have lost 8 pounds (about 3.5 kilos)!!!

Since I started my crusade for a flab free life in April I have lost a total of 18 pounds (a little over 8 kilos)!

Isn't that fabulous?

On top of everything I've totally slacked on the exercise and the weight still continues to come off.

Now thats my kind of weight loss program!

I can already feel the pounds melting away!

Ok, lets not get carried away. Its only day two of the treadmill but things are moving along nicely.

I never could find a use for that little remote that came with my ibook but now that problem has been solved! I've been taking my cute computer downstairs with me, hooking it up to some little speakers and jammin' my way through the workout. Perfectly positioned in the small catch-all on the treadmill sits that little remote and when something I dont want to hear comes on I just zap it away. Fabulous!

Now its time to eat!

Big news on the exercise front

I'm getting a treadmill tomorrow.

That means, not only will I have fantastic abs (I've already lost almost 4 inches around my waist) but I will also be amazingly skinny. (and that pizza I had for dinner tonight wont matter so much!)

My Aunt told me she found a picture of me that was taken shortly before I went to France in 2002 and she said that I looked so skinny! Its true, I was much thinner back then - I was going to the gym on a regular basis and I was single. I tend to pack on the weight when I'm in a relationship. Maybe its the comfort - maybe its always been the beer - but like the Barenaked Ladies song says: "She's like a baby, I'm like a cat. When we are happy, we both get fat."

Anyway, moving on to more interesting things than my state of physical fitness, my stupid good friend Rodger* tagged me with some silly meme and I guess I have to do it. But I'm not passing it on.

Here are 10 things about me that you might not already know or might find interesting:

1. Upon returning from France I developed an allergy to all alcohols. If I have just a couple of sips of a drink, my face turns red and splotchy, gets super hot and swells up in odd shaped welts. Its lovely.

2. I cant remember a damn thing about my childhood except for what I see in pictures and even then I wonder if I actually remember the events or if I just know they happened because we have the pictures to prove it.

3. I love Barry Manilow but have seen him only twice in concert. Once as a teenager and once last year.

4. I cannot tell a lie. Really. I'm a horrible liar.

5. I have an extremely vivid recurring dream (and have had this dream for almost 10 years) where I search frantically for my college boyfriend only to have anything and everything get in the way of me actually finding him. In the dream, I know that if I can find him, we will be together forever and go off happily into the sunset and my heart is broken each time when I am not successful. Can you say haunting regret?

6. Im a CourtTV/A&E junkie. I love Forensic Files, First 48, Cold Case Files, American Justice, The Investigators, Dominick Dunne's Power Privilege and Justice, Til Death do Us Part, and Suburban Secrets. I'm also addicted to all Law and Orders.

7. I must not be that interesting because I'm having a hard time coming up with 10 things.

8. Austria is the place I loved the most in Europe. Salzburg and Hallstatt were dreamy and I would love to visit there again.

9. I'm a big cry baby. Movies, music, commercials you name it - I'll cry when listening to/watching anything. Especially things about little boys and their moms or fathers and their daughters. Talk about tapping the well. Pass the Kleenex!

10. I've had glasses since I was in college, but I never wear them.


Voila!

* Just kidding R, you know I love you! ;)

Ab Jam on Demand

I don't believe it myself but I found an ab workout where I actually don't feel the need to yell at the instructor. Oh sure, I still talk to her a bit, but she is very supportive and when I want to give up she tells me to hang in there and that its really going to pay off because I'll have fantastic abs! For some reason, instead of irritating the hell out of me she is actually believable!

Now thats the kind of encouragement a girl needs.

Of course there is this girl in the back row that has very bizarre abs. She is as white as a ghost and she seems to have a lot of extra skin sliding around over her muscles. They only flash to her once or twice but it freaks me out a bit. Daddy, I do NOT want abs (a boat) like this! BEURK!

Anyway, if you have Comcast Cable check out Ab Jam ! You wont regret it..........much.

Day five of the Amazing Ab Alteration

I went back to the 30 minute pilates for abs workout last night.

When the knock-out-bod-expert-leg-lifting-and-rotating-like-mad pilates lady says something stupid like "you should really be feeling it now" I tend to yell back: "No shit, lady!"

And when she says "if you need to, rest your shoulders and take a break" I found myself chiming in with "thank fucking god" or "its about fucking time".

I even told the yoga for abs dude to shut up and that he was a total fuck wit. Yes, out loud.

That said, I guess I should really steer clear of the actual taught-by-people/full-of-people workout classes at the gym.

I'm sure that in the middle of a session, while everyone is concentrating on their "powerhouse" or doing their double open leg rolling around on the floor bullshit* I would forget where I was and start swearing at the instructor just like I swear at the TV.

On the up side, all of that swearing and pilates is starting to make a visible difference. My clothes are fitting better! I feel great!

Yah, whatever. I said its making a difference, ok? It is. I swear.


*See? I cant even get through one sentence about exercise without cussing up a storm!

Pain in the gut

Today is day three of the big belly bust and my abs (or lack there of) are starting to feel a bit sore.

At least its good to know that there are some muscles hiding in there somewhere!

Slim is the new Fat!

I've decided that I'm fat.

Well, too fat. I've always been a bit fat, but now its getting out of control. And the area that is really out of control is my middle. Ugh.

So, I went out today and bought a floor mat so I can start doing some exercise at home since Comcast has ExerciseTV with on demand workouts!

Earlier this afternoon I did my first 30 minute pilates for abs workout and it was great.

I'm now drinking a kir and waiting for my artichoke to finish cooking.

Perhaps I'll have to do a 10 minute quick workout later tonight to balance things out. ;)