Been a while

I haven't written here in a while. Lots will be going on Zumba wise in the next few weeks. Awesome!

I think we need to start a You know your a Zumba Addict When...When the day after oral surgery you still go to two Zumbas! ( My instructor had her wisdom teeth out & still did Zumba. I had all mine pulled & still went to Zumba ).

...When almost nothing is going to make you miss Zumba.

...When sitting at home on a Zumba night is NEVER even an option or a thought that enters your head.

...Rain? Snow? Who cares it is Zumba night.

...When you think, will these shoes be good for Zumba? And they are all they are for.

...Sit Zumba Money aside so it is ready to go :)

...A New Event pops up & you do everything in your power to go. Bye Jonathan, Bye Jake... ROFL. But they understand & are just as happy that you get to know because they know you love it.

What are some others?

So happy that I can start going more now too. I am happy where I am, but also wouldn't mind a bit if I lost some more/went down another size. I have started Crunches for this sickening belly I have. Course, I look at pictures when I was really little like 4-6 years old. I was a bean pole, but still had a belly. Something I just always had. So, going to be hard to get rid of it. But even shrink some I would be happy.

So who has newly started? When are you going to start? I plan to even drive to Erie to help a friend go to her first class! You can do it! :)

Zumba Love <3

Different styles

I think it is great that though friends do different things to lose weight, get healthy or stay healthy, we still meet in the middle at Zumba! A friend does Weight Watchers, a Friend goes to the gym, others walk, But all still go to Zumba & bust our butts. We all have our weight loss, our badges of honor & it is great. We can cheer for each other, be so happy for each other. We go walking, going to 5 k's & it is awesome! More & more friends are there with us & working towards a better them! It is amazing!

I am so thankful! Weight loss is awesome & great even if it was kept to yourself. But it is SO much more when you can get a high 5, thats awesome & people really care & thrilled you did it! It is great to be around Zumba People! I tell ya, ROCKS!

Proximity Really Is Power!!!

WOOT WOOT GIRLS! We got this & We deserve this! We are awesome!

Zumba Love <3

I'm Back!

It was good to add in the morning class of Zumba today! Fun way to get to do all the songs you like as different classes have different play lists. It was a small class but so fun.

And I'M Back! I got to do the regular class at 6p today & let me tell you, I have SOOOO missed that playlist. It was such a blast. It was rough having to leave knowing she had another class coming up, but I got to go to the morning so that is good :)

Can't wait for THursday!!!

THE TIME IS HERE...

WOOT WOOT!!!

I can be a addicted to Zumba again!! I can go to 4 of AWESOME Rachel's Zumba Classes!!!! I am so excited. I so need to get back to into it. It has been way too long. So, 2 classes on Tuesday & 2 classes on Thursday!! So happy too that she is getting punch cards because going times a week was going to be rough on the wallet, worth it, but rough, LOL. So this will be AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SO happy to get back into it. The energy & smiles alone is just what I need :)

Zumba Love <3

Getting there...

Well, today is my last long Tuesday! I am so excited! It will be better when it is finally here, but still knowing I actually made it, feels great. ( well I shouldn't say that til Friday, but still, ROFL )

Today is my last 7:30p class but that just means that I can start now going to Awesome Rachel's 9:30a/6p Tuesday & 9a/6p class on Thursday. WOOT WOOT! ( Or as one calls me, Michelle McWoot LOL ). I am so excited to get back into it.

It was rough keeping up on everything thru training. Though I worked hard & even lost some weight. Not much but not gaining just proved I can do this & it will stay off!!!! Getting back into more classes will just help with that!

Have a busy few weeks. Just finished that Master Class Saturday. Doing a 5 K we signed up for at Zumba with the Stars, in February I think it was, this Sunday. November brings Belly Dancing class & two Master Classes, Woot Woot!!!

I am so happy to get back to Zumba. It really is the best stress relieve, mood enhancer & smile giver there is!

Zumba Love <3

50 pounds lost

I am not sure anyone is reading this anymore, LOL. But, still going to type. It is going to get more busy Zumba wise real soon & that is AWESOME!

Zumba Tuesday rocked! Of course. I am so ready to go more often.

