tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89370526005752089842026-02-02T23:59:14.026-08:00An exploration of a life out of control and the struggle to reign it all back in.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01824816663639735416noreply@blogger.comBlogger168125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937052600575208984.post-74829833750527720532013-07-03T07:39:00.000-07:002013-07-03T07:39:20.611-07:00

So, blogger has been giving me some issues as of late and I am fnially getting around to letting everyone know - I have relocated my little piece of the internet over to http://simplifyingsam.wordpress.com/ Come join me at my new home?

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Last week, Mrs. Fatass and I got together and put a call out to our friends and our Zumba Family to get our brains working on our habits outside of the gym. So how did I do in week one? Not too shabby. Hit my water everyday - and I'd been very slack on that! And ok on eating what I planned. Especially bad on the weekends but now I know where I'm headed and can work on sticking to it! How about

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Well, rejoice! My knee is feeling much better after resting it Thursday - Sunday.  I went back to teaching last night and took it easy enough that I wasn't scared I'd reinjure it right off the bat. Also, it was fun to dial back the intensity and dial up and playing with the class. However, the saga of my annoyed knee goes on.  It's still a little tender and feels tight when I stretch.

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Okay, really. This isn't fair anymore. I start to get results and everything goes wonky. This weekend I'm going to do some picture comparisons and a post on how my body is changing but for the moment the only thing I have to say is - Why is it that I can be as careful as I can be and still wind up injuring myself ... And not know how I did it. So, lets go back to Wednesday before last. Class

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Today I had an interesting conversation with a high school student I'm mentoring for her senior project.  Not so much for the conversation itself (which was lovely! She's such a sweetie!) but for what I learned about myself. She was asking me a lot of background questions, stuff about how I got in to Zumba, what I love about it and what I suggested as ways to make her project interesting

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This week is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. I drafted three different posts to talk about how important it is that we, as a culture, see the importance of treatment for eating disorders but nothing came out the way I wanted it to. The fact is, I've dealt with disordered eating my entire life.  My mother likes to tell people that, even as a very young child, I would ask for

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I'm sick. AGAIN.  I swear people must think I go around licking door knobs and dirty tissues with the way I am constantly catching one bug or another. I'm not.  I swear. I eat a good diet. I exercise. I wash my hands. I don't share food willy nilly.  I drink my water. I take my vitamins.  I do all the good things! I just can't seem to stay healthy. It's driving me insane.

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Last year, for Lent, I gave up bread products. I am doing it again this year with an addition - pasta. But, I am nothing if not an over analyzer and after issues with defining bread last year, I decided to be very specific this year. So. For the next 40 days and 40 nights I will not be eating: Sandwich or sub bread Rolls Biscuits Garlic bread or bread sticks Crackers Spaghetti or any form of

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First, let me say thank you to everyone who has reached out to me since my last post with words of caring, compassion and offers of ears and shoulders if they are needed. Every single well wish and offer has reminded me that no matter how alone I feel ... I am loved and I am part of something special. Two something's, actually - the Zumba community and the FitBloggin community. Much love to

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I'm depressed.  It's not all "woah is me" and the "world is ending" depression but I am dealing with a bad round of depression. Nothing in my life is particularly bad right now.  I just had an amazing weekend with my Trio Fitness family.  Work is mostly good minus some stress about one working relationship. I'm seeing progress in my strength and muscle tone even if my

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The last 14 days have been full of wild and crazy things. Let's talk Zumba - on the 12th Trio Fitness did an AWESOME Commit to Fit master class. 90 minutes of Zumba to commit to health and wellness in 2013.  We had instructors come in from around town and everyone got to show off their moves.  It was so great to watch other instructors and learn from their skills! It was a great

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2013 is off to a whirlwind start for me! In 5 days I've run/walked a 5k and taught 9 classes - 7 Zumba classes, 1 Sentao and 1 TurboKick class! My very first TurboKick class! How crazy is that!? Three of those were today, in fact. I started out with an hour of TurboKick, then did an hour of Zumba with Sarah, and ended with an hour of low impact option Zumba at the YMCA. Long morning, but it was

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So, tomorrow is it... the last day of 2012.  I get up, go to work, spend the evening with friends and wake up in a new year. I may try to stay up and ring in the new year but it would be difficult... I have a 5k to run in the morning.  At 9am.  And it's an hour away. Oof. Oh well. Today I went grocery shopping and restocked on all the healthy stuff I need.  Then I made a

