I'm Dancing!

It's been 5 weeks since this blog, but until now I haven't done much progress on my resolution for a healthy  lifestyle.  I've made a lot of changes to my eating habits--mostly reducing the amount of food I take, sometimes starving myself and so far, it has been making me miserable!

You see, I love food!  I love to cook and I love to eat!  Food is my comfort.  Food makes me happy and so eating less is, to me, is a little more than just sacrifice.  It would be torment!

So instead of starving myself, I decided to do a lot more exercise.  As one of my colleagues said, "it's not about eating less, it's about doing more!"  I bet he's right!

Honestly though, I don't enjoy the usual forms of exercise.  I hate running!  I don't like going to the gym.  I sometimes do Pilates at home, but only when I really force myself to do it.  Hence, the word "sometimes".

I love sports but it's probably the hardest to commit to.  And with sports, you often have to engage other people.  So I thought...dancing!  I love dancing and this is probably the only form of exercise that I can commit myself into because I know I will enjoy doing it.

So I started dancing this weekend.  I enrolled myself to a few dancing classes--Brazilian Samba on Tuesdays, Salsa on Saturdays, Zumba and Latin Aerobics on Sundays.  You can tell I love Latin dances--they're my favorite!

Salsa was great yesterday and so was Zumba today.  But so far, I liked Latin Aerobics the most--it's like a combination of Zumba and Yoga.  There's a lot of stretching and walking involved, and tons of hip action.

I hope I can follow through with this.  I think I can commit myself to something I enjoy doing.  And hopefully, someday, I can shed all those unwanted pounds and really get myself back into shape!

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Photo:  Not a dancing shoes--just one of my favorite pairs.