Yesterday I did hit my 50 pounds lost goal! I am so excited! It has been a long time going. It really makes me happy that I got there, even with all this training, lack of Zumba & lack of walking. That really makes me feel so much better about myself. That I did it, even with all that went on.

I am going to work towards my next goal of 6 more pounds. If I don't get there, I will be okay, but still is a goal that is there. But not as much as my previous goals. I really wanted to get to 50 & I am there. I am very proud of myself & so thankful for Zumba!!

Tomorrow, we are going to an awesome Master Class & DeeJay Francis will be there, Woot! The best part is going with great friends & Shaking it!! :)

One more week of training & then I will be Zumba'fied! Can not wait! I am soooo ready to be done with this horrible schedule. 10-7 just really ruins your whole day. It is too late to do alot of anything. Your morning flies & it is time to log in. I am so ready!

Well Have a great day!

Zumba Love <3

Got to get back on the ball

Last night, I just felt like I had gained weight. It isn't showing on the scale but I am worried I am gaining inches or something. I am so glad training is going to be over soon! But until then, I need to kick myself in the butt & get things done. I need to get my work outs in the morning done & what I can do after too! I need to find better snacks that will fill me up & try to get quick meals ready before training starts. One of the issues is that our lunch is way past lunch & we end way past dinner. So I end up having to eat on my 15 minute breaks for lunch & dinner. I need to make sure that I can eat something filling but not bad for me. It is almost over I keep reminding myself. All the next two weeks I will be on the phones too, so that will help. No way to snack in between the times on the phone. But just sitting here for 8 hours just sucks for weight.

Got to go to Zumba last night & it rocked :) So thankful for that class, but can't wait til I can start going MORE! LOL. Someone in the class came up & told me it was great to see me & she was missing me. So that really made me feel good :) I really miss going too! Getting there, Getting there!

I need to just make it fit. Need to get some more walking in. I can be walking Mondays & Wednesdays. I didn't walk Monday & should have. At least til I can get back to Zumba, I need to take all the chances I can get.

Saturday I am doing my first 5 k with a friend :) It is for Dyslexia so even more of a win. I have another 5 k in a couple of weeks too. I am very excited about that. Wishing I would have started looking into some before now but I will be looking next year :)

Well off to get in my work out, Woot!

Zumba Love <3

THANK YOU WONDERFUL ZUMBA INSTRUCTOR RACHEL

Well as most of you know, well if anyone is reading these, LOL. I was concerned about missing Zumba & weight gain or whatnot.

My awesome Zumba Instructor happened to be able to add a class time where I can go! I have been doing that, My flat abs in the mornings, the Zumba on Saturdays plus trying to get in walking.

I LOST A POUND!!!!!!!!!! I know, a pound big deal, however it is. I so needed to see that pound ( actually a pound & some ounces ) come off. I need to know I wasn't going to gain it back. It is slow, but it is still staying where it was or in fact lost a pound!!!! I am offically 49 pounds lost! Now to get that one more pound to hit 50!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So very thankful!!!! Woot Woot!

Last night was that very Zumba class. It was a ton of fun!!! Felt great to really be moving all those muscles & sweat! LOL.

Have a great Zumba Day!

ZUMBA LOVE <3

Woot someone else just posted they are trying Zumba!

WOOT! Just got a post on facebook that someone else is trying Zumba! I am soooo excited!!! Really made my day! I hope she really likes it. Most everyone I got onto it started it, kept going & love it. So I am so excited! Can't wait to hear how it goes :)

Saturday I did get to go to Zumba toning & Regular Zumba. It was great. Heather & Rachael went too. I really like toning. Their regular Zumba isn't the same as my Rachel's but, it works LOL.

Today I did my Zumba Flat Abs. I really need to keep that up til I can go move often :)

Zumba Love <3

Woot Made it to Zumba

So last nights Zumba rocked! It was alot of old ones we haven't done in a while, some I have never done & some ones we do at the regular time. It was great. Once I get used to that line up again :) Awesome. A Zumba friend & I were just talking how a Zumba Songs of Rachel Past or something would be awesome. So that is really neat. It is was so much fun. Great to see everyone. Took some pictures while there :) It was great to get the work out again :)

Didn't get my Zumba done this morning. Just seemed to run out of time :( Going to go walking tonight, see if I fixed my Endomondo app & of course use my Cardio Trainer app. Jonathan is at Youth Group tonight so I have some time to do that til he is done.

