That was fast...
I have never tried any sort of fitness class in my life before and have always been curious about it. But the one thing that always pushed me away was the whole "keeping up" with everyone routine. I hate the thought of looking like an idiot in front of people, so I never did get involve. But today, I braved it out and tried it.
I tried the Body Flow class in my gym for an added $3.00 a week on top of my membership, not bad. Body Flow is basically yoga and pilates put together. I was so nervous, but after a few minutes I started to relax and just went with it. The class was 60 minutes long and half way through I was sweating. And to my surprise, I really really enjoyed it! It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. I'm still rusty at some of the moves, but I know I'll master that thing soon enough. It was actually fun! I mean, I didn't talk to anybody there, but listening to the calming music and doing the stretches with the inhaling/exhaling routine, I felt so relieved and relaxed. I can't wait for my next class! I'm so happy I liked it because then I won't have to give up this whole going to the gym thing after all.
I'm going to buy my own yoga mats next week. Funny thing happened; before the class started everyone started laying out their mats on the floor. I didn't know that you could bring your own mats (again, keep in mind that I've never done ANY fitness classes before) and so I thought I wouldn't be able to join because I didn't have my own. But then I saw 2 girls go to the corner of the floor and grabbed some mats out of a box, so I followed and grabbed some, too. I'm a germaphobe so I whipped out my mini Lysol disinfecting spray out of my gym bag and started spraying the mats to no end. Hey, I don't want another persons pit sweat all over my back when I'm doing my routine on that thing! That's gross! But apparently, they've never seen anyone spray the mats before so the whole class was just staring at me like I was some mad woman. Geeze.
Anyway, I'm going to brave this one out again and post a picture of my chubby self (I'm not going to use the word fat anymore because some of you got mad at me!) Chei took the this photo before I left for the gym. She has this thing with the word "sexy". I'm not sure where she heard it (most likely tv), but she's been calling everything and EVERYONE sexy. So when I changed into my gym attire she said, "Mommy sexy! You look so very smooth!" Hahah! I don't know what she meant by that last part, but I'm guessing she thought that the lycra fabric of my top and pants were smooth? Who knows. Yay, my daughter thinks I'm sexy! But then again, she thinks our house is sexy, too =/
So as you can see, I'm bottom-heavy. I hate the pudge around my waist! My butt is huge and jiggly, need to get those two toned up a bit. I'd like to look back at this photo a few months from now and see improvement. I'm 5 ft. 1 inch tall and erm, 115 lbs. I'd like to be 105 lbs. Oh and, Dora the Explorer says Hello! Hahahaha!
And the Indoor option on my Nikon P60 blurs out imperfections on the skin, but a little too much that is. Ah well, at least my skin looks smooth =p