Salsa anyone?

Went to the gym last night to do some "Latin Imact Aerobics", which is pretty much a latin dance class. I was watching the class from my tredmill last week and thought "I can move my bootie like that, I'm so going to that class next week". So Tawnya and I headed in, ready to dance. The 1st 15 min. were great, blood pumping, latin music bumping, and bootie shakin' good times. The next 15 min. were getting a bit tougher so I was glad for a little break. I came back from my drink of water break and the next song was just pointless. No matter how I tried to move my limbs just flopped around. I looked like a fish out of water. Not to mention I was overdoing it so my face looked like a tomato. Yes, I was quite a sight. So 35 min. in I was done. However, I'm not DONE, maybe next time I'll make it 40 min!
Viva la bootie shaking!

Greetings fellow bloggers

First, I must apologize to all veteran bloggers. I am a bit behind in this whole realm and are therefore not very versed in blog etiquette and such. So if I do something lame, kindly let me know.

Since the main focus of this blog is to talk about my journey of weight loss I will start there. I have been heavy all of my life. I wasn't a huge kid, but I was never tiny, and as I grew I grew out as much as up. High school got worse, and by the time I was an "adult" (at the ripe old age of 18) I believe I was hovering around a size 22. There were 2 times I lost weight. Once when I live and worked with friend over a summer and that was because we couldn't afford food AND rent so I just couldn't eat. The second time was when I went on a very strict, somewhat complex, diet that worked but was completely unpractical to keep using through my life. I had lost 80 lbs. at that point but eventually gained most of it back by the time I was through with college. So here I am, as of today, at 234.8 lbs. I've been on Weight Watchers for 5 weeks and am down 8 lbs. Honestly, I was hoping to be a little farther along at this point but I'm not going to let that discourage me. I am already learning a lot more about food, but also a lot more about myself. Like, why I eat things, and when I'm actually hungry verses when my stomach feels "empty" but it's really not. The other day I ate more than I should have and felt too full, and it bothered me. I haven't ever really paid attention to "too full" until now. But in the last 5 weeks I've been eating until I'm done, not until I'm stuffed.

I will also add at this point that I'm doing hypnotherapy along with the WW program. So far I have good things to say about that as well. I have noticed some changes in behavior and changes in my way of thinking. I go for my next session next week and I'm looking forward to it.

I will close with one of the goals I have for my weight loss. I have included a photo of a dress I will soon wear and look smokin' hot in.