Still haven't lost anymore weight, but haven't gained either. Hoping to get that moving along some but might be hard until October.

Zumba Love <3

Yes Zumba Night!!!

So, I have been doing my Zumba Flat Abs this week. It is no where near the work out I want or miss, but it works for something.

Today thought, Woot, Is the new 7:30 Zumba Class with the Awesome Rachel! I can NOT wait. 2 days missed felt like 4 weeks! :( I can't wait to get there & have a sweat fest & of course a rocking fun time :) Looks like most I know/talk to are going to come that time. I keep getting I miss you texts or whatnot. Makes ya feel great! I just can't wait til training is over so I won't have to just have texts :)But I appreciate I get them :) Makes me feel still included, LOL.

I have a countdown going & 7 surely can't come fast enough today!

Zumba Love <3

YES!

Well I got the good news last night. A sneaky awesome Zumba Instructor surpised me with information that she is going to have a Zumba class at 7:30 on Tuesdays! WHICH MEANS I CAN GO!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited. :) And no one leaked the surprise to me, snots! LOL. But I love that they didn't in case it didn't go thru. I can't wait til Tuesday!!!

Doing Zumba DVD's at home just is NOT the same for me. I have a very hard time turning it on & doing it. It isn't as fun, it isn't as sweat fest, etc. I just don't do it, but even when I do turn it on, It just isn't the same. You need the energy of the instructor, the energy of the other people.

So, woot woot!! :)

Fitting in Zumba

I need to get a schedule down to fit in the Zumba at home. I need to make sure to find a way to make it fit in the day. Today, I didn't have 15 minutes to even try. I should get to walk tonight if the weather holds.

Plan is to get the zumba dvd's done once Jonathan leaves for school. Then I can get things done like laundry, vacuum etc plus then get my shower before training starts. Thinking that should work well. Not sure when my lunches are going to be during training yet. Waiting til todays lunch to see about when that will be. But don't think that will work well as it will be after Jake is home from school & should be already laying down, which means no Zumba then.

Going to just get it fit in right after Jonathan leaves for school & that should work. Still should be walking 3 days a week, so that should work well. Reminding myself it will be so nice once training is over. So many Zumba day time options & evening options. That will be great.

I would love to get a treadmill for Jonathan & I for just when there is no other choice. I didn't want to get one because I just didn't think I would use it. But I think it would be nice for the winter & the just in cases. We will see if the price is ever right comes up LOL.

Well for those going to Zumba tonight, Rock it & miss me!

Zumba Love <3

Lack of Blogging

For anyone that is actually following this, LOL. Sorry for the lack of blogging. I think I have been just kind of down, well more than kind of, really down about this whole training thing. I know very well that I need to kick the down to the curb, get over it, realize it isn't that bad & be happy that it will be okay when training is done. BUT...easier said than done.

I am working on it.

Thursday was one ROCKING Zumba. I know you are all shocked. Saturday morning I had a friend come for her first Zumba & another friend for her first Toning. It was great fun & a sweat fest. I am glad I can still go on Saturdays at least. Though I will miss Rachel & The love Zumba Crew there. It is nice that they have again & again told me they are going to miss me & can't wait for the 6 weeks to be over. Yay!

Yesterday we walked a ton at the fair, which was great. Got in those steps I needed, especially with eating fair food! LOL. Today got in a mile on my own while Jonathan was running & 2 miles with a friend. Now I am to be cleaning my room/office to get ready for chaos starting tomorrow. But as you can read, I am not. It is a bit overwhelming & no real clue where to start. My bed is really calling my name. I know only 8 but it surely is screaming to jump in.

Tomorrow is going to be a crazy day! I have to run the car down to the dealership for two things that were to be fixed 3 years ago, but is finally getting fixed, stop at the bank, go to another bank & then head home to start training. Once training is over, go walking with a friend & then collaspe in bed! :)

Well I have caught you up & will I am sure be blogging more often. Have a great week!

Zumba Love <3

Zumba Zumba!

I did my Zumba Flat Abs this morning. I am glad I am back into that.

