Project Hot Mom - Take 2
When we last left Project Hot Mom, I was being tempted on a daily basis by free food at work. In my defense, though I happily (and guiltily) ate the food, I did make a point to walk (briskly of course) 45 minutes every day plus a 30 minute stroll with Alex every evening. I even started doing a 20 minute Yoga routine every day last week. I haven't lost a pound. No surprise really given that I was still eating like I normally did. So, this weekend, I took stock. I stripped to my birthday suit and took a good hard look at myself in the bathroom mirror. That strange sound you heard on Saturday? Yea that was the scream of a woman looking closely for the first time at her naked body echoing off the Wasatch Mountains. I realized that even though I'd been saying for months now that I just don't care about loosing weight, it's not really true. I'm uncomfortable in my body now. Literally uncomfortable. I see myself in the mirror doing my Yoga DVD and I'm just a pink tutu away from being a hippo from Fantasia.
So, today, I decided to take some drastic steps. Things I didn't want to do. Things that will hopefully transform me into the super hot babe I know that I am inside. I went back on the South Beach Diet and I joined Curves.
Joining Curves was a very hard decision for me. It's not a traditional gym at all. It's a gym specifically for women who want to loose weight. It's an easy 30 minute workout consisting of jogging in place and using hydrolic resistance machines. You get weighed and meausred monthly, and they even have an eating program which I declined to sign up for because I've been successful on my own doing South Beach before (and their program is similar). I've hesitated joining Curves because I'd always wanted to go to a regular gym, work out on the cardio machines, do some weight training, attend a spinning or step class, just like all the other twenty-somethings that go there. But right now, the thought of stepping foot inside a traditional club with all the sweaty, tan, hard bodied gym rats, I'd be way too self conscious to really get a decent workout. I'd worry that I'm sweating to much, or breathing to hard, or my butt was jiggling too wildly as I stair-step my way to fitness. At least at Curves, I can go on my lunch hour, get a good workout in, and I won't feel like anyone there is judging me negatively. Everyone there looks basically like me. Some bigger, some smaller, some older, but really, just regular women who are trying to feel a little bit better about themselves.
Anyhow, I'm pretty excited about it. Today is the second day of phase one on South Beach and I've been a very good girl so far. I've even got John on the diet and he should help me stay on track. I'm getting weighed and measured at Curves tomorrow, and though it might make me cry, it will most certainly motivate me!
So, today, I decided to take some drastic steps. Things I didn't want to do. Things that will hopefully transform me into the super hot babe I know that I am inside. I went back on the South Beach Diet and I joined Curves.
Joining Curves was a very hard decision for me. It's not a traditional gym at all. It's a gym specifically for women who want to loose weight. It's an easy 30 minute workout consisting of jogging in place and using hydrolic resistance machines. You get weighed and meausred monthly, and they even have an eating program which I declined to sign up for because I've been successful on my own doing South Beach before (and their program is similar). I've hesitated joining Curves because I'd always wanted to go to a regular gym, work out on the cardio machines, do some weight training, attend a spinning or step class, just like all the other twenty-somethings that go there. But right now, the thought of stepping foot inside a traditional club with all the sweaty, tan, hard bodied gym rats, I'd be way too self conscious to really get a decent workout. I'd worry that I'm sweating to much, or breathing to hard, or my butt was jiggling too wildly as I stair-step my way to fitness. At least at Curves, I can go on my lunch hour, get a good workout in, and I won't feel like anyone there is judging me negatively. Everyone there looks basically like me. Some bigger, some smaller, some older, but really, just regular women who are trying to feel a little bit better about themselves.
Anyhow, I'm pretty excited about it. Today is the second day of phase one on South Beach and I've been a very good girl so far. I've even got John on the diet and he should help me stay on track. I'm getting weighed and measured at Curves tomorrow, and though it might make me cry, it will most certainly motivate me!
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