Weazing the Juice

I had been talking to a couple of people about juicing for a while, but the price tag of juicers kept me hesitant to make the purchase, so when I saw the Jack Lalanne juicer on clearance at my local Target I claimed.  SCORE!! Besides the fact that I was thinking of substituting meals, I LOVE kitchen gadgets.  So after a week an a half of having a juice for breakfast (fruit based) and a juice for dinner (veggie based) I've lost about 3 lbs.  This isn't amazing, but I've been eating basically whatever I want for lunch and not working out. 

On top of that, I've had basically the most stressful two months of work ever.  Cleaning up 22 months of someone else's mess with long hours had me running for the fried chicken, pizza & McDonald's and the scale had started creeping up on me.  

On top of the juicing, the hubby and I decided to make a bet.  We're leaving on vacation on Saturday and we're both big shoppers so for the last 3 weeks before we leave, we've bet our shopping budgets that we won't go out to eat at all.  Any indiscretion means $50 from one's budget with be added to the other's shopping budget.  My husband has cheated once alone and once with me with means an extra $50 for me at the outlets!  The only problem is, that the majority of our meals will inevitably end up on the road, so those 3lbs will probably be added back by the time we return in a week.  I'm hoping all the walking and chasing after our 1 year old we'll be doing will help.  

Either way, once we come back, it's time to get serious.  My youngest brother is getting married in the Spring and all the bridesmaids are stick figures of course except me, so I'd really like to not be "the fat one," especially by this big a margin.  For my other brother's wedding I was pregnant, so I'd like to get to my pre-pregnancy weight for this wedding.  So I'll definitely need to get back to working out again, which I'm not really too stoked about.  I used to go to a kick boxing class (Les Mills) that I LOVED.  The music is great and there were real routines, not just the instructor making up new moves as we went along.  On top of that, the instructor was a HOTTIE, but he's since moved to only personal training so that leaves me without a class I really enjoy.  I've done zumba, and it's fun, but I really don't want to do that everyday.  It leaves me looking into the local gym for class options.  I know people are really into cross fit right now, but it just doesn't seem exciting to me.  Any other class suggestions?

Starting to dance...

Before I had my kid last July, I had loved going to a body combat class (under the Les Mills line of classes) but the instructor has since given up the class and I am unable to find any others here in town.  I went a little illegal and downloaded the instructor classes and I've started doing them at home, but I've noticed I missed the group fitness environment.  Honestly, it's too easy to fast forward through squats when I'm in my living room.  I really only do them when peer pressure and giant mirrors reflecting my wide hips and lower belly back at me are factors in my work out.  Thus, I decide to look into other group classes.  Coincidentally, my mother in law just started going to a Zumba class close to home.  I must admit (and my one follower can corroborate) I owned Zumba VHS tapes (VHS people - or person since I doubt many people are reading this) back when I was in college so when she brought it up I was curious.  It's a big fad going on in town, but I wanted something with upbeat music and a lot of other chubbies that wouldn't judge me.  So Monday I went to my first class and luckily I liked it. The studio is only two months old so it's all in good shape and the instructors are young and fun.  I was used to the Les Mills format, where no mater what class you go to, the same song means the same steps everywhere, so I was a little disappointed when the steps varied by instructor.  But the good part to that was if I didn't like one routine, then I might like the other.  Bad part is my brain learns the routine and I start doing squats when others are doing some jumping jack steps.  The price isn't bad, $40 for unlimited classes for a month, only issue is that with the husband starting school again soon my chance of going daily like I have this past week will be gone.  The alternative is $25 for 10 classes or $4 for each individual class.  I think I might do the month first and see how many times I can make it out and then switch the the 10 class option once he starts school and I can only go 3 or 4 times a week.  Then I can do my bootleg kickboxing videos on the nights I'm can't go to class and hopefully that will work out to work outs at least 5 days a week.  


So now that I have the diet to work out. I have taken the first step of cutting out all the really bad crap I was eating, namely daily trips to either McDonald's, Wendy's or Taco Bell.  The has helped with the weight and I've lost a couple of pounds already so we'll see where I wanna go from here.  I've done low carb diets with a lot of success in the past, but with a 10 month old and the husband, I'm not sure how much time I'll have to cook and shop.  Of course, that's an excuse so I must work through all of those, too.  This will be the goal for this upcoming week.  Until next week...


The Chubby JLo


Link to the Zumba studio's FB Page...
http://www.facebook.com/AdanesnesFitness

Making my introduction...

In 2010 my husband and I had some trouble getting pregnant and I decided to try to lose some weight.  I've never been thin, but at the time I was quickly approaching a weight that was not acceptable for a short, little 5'1'' lady like myself.  Luckily, I had amazing success following a low carb/high protein diet and working out, mostly with some kick boxing.  Of course, as soon as I dropped 35 lbs, I got pregnant and in July 2011 we had our beautiful baby girl.  Fast forward nearly 10 months and after breastfeeding and still eating like I was pregnant, I find myself approaching that horrid weight again and badly out of shape.  So I talked to my buddy and she suggested I start up a blog while she picks up hers.  We can follow my progress as I try to lose those 35 lbs again and hopefully we can support each other.  Honestly, I'll probably talk about my kid and post random pictures of other stuff I'm doing (currently I'm obsessed with doing cute things to my nails) but I'd really like to use this show that once again I can do it!