Then tonight, ZUMBA ROCKED! I don't know what it was about tonight but it was just a sweat fest & just AWESOME! Totally got me out of the funk I had gotten into all day. So that is always great. Course that is what Zumba ALWAYS does for me. Love being with the girls & having a BLAST!

Then we went walking after. Got in 2 miles.

16, 880 ish steps in today. But I am quite tired now after that kick butt Zumba :)

Zumba Love <3

And its Monday

I almost didn't do my flat abs! EKK!  I know it! Luckily a friend was online & when I said I couldn't get motivated she said go do it. LOL. Yay! I did get that in before work.

Work systems were down ALL day long. So I was able to get all the laundry caught up! That was awesome. Plus that means I was going down two stories & up two stories alot today. When normally I just sit for 8 hours. So that was also good.

Jonathan had scouts tonight so walked at Pearson Park where he was having his meeting. Did 2 miles & then a friend joined me & we did 2 more miles. Made me feel alot better to get some more steps in. Friday, not sure if I mentioned it, I totally forgot to have my Pedometer on! ALL DAY LONG! I didn't get 1 step logged. First time since I have gotten it. How awful! Talk about a major brain fart! LOL. But I know I did alot so that is all that matters.

Tomorrow is awesome Zumba with Rachel. I will do my flat abs too in the morning! LOL.

I need to change or add or who knows. I am running into that "brick wall" that my friend who has lost 80 said I would hit. It has never been easy or fast for me, but in the past 2 months it was steady. Now, I am stuck & it is really annoying! LOL. I really want to lose 10 more pounds ( what I should lose is another story LOL But 10 would be great ), so hoping I can just get right on over this wall that I am being slammed into. I do have to work more on that. Hopefully I can:)

Zumba Love <3

Walking Sunday

Today we went to a flea market about an hour away. It is bigger than most around here. It was nice time to hang with my guys & of course to get in steps :)

Also went walking with the girls. We have a set "date" to walk Sunday nights. We went out to Moraine & got in 6 miles. Loving it! :) Don't like that the dark is starting to come sooner but I do like the crisp air of fall. We had a good time like we always do :) A tank I had bought that was tight when I bought it, is so big now it hangs too low & my whole bra shows. For sure last time wearing that!

I got in 18,860 steps in so far today. Will get about a hundred or so more before bed. I am ready for sure but need to wait til Jake heads off to work.

Tomorrow is Jonathan's first day of Junior Year. So I will be up early seeing him off, getting some pictures, etc.

Open House

Today I went with a friend who Zumba's with me all the time & I got into Zumba Toning and a Brand New to Zumba friend to an open house of a new Zumba place. The New To Zumba Friend lives in that area & I do Toning with these instructors. It was really nice. I was thinking, Man can't wait til my Rachel ( Yes I always say my Rachel, ROFL ) could have that. She is trying to & it will be awesome when she can & I can be the one helping with the Open House not just going to check it out. We did do a demo to show the new to Zumba friend. She was concerned about could she do it, and hopefully we eased her mind some. The instructors talked to her & let her know it takes time. After the demo they let her know she did great :) And she did :).

After that went walking with the friend that drove me over. Since we didn't get to do more than one song & not really get in a Zumba or Zumba toning. We did 3 miles out at Moraine.

Jake was working on the van so got back to help with that. Then we went to the Fly In at the Local Little Airport. Jonathan was working it with Civil Air Patrol so got great pictures, seen all the planes & classic cars plus got in a TON of steps :) YAY! 17,670 right now. Won't get much more but I am sure at least another hundred.

Hope everyone had a great day!

Zumba Love <3

Zumba Rocked

Zumba last night was awesome. My legs are feeling the Irish ... Song. LOL. It was great. Lots of fun! It was a very sweaty but awesome night. Even got a booty smack out of La Bamba, Woot Woot!! :) Tons of fun!

Everyone was not happy I was going to be missing. It made me feel good that so many cared :) Hope that time FLIES so I can be back. DVD's are NOT going to be same. NO WAY IN HECK! Missing my Rachel for sure won't be good, and then all my Zumba Friends will suck.

