Y'all.

I had my first Zumba class last night. I burned over 700 calories in an hour, and I felt fantastic all day today. And the best part was it absolutely did not feel like exercise. It was just dancing; one woman even had a belly-dancing jingly thingees belt on, and the music was great. I am so sticking to this.

Unfortunately, it's only Monday and Wednesday, so I have to find something else the rest of the week. I have a salsa dancing DVD that doesn't even compare, and a Tai Chi one that I really enjoy but doesn't feel very vigorous. I need to move the treadmill back inside, but with the xmas tree and the big roll of carpet we don't have much space in the living room. I'll figure it out!

But seriously, the point of the post: ZUMBA FUN. GO NOW.

Breakfast: toast with peanut butter
Lunch: turkey & muenster sandwich
Dinner: kung pao and pot stickers

Exercise: 30 crunches

Friday

Breakfast: whole-grain cereal
Lunch: Veggie mini-pizza
Dinner: Baked fish, breaded tomatoes, and butter beans
Exercise: Jogged around the block


Saturday

Breakfast: whole-grain cereal
Lunch: Meatloaf at Cracker Barrel
Dinner: probably nothing. Lunch was late
Snack: Italian cream soda at bookstore

Exercise: Carrying Mom's purchases; probably 2 miles of walking

Breakfast: whole grain cereal
Lunch: 3 steak tips, salad
Dinner: 3 leftover steak tips, salad, red beans & rice

Exercise: jogged around the block, 25 crunches


Now am trying to convince myself that I'd rather have a banana than chili-cheese nachos.


[eta] FTW! I had the banana. and the nachos

Breakfast: apple
Lunch: Hormel 90-second roast beef with carrots & potatoes (270 cal)
Dinner: leftover from last night + salad with a really wonderfully painful amount of garlic
Snack: strawberry fruit freeze

Exercise: 25 crunches, parking 8 blocks off campus and hauling ass across hell's half-acre


I took a LeanLookRx capsule, and now I want to eat absolutely everything except, apparently, anything we have in the house. Maybe its trick is that it makes cravings completely unsatisfiable?

Late breakfast/early lunch: bacon & eggs
Dinner: split eggplant parmigiana and this pasta with chicken, sausage, and mushrooms with mom. And tiramisu.

Exercise: 25 crunches

Breakfast: Banana
Lunch: Hormel 90-second swedish meatball thing (350 cal)
Dinner: Grilled chicken and lemongrass rice

Breakfast: eggs, bacon & toast
Lunch/Dinner: red beans & rice, homemade quesadilla with pepper cheese, beef, and ancho chilis

Exercise: Yardwork

Breakfast: Cottage Cheese
Lunch: shared a grilled salmon and black bean plate, and an order of southwestern eggrolls with Mom
Dinner: Mushroom fries

Breakfast: apple
Lunch: deli sandwich (slightly soggy)
Dinner: Mongolian chicken

Breakfast: 1 peanut butter cookie. Hey, the kitchen has new grout and I couldn't get to the cottage cheese
Lunch: BLT and about 3 meatballs. food party at work
Dinner: cobb salad

Exercise: I kind of forgot about that part

started good, and then went all to shit. decent amount of exercise, but we went to a buffet over my suggestion not to.

Breakfast: none
Lunch: Ham and cheese sandwich
Dinner: Liver cheese sandwich, salad


Exercise: Mixing & pouring concrete

Breakfast: eggs and toast with raspberry preserves
Lunch: Grilled ham & cheese sandwich, handful of chips
Dinner: Pork fritter, baked potatoes in Italian dressing, salad
Snack: 1/2 cup ice cream

Exercise: Pulling up tile, framing a sidewalk, and all associated activities

Saturday:

Breakfast: 1/2 cup cottage cheese
Lunch: Chicken quesadilla
Snack: Chips & salsa, 2 oreos
Dinner: Chef salad
Exercise: Cleaning everything

Breakfast: 1/2 cup cottage cheese
Lunch: 1 small glucerna
Dinner: 2 cups beef stir-fry, 5 (!) potstickers

Exercise: ...vacuuming and mowing the lawn?

Alright, I'll crack the metaphorical champagne glass here and get the ball rolling. Basically we're using this thing however we feel fit, really. Food diary, exercise diary, tips, venting, motivational porn. Whatever. Feel free to lock your posts or leave them open and, if you want to make things really easy and handy, feel free to tag your post however you choose. Either as 'your name' and 'food' and 'exercise' and 'progress' or whatever, man. So easy.

If I feel especially motivated tonight, I may fiddle around with the layout and see if I can do a header or whatnot. I've never done so with a free community before and considering I'm not sure how often I'll actually LOOK at the community, I may not. But Frog tempted me with the idea of Kate Winslet so... I may succumb.

So... yeah. Have at!