Here I Go Again

Welcome Back!  This summer has been hectic - filled with lots of travel, family, friends & fun, including becoming a Certified Zumba Instructor.  It's also been filled with a few demons.

The demons arrived in August and just finally went away…I think.  Those demons are my "old" thoughts: losing weight is so hard, preparing the right foods is time-consuming, I don't have the time to get a workout in today.

Yup, I thought them all throughout most of August.  Now don't get me wrong - I still did some bike riding, some running, and some Zumba, but not like I had been doing and certainly not with great focus.  In the summer at our house we tend to eat healthier than we do the rest of the year, but the wine bug got ahold of me and the sugar and salt bugs joined right in.  As a result I stopped looking at my portion sizes so closely and just enjoyed life…in more ways than I should have!

But that's what makes us human, right?  We are always going to have "life" which can get in the way of our real goals.

So, of course, I began mentally beating myself up about not keeping up with my LIFE program.  Old habits die hard.  It's been making me think about Daris from The Biggest Loser again…remember when he went home for 30 days and trained for the marathon but fought the food demons at night?

But "brain" help came in form of the doctor I saw in Santa Monica back in May.  We had a conference call last week and he told me my body chemistry is still so far off that unless I maintain my "California" lifestyle forever my body will slowly continue to gain it back.  Is he kidding?  Nope.

So he's sending me a regimen of meds, herbs, etc. to work on my body chemistry to get it balanced again.  Because once I regain balance - in my body and my brain and my life - things will begin working in my favor.  Hello!  That's all I need to make me smile.  The package should arrive today and I look forward to reading & digesting his full report plus beginning the "Fix My Body For Good" protocol.

On another good note, today I'm back with half of the Wonder Women (Sharon aka Sharona & Clare) and we're battling each other in Game On!  No matter what, I find the Game On! way of eating is the easiest, healthiest way for me to emulate my food at LIFE.  So I weighed in this morning and reported it to my Competitors…heh heh.  Because I weigh so much more than them I'll lose more every week, but I've got to make sure my scorecard is as perfect as can be.  We still haven't figured out a prize, but I'm thinking they have to detail my car, or buy me a Gucci bag, or make my meals for a week…ha!

I've already been to the gym today and did 45 minutes of interval sprinting on the treadmill.  My old trainer Marc saw me and my beet red face dripping with sweat and told me he was so happy to see me working hard that he wanted to kiss me!  I'll have to post a picture…you'll want him to kiss you too…ha ha!

I start a bootcamp with Marc next week - 3 days, 1.5 hours each day.  Plus I'll do another 45+ minutes of cardio on my own which is so easy to get in with my Zumba.  On the days I don't train with Marc I'll do a minimum of 1 hour cardio, but in many cases it will be 2 hours because I'm choreographing my own Zumba routines and I need to get them as close to perfect as possible so I can begin teaching classes.

So Fall is almost here and I'm back on track.  It feels great!