Then did some walking last night after Zumba. Got in a ton of steps. As I am typing this though I am realizing I left my pedometer upstairs, yuck! LOL. Have to go get that now. With doing laundry I will for sure be getting some steps going up & down the stairs. Will be doing Zumba on the tv at some point today since Friday is a non zumba day. Off to get my pedometer & change out laundry :)

Zumba Love <3

Sad news has cometh...

Well, I really don't want to talk about it because it really brings me down. But I am going to have to miss Zumba for 6 weeks. Well Zumba for Rachel. Yes, you heard that right. Yesterday it was very rough for me. I know people are like, whats the big deal? So its 6 weeks, you will get back...Yeah you are all right. But, it is still hard. This is not something here or there for me. Something I miss because something "better" comes along. Yes if something has to be happened & no way around it, sure miss but otherwise I just can't. That is my stress release, that is my fun time, that is where I get to talk to friends, Hang out with friends, people are happy I'm there. What if I lose my spot?! What if people don't miss me after week 2? . I know silly but things that run thru my head. Then of course the major thing, what if I back pedal, what if I gain weight back? What if don't do enough to lose anymore. ( Course I don't know if I can lose anymore but still trying ).

Training hours are going to be smack in the middle of the day & long, so that really messes with things. My eating is going to be totally screwed up because my lunch will be mid afternoon. ( so weird ) Not enough time to really do much in the mornings or after, because it is getting darker earlier & earlier. So alot of sitting on my butt. Have to pay attention, lots of info in a small time, so can't be sneaking off to my gazelle & just listening either, LOL.

I will have my dvd's at home ( which isn't the same but better than NOTHING ), Saturday Zumba Toning & Zumba Regular, Try to do some walking & hopefully a Zumbathon will pop up somewhere :) Trying to think positive & hope the 6 weeks I can't be there FLIES!

My Last Zumba Day with Rachel for 6 weeks is September 1st. Pout!

I will make it thru. It sucks sometimes the things we have to do, but, I have to do this for more pay & more benefit.

SO this means all you that CAN go, BETTER go! Go in my place, start it, love it, Do it!!! :) Make me feel better by making sure you are going & starting it!!! Come on! You can do it!

Zumba Love <3

A whole lotta shaking going on

So today an earthquake hit Virginia & we felt it up here! I have never been in one and I know this was beyond mild our way, but wow! Weird feeling!

Lots of other shaking going on too. I did stick with it & did my Zumba Flat abs this morning. Yay me.

Today was also ZUMBA with Rachel! Which of course always rocks!!! Even though she threw in Hotel California ( Eeeekkkkkkkkk my dreaded song ), I love her anyway!! LOL. We for sure rocked La Bamba. Just love that song :) Had the fun line going & all :) Woot Woot!

Someone at Zumba brought in more hip scarves so more people were rocking the hip scarves. Woot Woot! That is so awesome & so much fun! Makes you shake it more, pop your hip more & shimmy more, which is always of course awesome.

I did a goof today. I forgot to change my pedometer over from the pants to my work out clothes. I missed about 3 songs plus all the walking around, etc. I did get myself back to 10,000. But missing a good bit. Oh well, it happens, LOL.

I hope everyone had a Zumba Wonderful Day! :)

Zumba Love <3

The people you meet when you walk...

One of my regular walking partners was still at work. So I planned to work while Jonathan was at his scout meeting. It was the last meeting at Pearson Park. So off I went to walk the trail when I hear, Michelle! It was someone from Zumba :) So off we went! It was a great time of talking & laughing, story telling & learning more about each other. It was great. We kicked it fast & got in 4 miles in a blink. Very awesome!

I am so glad I went too. As I explained, Mondays are a hard day for me with steps/exercise. So that was just perfect. It was of course also nice to learn more about a wonderful person & talk.

Only at 13,000 but that is over my 10,000 goal so I am happy.

So glad tomorrow is Zumba & hold me accountable, I better do my Zumba Flat Abs tomorrow morning! LOL.

Back on Track

I had gotten the Zumba Dvd's in the past. Not really to replace going to Zumba because for me, it is NO WHERE NEAR the same. I wouldn't do it if I had to just do dvd's or there is also a game. The energy, fun & friendship isn't there. The dvds are mainly as a filler if I couldn't go. Well in checking them out, there is a Flat Abs one that is only 18 minutes. Love it! A. Abs is where I need a ton of work. B. 18 minutes is possible in the morning before work. I was doing really well, then totally bombed on doing it. I am started back at it & hope that the blog posts will help me more accountable to do it. Plus we replaced our VERY VERY OLD and was VERY VERY cheap DVD player so now I wouldn't get frustrated when it won't play. It plays perfect & fine now, yay!

