Okay, ladies, I have to make an announcement here. I am now hereby offiially OFF the low-carb diet. This will be my fifth week actually working out (Can you believe it?), where I've eaten every freakin' thing in site, but my double chin has gone down, down, and down some more; my face frame and clavicle bones are kindly pertruding from underneath all that fat. I thought they were gone!! No more trick diets for me. They work as long as you have the will power to suppress cravings for illegal stuff. When you screw up, you're SCREWED. Since I've been exercising, I have eaten breads, cheese, meat, potatoes (mainly french fries), hamburgers, you name it, and I'll be doggone, ... I can see my freakin' BONE structure again. This is the first time I've done aerobics for this long a period of time. Everytime I try to work out, the weather will change somehow and have my hip cramping from arthritis where I can barely walk, and once I've recuperated from that, I can never get the motivation to start back up with the aerobics again. But I do remember feeling the pains last week when the rains came, and I STILL did my aerobics (with less intensity, of course). But, get this, I was not convinced that I sweated enough on THAT day, so I did some more the NEXT day!!! Is that unreal or what??!! I don't know where all this passion and interest and motivation is coming from, but it's here
and it's working, and I just can't believe how I've actually begun WANTING to do these aerobics everyday. It becomes fun seeing how long I can go the NEXT time around.
I plan to be lookin' GOOD when the pretty White boys come back at the end of August.
I prayed that God would give me something that WORKED, and He has. I haven't even been watching what I eat that much. I eat what I want. All I have to do is sweat the heck out of a Jane Fonda Low-Impact Aerobics tape, and I've burned some serious calories. I go for a good 35 minutes everytime (though her workout regiment (sp?) is about 60 minutes long). Shoot. I remember when I couldn't go but 20 minutes when I started the dang thing. She's ruthless.
Forgive me for the long post, but girlfriends, I have FOUND the fountain of youth!!! Seeing these results at such a rapid pace convinces me that there's more to this exercise stuff than people let on. I checked the scale last week. I'm still at 170, so I guess the muscle build-up is making me weigh more. I'm losing in inches, obviously, because I can DEFINITELY see the differences in my face and neck and chest.
For all of you who think you're struggling with your weight, but HATE trying to do those awful aerobics that are hard on the joints, I suggest Jane Fonda's Low Impact Aerobics. You'll be sweatin' like mad, but at least one foot stays on the ground at all times. Try it. I recommend it to anybody. I know I sound like a television comercial, but even if you don't want to buy it, at least rent it from a video store. You can tell it's pretty old, because everybody is dressed like Cindy Lauper.
But it's well worth it, though.
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No weapon formed against me shall prosper, for I am a child of the Most High God, Who sits upon the Throne of Grace, and rules all Heaven and Earth.
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