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Number 26 Pilates routine completed. I also did cardio workouts six times last week. I've done two this week already. I have found that I am craving more water (now that I've cut out soda again. Yes, I relapsed.) and also fresh fruits and vegetables. I get really bad with soda where I'm thirsty and I drink that, but then I feel bloated and then I crash while never truly quenching my thirst. With water I sometimes feel engorged in my stomach I drink so much at one time but that subsides after a little while and I actually feel better. I don't have the same problems with coffee...so I'm sticking to coffee.

Public Enemy Nos. 6,7,8, and 9.....

Yech!!!!! Max The Cat caught 6 and 7. We bought some glue traps and caught 8. I guess Max The Cat must have also caught number 9, and Dirty just stepped on that one under the computer desk. BLEEEEECCCCCCHHHHHHH!!!!!! We bought poison so that they would just die in the walls but Dirty is too worried about using it with the pets and kids. I say we cram that stuff in all of the holes we think they are coming out of and be a little more proactive. BLLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Note to Self...

Would you quit doing that belly dance routine in your socks on the carpet?!?!? You're wearing holes into the bottom of your socks and there are MANY other things that you need, clothing-wise, instead of buying new socks. That and the fact that it can't possibly be that attractive to belly dance in your socks anyway. SO KNOCK IT OFF ALREADY!!!

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Pilates routine number 25 completed today. I've also proudly finished four days in a row of cardio for at least 30 minutes. Nice. While doing the belly dancing routine with no pants on looking in the mirror I noticed that I am getting definition in my leg muscles (quadriceps and glutes to be exact). I was also admiring my shoulders and triceps while doing mat Pilates.

So while I'm not losing any weight I still feel like I'm looking better. I'm trying to be at peace with the fact that I won't get to a size 4 in as quickly as 30 Pilates sessions. And really it's taken me about a year to get to the size I am now. There was some time after gaining weight of just being where I wasn't feeling very healthy but was okay with just being.

I like that after cardio I feel like I have more energy throughout the day. For instance, I got home after Tae Kwon Do and swept the kitchen, cleaned the bathroom, and vacuumed the whole house. And while I feel physically tired I still feel more energized than before getting back into shape. I think I'm sleeping better and wake up ready to go. And cardio is something that I said I obviously needed and I'm glad that I'm finding ways, that I enjoy, to incorporate them into my exercise routine.

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Number 24 Pilates routine completed. I also walked yesterday, extremely briskly, with KL. She's not that much taller than me, and I don't think her legs are that much longer than mine, but man alive I was huffing and puffing and sweating profusely. She chatted and I don't think she sweat at all. Now the sweating thing could just be me because I've found that I am a pretty sweaty person, but I do remember her telling me that she is pretty sweaty also in a previous conversation.

Today, I also completed an intermediate belly dancing dvd. I started it while Marcus was at preschool, but then lost my focus. I needed to put a letter in the mail and the mailbox that I was thinking about is across the street from a coffee shop. I also had a card completey punched which gave me a free coffee at said coffee shop. So I quit because I "decided" that it was "too hard" and that I should try a beginners video (which I would still like to do). But this afternoon I decided to give it another go and finished it. It was a really good cardio workout and different than the same old same old Pilates/Yoga/Dance dvds that I have been doing. That made my hips sore in all the right places. :D Plus I love dancing as a workout...even if my tummy is not toned like the girls in the video and I jiggle a whole lot more than any of them. It's belly dancing so you are going to jiggle a little even if you are in great shape like Rania who leads the video. I definitely need to perfect the moves though. I had trouble getting into position for each set which threw me off. But it was my first go at the belly dancing and I think I did pretty well. I think I'll try to renew it through the library for as long as they'll let me.

Public Enemy No. 5

Mouse number 5 was found after Dirty was "smelling" something which he thought would end with us finding a mouse carcass in one of my shoes. After an extensive hunt and me looking in every place possible in my stuff he found Public Enemy No. 5 in one of his shoes. This one was pretty gross. The two mice that I found I found pretty quickly but this one was bloated and obviously starting to smell. Max The Cat must have had the mouse under siege in Dirty's shoe. The mouse may have already been tortured and then found the quiet place to die. I don't think that Max The Cat would have waited it out long enough if it was an able-bodied healthy mouse. I am also apparently hard of smelling when it comes to decomposing mouse bodies because I couldn't smell it until I was right up next to it. YUCK!!!!!

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Number 22 and 23 completed last Friday and Today. I was a little upset when I talked with my friend, JL, and she said her clothes are fitting better and that her appetite has been suppressed some. So it's now Thursday, almost a week since I worked out last, and I still feel strong when I do it. My clothes are fitting ehhh. I've been eating like crap. I haven't been drinking enough water. My kidneys are sore today after two days of drinking soda which I have not been drinking for quite some time. I've been trying to drink more water today. I've really just had NO energy for the last week. I guess it's because of the no working out. I could blame it on hormones but I did that last weekend and it shouldn't be off that long...should it? Oh and I'm trying to remember that JL is going three or four times a week for 90 minutes at a time. I'm only doing 30-60 minutes depending on which workout I do. And she's in a really hot room and sweating that whole time as well. I'm guessing that that kind of work out would really detoxify your body since you drink so much water and sweat out all those toxins. Also it's yoga and there are a lot of positions that help your organs expel those toxins. If I had two things I could do the same thing she's doing: 1.) time- if I have to leave the house without the boys it won't happen 2.) money- I don't have $17 a class to spend on workouts. Enough of my pity party. I have to go to the bus stop.