Well, hello Zumba!

Last night Lauren and I went to our first-ever Zumba class!  It was AMAZING!  I am so excited that I finally went to the class to experience it!  It was high-energy and a really fun atmosphere.. dancing to great music for a solid hour and DEFINITELY a good workout!  I have been dancing all of my life (started with tap/ballet/jazz when I was little then 13 years of cheerleading and the past 3 years of bellydance) so I picked up on the moves pretty quickly and danced full-out for the whole hour!  I felt SO good when I left the class and it was so nice to find something that really felt like it fit me!  I think the workout that I got last night more than made up for skipping the gym yesterday morning.. then when I got home I was still really hot and sweaty so I had absolutely no appetite - so I only had a couple of bites of my turkey meatloaf for dinner then took a shower and Nora and I went to bed!  I certainly don't advocate skipping meals but I'm not mad about saving the extra calories ;)
Lauren and I got to the gym a little late this morning (my alarm didn't go off!) so we did Friday's workout since it's shorter.. and added 20minutes on the Elliptical at the end.  I did a 20 minute "weightloss" interval program.  I read that interval training is better for fat-burning so I like to do that as much as possible!

Side note - while we were working out this morning there was a lady trainer working with 2 ladies very close to us.  These ladies (1 in particular) complained like babies the whole time!  1 was even moaning while she was working out!  This, I just don't understand.  If you're going to go to the trouble and expense of hiring a personal trainer, then obviously you WANT results - so shut the hell up!  What do you expect the trainer to do?  Compliment the weight off of you?  Ugh, drives me bananas.

Meal Plan today:
Breakfast:
1 Egg White
1/2 WW Bagel w/ natural pnut butter
Chocolate Protein Shake w/ skim milk

Snack:
LF Vanilla Yogurt w/ berries and grahams

Lunch:
Turkey sammy on slim bread w/ mustard and pickles
Organic sliced strawberries

Snack:
Pretzels

Dinner:
WW Spaghetti w/ Turkey Meatballs
Salad

One of my bosses at work shared a couple of healthy-cooking cookbooks with me so I had Branden pick out some recipes and I made copies this morning.. so we can start changing things up!
The Cookbooks were: Cook Yourself Thin from the Lifetime Show - here's a link to Amazon for the book http://www.amazon.com/Cook-Yourself-Thin-Skinny-Minutes/dp/1401341136
The other was Hungry Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World - here's a link to Amazon for this one
http://www.amazon.com/Hungry-Girl-Survival-Strategies-Guilt-Free/dp/0312377428/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1301494132&sr=8-2
These have some delicious recipes and most under 550 calories!

I spoke to a friend of mine that is a trainer at Fitworks yesterday and she may start making my workouts for me every 3 weeks or so.. with Branden's new job he's working a lot and I hate to ask him to devote the time that it takes to making these workouts for me... so hopefully I can get it taken care of!

I'm still feeling a little crappy today, I may run out and grab some Dayquil.. I have to be at 100% this weekend for Chicago! 

Mentally, I feel great.  I'm noticing my fitness level changing even more.. even just in little things like going up the stairs at work has become much less breath-taking!  We'll see how the plane goes.. I'm crossing my fingers for a comfortable flight :)

Until tomorrow.. :)