Kickboxing!

I went to kickboxing class this morning!  I was not sure if I was going to make it all the way through - at one point I felt like I was going to pass out or puke like the people on the biggest loser do.   Luckily I did neither.  I have to say, Joan the instructer, must be nothing but muscle.  She kicked my butt today, along with everyone else in the class.  I feel so much better now.  I really missed working out - it is amazing how once you incorporate exercise into your routine, you miss it when you go a few days - in this case 5 days - without it.  It makes me think about all the months and years that I sat on the couch and did nothing.  I remember one contestant from the biggest loser saying 'I always said I did not have time to exercise, but I had 4 hours to watch TV' and that is totally how I was.  I just need to keep the momentum going.  In the past I may have said to myself 'I have not excercised in 5 days anyways so I might as well skip today' .  That is an attitude I am dumping!  From here on out, I am commiting to keeping motivated and staying on track.

I also ate much better the past two days (we were on vacation Mon-Wed so that was like giving me an Eat-Whatever-You-Want-Pass) and now I am back to exercising, so hopefully the scale will start moving down again.  I am trying really hard not to obsess about what the number on the scale is and more about how I feel and how clothes fit.

I do have some mixed thoughts about my weight loss to date.  Somedays I look in the mirror and think 'Damn, I Look Great!' and other times I see myself and realize that I still have a long way to go.  I suppose it doesnt help that when I do the BMI calculation it still lists me as obese (atleast I have moved out of the morbidly obese category!).   I wish I could see myself now standing next to myself at my starting weight.  That would be really cool to see the changes objectively like that.

I have a lot of work to do today, the entire family is coming over for my daughters birthday tomorrow, so I have housecleaning and food prep and some errands to run.  My plan for cleaning the house is blast the Black Eyed Peas (they have some great songs for getting pumped up - Boom Boom Pow, My Humps, Imma Be), clean to the music and put a positive spin on the drudgery of cleaning by trying to think of it as additional exercise. 
    
Tomorrow morning I will be off to kickboxing again...another ass kicking just waiting to happen since the Sunday class is all bag work.  I do okay until she starts the 20 second intervals - 20 seconds of punching, 20 seconds of laying on your back and scissoring your legs, then flipping over for 20 seconds of mountain climbers --- 4 sets of these....it is brutal (but makes you feel very powerful and strong once completed!)

Here's to 35 Down and 35 To Go!