Author: kimcooksey2017rbl

I have a van. When I first purchased my van, it took both of my hands to close the back door. The other day, I was talking to my mother on my phone while I was putting some thing in the back of my van. Without thinking, I just closed the back with one hand… no effort at all. At first, I didn’t realize what I had done. I was sitting in the front seat, and I stopped talking. I got off the phone, out of the car, and I had to do it again. I was amazed. I yelled out…  “I closed it with one hand!” (I may have said it more than once. ) There was a man walking passed me at the time, and looked out me like I had completely lost my mind, and began walking a little faster to get away from me. Although people may have thought I was crazy, I would super excited.

Then my husband and I were playing around on the couch while watching tv,  and he was trying to get a pillow from my hands.  I was holding on to the pillow with one hand and he was using two. He couldn’t get it away from me. Now, some might say he was acting that way on purpose. I say, Nay! Nay! I am becoming stronger than him! Watch out, people!

My daughter loves attending the Zumba for Kids on Wednesday nights. Since being introduced to the class,  she will ask me on Wednesday mornings if we are going to the gym. Many times (at 5:30 a.m.) I wanted to say no, but most of the time it is a yes.

I’m so glad there is something at the gym for her to do while I am working out. When we go to the stores, she will tell me that I am “parking too close Mommy, we got to walk!” Although she’s is right, I sometimes want to make her walk from the back of the parking lot, while I waited for her up front. (I never would do that…. maybe one day… nah just kidding…maybe.) She is a great little cheerleader!

I hate the treadmill! I would talk myself into getting on it and say…”Ooook. I will stay on this contraption for blah blah minutes… and that’s IT!” Now that I have been doing this healthy lifestyle change, I noticed something has changed slowly. Last week when I got on the treadmill, I started looking at a number of calories being burned instead of the amount of time I was spending on the machine.

It made a world of difference in my attitude toward that machine. I think he and I can finally get along!

Last Thursday after our team meeting, a few of us, who didn’t attend that Casting Crowns concert, decided to try the Dance Cardio class. Boy, was that a workout! I looked incredibly silly, probably like a beached whale trying its best to get back in the ocean, ( Got a good picture in your head? Well that is what I looked like! I know this because there was a huge mirror… ceiling to floor that we had to dance in front of). Anyhow, this beached whale stayed and participated in the class the entire hour. And I felt every minute of it. 😬
I felt like CRAWLING in the hall at work!  But I like to torture myself, I hope to attend the class next Thursday. 😂😂

On Saturday, a  teammate and I attended the Ultimate Aqua class. This wasn’t the class that we were going to participate in. We were wanting to go to the Aqua Zumba class. When I got there, I saw my teammate, who normally greets everyone with a smile, sitting in a chair not looking very happy. She then told that the class was cancelled, and it was replaced with the Ultimate Aqua class. I had already made up my mind that if she left, so was I. One, I know what I look like in a bathing suit, and just putting one on in front of other people was a major step for me, but I needed support… If I have someone to attend with, I would feel very guilty to leave, so I know I would stay. (I know this is something I need to work on… I need more confidence.) We were told that we didn’t need to go in the deep in and so we decided to leave. I’m so glad that I did. I had a lot of fun and I got a great workout. I will definitely be attending this class again.

Last Thursday after our team meeting, a few of us, who didn’t attend that Casting Crowns concert, decided to try the Dance Cardio class. Boy, was that a workout! I looked incredibly silly, probably like a beached whale trying its best to get back in the ocean, ( Got a good picture in your head? Well that is what I looked like! I know this because there was a huge mirror… ceiling to floor that we had to dance in front of). Anyhow, this beached whale stayed and participated in the class the entire hour. And I felt every minute of it. 😬
I felt like CRAWLING in the hall at work!  But I like to torture myself, I hope to attend the class next Thursday. 😂😂

This past week has been a struggle. I’m not exactly why. I’ve had cravings things that I haven’t had since I started. Also, it seems like everything is keeping me out of the gym this week.

I love the gym. It has officially become my “me” time. I do not get that often. Many days at home, I can’t go to the restroom alone. But at the gym, it is just me and my music. (Many days I am listening to HisRadio from the app on my phone.) When I’m on the treadmill, I will walk fast if it is an upbeat song, and slow down with a slower beat song.

Last week and this week my husband got sick and then  I became sick on Monday…I’m feeling better. But I haven’t been able to work out as much as I would like. But things are going to get better.

I saw this on Pinterest and I have started. It’s a cup where I place a stone for every pound I lose. So far, I’ve lost about 11 pounds. It seems like so little compared to the amount I need to lose, but when I look at the stones, I really see what an accomplishment that one pounds can add up to. Maybe when I reach the top I’ll treat myself to an ice cream sundae! YUM!…. KIDDING KIDDING…I’m kidding, but seriously, maybe some frozen yogurt! HAHA. 😉

 

So you know the saying, when it rain it pours…. well it literally poured on my computer. I spilt water on my computer the other day I just recently got my computer back. I killed the mother board. But I told my husband, it could have been soda.

If it had been two months ago, then that is what it would have been, soda…. but now it’s water. I’m staying positive. I’m sure soda would have done a lot more damage than the water did.

So my plans to work out was canceled due to a nasty bug!  So I stayed in bed most of the weekend.Today I am feeling so much better and ready to hit the gym after work!

I did have a little slip this weekend…. drank a soda! Now that is my weakness! SODA!! I love the fizz! It is like chips with me, you can’t just have one!

HOWEVER!!!!

I did try to be good. I had husband get me a coke ZERO. Now before I couldn’t drink the coke zero. It tasted nasty. Now that I haven’t been drinking to “real” stuff any a while, it was delicious. I also had him only pick me up one 20 oz…. sometimesI would sip on a liter coke all day long.

So, although I was BAD by drinking a soda, I tried to make sure it wasn’t as bad a the real deal. AND after I finished the Coke Zero, it was nothing but water afterward!

Monday before I left the gym I decided to weigh myself. I do not have a scale at home (ha! That might be the 1 problem I have, not keeping up with weight… scales have NEVER been a friend to me!)  I was shocked to see that I had lost 6 pounds. My first reaction was, “Great! I’ve broken it!?!” So I got off and walked away, but then I decided to try again. I got on and the scale read the same thing as before. I got off and got on again… the same number. I was so happy! This was hard work paying off. I haven’t taken a magic pill. This has been because, as Brian would say, I’ve made my fat cry… aka SWEAT! haha!

New things I’m doing:

One thing I have tried doing at home, I eat from my daughter’s spoons. Instead of my usual “shovel”, I started using her little spoons. I was taking smaller bits, and I was eating less.

One thing I have tried doing at home, I eat from my daughter’s spoons. Instead of my usual “shovel”, I started using her little spoons. I was taking smaller bits, and I was eating less.