Update on yesterday

Today we did the 3-mile version of yesterday's dvd and loved it. The colors are nice, the clothes fit better, the icky music is shorter. We had a great workout!

Avoid this DVD if you like modesty

I love Leslie Sansone, but I am not wild about "Walk Away the Pounds Express", the one with the stretchie, at least the two-miler. All the women are in tank tops with spaghetti straps. It looks nice on Leslie, but the bigger women are showing various amounts of cleavage. It wouldn't be so bad, but you know where it goes when women sweat? Gross to actually see it! I was surprised at this one, because usually their exercise clothes are so cute and mostly modest.

Also, this one is very vibrant pink, with pink lighting, a visual assault. The music isn't very good at the beginning, sort of a repetitive electro-technical tune that neither of us cared for.

What I Hate About Being Fat--toilet stalls!

At work the toilet stalls are really narrow. I hate it when I sit down and my thighs hit the toilet paper dispenser and the Kotex disposal bin. Yuk...besides the germ factor, it is cold metal!

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Sauce for the goose.

You know that old saying, "What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander?" What in the world does it mean?

Maybe it means that when Anthony works out with Lynn, he also goes down a pants size, and his doctor says he is healthy, though his blood test results haven't come back yet. I forgot to ask how much he weighs.

He does have some foot trouble, so guess what the doctor prescribed? Exercises! Which he is supposed to do in bed every morning. I begged him to roll out on the floor first!

The royal "we"

At the doctor's office a few weeks ago, the nurse used the royal "we" that they sometimes do. She said, "okay, now we're going to step up on the scale." I couldn't resist--I said, "Oh, we are? Do we get to average our weight?" She laughed and said, "Okay, YOU are going to step on the scale now." Oh darn, I think I would rather have the average!

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Six Week Checkup

Six weeks, halfway through the initial twelve week program.
Weight 189
Weight lost: 7 pounds. (11% of goal)
Total inches lost: 9.25 (5 different measurements) (25% of goal)
Size: down from 18 pants to 16. (25% of goal)

I can see that the toning up is having as much or more effect than the weight loss. I am looking and feeling better even though the scales don't reflect as much difference.

What I Hate About Being Fat--I need a makeover!

An attitude makeover, that is. One thing I hate about being fat is that it's hard to care about clothes or makeup when all I can see in the mirror is how fat I look. I see overweight women who really make the most of their assets, even wearing funky shoes and spiky heels, but most of us are like me. Just looking rundown and dumpy. Probably because we feel that way. Of course, there are skinny women who look that way too. It is probably a reflection of low self-esteem.

I've never worn much makeup anyway, but I really need a new haircut and a better lipcolor. Sigh.