I did that this morning already, Yay me! Mondays, with scouts, makes it so I can't Zumba. Its a bummer because all the places do it at the times I can't with drop off & pick up. So until Jonathan gets his license, I will just walk instead. It isn't the same steps/calories burned/whole body work out, but it is better than doing nothing LOL.


Mondays are always hard as it is my long day at work. So I sit most all of the day attached to a computer & phone. Then, it is li dinner, then scouts, then work again then get Jake to work & bed. So it is always my horrible day for exercise. I am really glad I got the flat abs in, I walk tonight too while he is at scouts, so that will help.

Yesterday there wasn't Zumba either. Most places don't offer Sunday at all. It is very hard to find a Sunday Zumba. So went walking with a friend. Got in 4 miles. That with all my other walking around yesterday with my guys, I got almost 16,000 steps. Yay!

Zumba Toning

So my friend came to her first toning class. She really liked it & for sure going to be coming back! Woot Woot! It was alot of fun.

My other friend forgot to set her alarm so she didn't make it for the regular Zumba class. Pout! But hopefully she will make it to another one.

I got in 15,371 steps so far today so that is really awesome :)

I went thru the pictures from Party in the Pink & finally got them up & posted. Make sure to check those out.

After almost a whole week of Zumba of some sort, tomorrow is going to be withdrawal, LOL. Still going to go walking so that is great!

Party in Pink Zumbathon called on account of rain :(

But we still had TONS of fun!

We had fun dancing & talking in the car. Waiting in line to register. Running up to our spot! We danced, we laughed, we cried ( when the survivors or those going thru treatment right now were talking ) & we laughed some more! It was a great day! ( Minus the time standing out of the rain with hopes it would stop, LOL. )

But all in all it was awesome. 100% of the proceeds are going to Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Beto is going to come BACK to Pittsburgh & we can go to that one free.

It was spent with great friends & a wonderful husband! We had so much fun together, laughed & laughed & smiled & smiled. I am thankful for good friends. I am so thankful for my understanding & caring husband. He is happy I go to Zumba, wants me to go to every & any Zumbathon, Master class, Zumba Class I can go to. He will go with me & take pictures just to spend time with me, but not be "in the way" and trying to get me to not pay attention to what I am doing. For every time I called, Jake take this picture or that, he also did 10 on his own to grab our fun & silliness :) Gave me his rain coat & had fun at the baseball game when sports really aren't his thing. LOL. When his poor eyes were shutting from being awake 24 hours, he still wouldn't leave to go lay down in the van. I am thankful for him.

We did a few of our own zumba moves to songs playing but never did get to fully Zumba! That is okay, fitting in two today. Toning & Regular Zumba. Taking a friend to Toning for the first time & Zumba for the first time today! Woot Woot!

Well I better head. I will write about how it went later. Uploading tons of pictures from yesterday. Make sure to check them out!

Zumba Love <3

Today's the day!!!!!

PARTY IN PINK!!!! Zumbathon in Pittsburgh with Beto & Company! 50% of proceeds goes to Susan G. Komen for the cure!!!! This is going to be such a fun day! Jake gets to go too!!! That will be awesome. Get to spend time with him & he can take pictures & video for us!!! That is just awesome too because it is very hard to get pictures while Zumba'ing! :)

Tickets, Check...Camera & Video, Check...Tons of pink, CHECK! Yes, I said Pink! LOL. Rachel had made the coolest shirts. On the front they have a Pirate on them ( after the Zumba we go to a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball game where Beto throws out the first pitch ) And it says We Treasure Our Chests. On the back is says Mueve La Cadera (Move your hips/body) with a Number 11 for the year! They are super Cool! The letters are in black & Gold (Pirates ) & the shirts are pink :)

We are going to run into a few instructor friends of Rachel's I have met & friended too. That should be great! We also had sat with for hours for the Today Show & friended an instructor from NYC that is going to be coming down too! Would be very cool if we ran into her. We are going really early so I am sure we will.

