Zumba!!

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Little Man is almost 4 months old now, and I have been trying to motivate myself to get those extra pounds off. I only have about 6 of the 27lbs of baby weight left, but I gained about 30 lbs before I got pregnant since the wedding almost 3 years ago. The combination of not having to fit into a dress, not trying to impress anyone (I already got my man hehe), and my birth control (Mirena), I was packing on about 10 lbs a year.
HORRIBLE.... I know I should have been more diligent in keeping them at bay, or at least tried to do something about it before. I kept seeing the scale go up, but always by a pound or two at a time, I sort of just woke up one day and realized that WOW it was almost 30 lbs total.

So now I am on a mission to get happy with myself. That scale is NOT my friend, and I intend on using it as a tool for my weight loss journey, but not the end-all-be-all of my success. I refuse to let the numbers define me anymore!

I was recently introduced to Zumba by a long time friend of mine, and I am in LOVE!!!
I am not the type of person to be self motivated when it comes to working out-as you can tell by my 30 lbs in 3 years. I am competitive however, and being in a class full of other women, motivates me to finish strong and persevere. I don't enjoy running (I always say I only run if something is chasing me), I hate lifting weights, I just feel like a weakling, and I have a bad knee and ankle, and they are on different legs. So Zumba has been my answer.

If you have never been to a Zumba class I highly recommend it. If you enjoy dancing, sweating and looking like a fool (see picture below). then you will have fun. The best part of Zumba is that everyone in the class is different. There are always some Latin Ladies that know how to shake their thing, and I pretend that I look like that as well, but there are also ladies in there who look like a flopping fish (myself included). Either way, you are bound to have fun, and they say that you burn 1000 calories in 1 hour of Zumba. How awesome is that?

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So for now on here is my new motto:

I hope to keep you all updated on my journey, I by no means am an expert. I am going in this blind, trying to get to my end goal. My goal being, to be happy with the body God gave me, and to take care of it. Because I am a DAUGHTER OF THE KING, and I trying to remember to treat myself as the princess that I am.