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In order to simplify my life in 2013 I have been looking at ways to ensure I don't do silly things like double book myself or schedule classes that overlap by 5 minutes anymore.  Enter - iPlan on my iPad and iPhone. I looked at a number of different applications on the iPad and iPhone to keep my schedule straight.  I hate just using my Google or Apple basic calendar because they do

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My mom, brother, and niece and nephews sent me the coolest Christmas present.  A Nike Fuel Band. You see, a year or so ago when I was looking at various tools for tracking activity I glanced at the Fuel Band but ultimately decided on the BodyBugg (which I love!).  Still, I liked the social aspect of being able to compare and go head to head against people on the Fuel Band and I LOVED

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Needless to say, while I was on vacation and newly off my soft food diet I ate a LOT of food.  Some of it was just stuff I missed while I wasn't allowed to eat it - like a bagel! BUT some of it was stuff I just can't find/get here at home. Let's start with lunch on day one in DC. Ben's Chili Bowl.  Located a little off the beaten path in DC this place was SO WORTH the extra

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This past week was my sabbatical week from work.  5 days.  No work.  Ahhhhhh.  Of course, that meant the week before I was working twice as hard to be ready for leaving everything at the office for the week.  I did it though.  I left the office on Friday the 7th and shook it off and went about doing stuff that wasn't work related. My vacation started off with a day

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Sorry for going dark for so long there.  Real life snuck up and bit me on the bum! THEN I went on an adventure and now I'm starting to get my life back on track so that I can get through the end of 2012 without too much drama. So, when last we spoke - I was going on my soft food diet to try to heal up the swelling in my jaw from TMJ.  That went as well as can be expected.  I spent

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Today I went on a bit of a cooking expedition.  And OW my hands hurt. Since I'm on this soft food diet, I decided to make some hearty, comforting, soups to get me through the next week and a half.  Here's what I made - Kristen's Potato Leek Soup - This is OMG good.  Hearty, warm, creamy and very easy to follow instructions.  This made about 6 cups of soup.  I can't wait

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So NHBPM draws to a close. My recap for the month - this was harder than expected. I found myself feeling like a broken record but its helped to solidify many of my thoughts and convictions about my thyroid, my PCOS, my weight and my overall health. It also got me thinking about why I started blogging in the first place. Tomorrow I refocus on my initial plan - simplification. Finances.

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If I could accomplish anything in 2013 it would be ...Man, talk about a loaded prompt. My goals and aspirations are many but if I had to pick one thing I want to accomplish in 2013 it would be getting under 200 pounds.Yes, it's an arbitrary number but losing 70+ pounds in a year would be huge for me. I lose weight so slowly and to average 6 pounds a month would be an incredible success for me

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A. I gained 3.8 pounds over Thanksgiving.  This is unacceptable and also shocking as I really didn't eat that poorly.  Super back on plan today 100 oz of water, under WW points and I'm going to b using GoMeals today to see my carb/protein/fat split.  I may take the time to go back and input the last week of data to see if maybe my fat or carbs were just seriously out of whack. &

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That there are times I don't know what to say. I bashed my head in yesterday over the prompts and nada. Oh well. Free pass two. Things you may not know about me ... 1. I have a horrible fear of sand that I basically conquered this past year. 2. I gag if I can feel the texture of mushrooms. I hate them! Stupid textures. 3. Eggs are ditto above. It kills me because I know eggs are good for me

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So, yesterday will be one of my get out of posting free cards. Not because I didn't want to post or I was too busy but because I hurt my calf, took a muscle relaxer and human sentences were not possible. Sorry, folks.Today's prompt - how have your goals evolved/changed is an interesting one.I think the biggest change is that my goals have become more concrete and less about numbers and more about

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Zoom in on my closet in the bedroom. Small, cramped, a white three drawer dresser in the bottom. The clothes on the hangers fall in to four categories.1. Work appropriate pants. Black or khaki colored. 2. Work appropriate blouses and sweaters. Jewel tones - mostly green or purple. Also, a lot of black.3. Work appropriate or fancier dresses. Also jewel toned or black. Rarely worn.4. A multi tiered

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