Zumba just opens some awesome doors! What a neat experience!

Well, I better get moving! We are leaving early, so 9:30! Woot Woot!!

Have a great day!!!

Zumba Love <3

A friend started Zumba Last night!

 After reading my posts & talking to me about it, A friend in Connecticut went to her first Zumba class last night! Woot Woot!!!! I am soooo glad she started! I wish I could have been there for her first class, but I am just glad I could be kind of a motivation from a far! She said it was interesting LOL. But, She is going back! She was saying she couldn't figure out where to put her feet, so not sure she got a work out. I let her know, She still did get a work out & the more she goes the more she will know where to put her feet! I so remember that stage! LOL. And even know, New Song, where do my arms go, my feet go, what are we doing?! LOL. But that is fun too! Figuring it all out!

I hope she continues on! But I am so glad she started :) Wooo Hooooo!!!

Zumba Love <3

Boom Boom Mamma

Today was great Rachel Zumba. I love when it runs over, oppps! LOL. Makes it all the more fun when it ends up being longer than an hour.

We were missing a few today but it happens here & there. I am just loving Boom Boom Mamma. That song is just so much fun. Course, I also Love La Bamba too. LOL. We were all silly today & did the line like 3 inches apart, right on top of each other, Hee hee! JUST TOO FUN!

One song I was all proud as Rachel pointed out to watch me for the "harder" step & she was doing the "easier" step for others. Made me smile ear to ear :)

Then Heather & I went walking. We got in 3 miles. Yay! My step count for today is 17, 616. Woot!

 Now it is time to detox & get ready for bed once Jake leaves for work. Tomorrow is the BIG DAY! Party In Pink In Pittsburgh with Beto & Company!!!!

Zumba <3

Lets see how this goes...

A wonderful friend of mine said, You should start a blog. Me? Why the heck would anyone want to follow a blog by me? She said all the ones interested in your journey with Zumba, Weight loss, etc. I said well who would that be? All those people that congrats you or that are starting Zumba now because of your posts. Ohh... Maybe then?

So we will see LOL. What better day to start this then a Zumba night! Woot Woot!

I am very new to this blog thing so be gentle with me.

Wednesday I announced I did in fact lose that one pesky pound that was holding me from my goal. I am down to 160, which 46 pounds lost! I am down from an 18w to a Size 10, and those size 10's aren't very tight :). I know I have lost alot of inches, just don't know how many as I lost my start numbers.

I am off my high cholesterol meds, I am off my Fibromyalgia Meds. I am dealing with my major Anxiety Issues way better. ( Still have days but always will ). I am way more upbeat, bouncy & smiling ( like I used to be for those that haven't seen me in years ). I don't sit around the house trying to tell myself to get up to do this or that. I still have my Flares, My soreness & sleep issues, but no where near like I did. Big one also, I don't have headaches all the time. It was getting to the point where 6 out of 7 days I had headaches & at least once a week a migraine. Now, my migraines are maybe once a month or 6 weeks. And headaches are very rare. I feel on top of the world most times, and so thankful that I finally said enough, what is this Zumba all about!

Zumba Addiction is really the only way to describe it, however this is one addiction that should catch on more not less. Zumba gives you somewhere to go, people that want you there, that miss you if you are gone. Zumba gives you new friends looking for the same things as you. Zumba lets you meet knew people, go to new places & experience new things. Zumba gives you confidence you couldn't find before. Zumba helps you find your smile you might have been missing. Zumba, helps you lose weight, get healthy, get in shape & most of all. ZUMBA MAKES YOU HAVE FUN!

I look back now at almost 7 months. I have been to 3 Zumbathons, 2 Master Classes, 1 Jam Class, Did two Demo's,  Zumba'ed in NYC on Today Show, Going tomorrow To Zumba in Pittsburgh with Beto & Crew. I have met so many wonderful people & tried so many things. I am so thankful.

So many people have said you are an inspiration. I would look around, Who? Me? No way. But, the more I am told, the more I smile! I hope I can inspire someone for any of the above reasons to get out there & try it! So I will try out this blog of my day to day Zumba life & hope that more people get inspired to go & try it! You won't regret it!

Zumba Love <3