Laughing is cardio and it prolongs your life

I often have my priorities screwed up. Blame it on having adult ADD or laziness- take your pick. I started blogging to track my weight loss back in January but kept blogging to help me help others. I got whatever was stuck up in my head or locked up in my heart out into the crazy world of cyberspace and by doing that happened to wind up helping friends, family and strangers.

So, after taking some time off and getting my priorities straight I'm back to blogging. What's on the agenda today? Something written by my very best friend a while back. It's a compilation of random thoughts and inside jokes between a group of friends. I found it while looking for a notebook to start writing in because there are times when I still find comfort in using a real pen and real paper instead of a cold emotionless computer.

Laughing is cardio and it prolongs your life. So does:

<Yoga mat toe jam on your face

Back on the weight loss wagon

After gaining back 13 of the 17 pounds I'd lost the first half of the year, I'm back on a meal plan and working out with my amazing trainer, Douglas. The meal plan he gave me this time is much more bearable and has more foods on it that I like. I still can't get him to put pizza, cookies, and Mc Donald's on there though. I'll keep trying.

Last Friday I worked out with him for the first time in about 7-8 months. He almost killed me. I did make sure, at the beginning of the workout, that he knew where the defibrillator was...just in case. I did a high intensity interval workout on the stair climber. My heart rate wasn't supposed to go over 170- um, yeah, I was a bit more out of shape than we thought when it reached 196. He almost didn't let me finish but I only had one more minute of the intense part and then I was free to cool down- or die, whichever came first.

The good news was my body would burn fat for the next 16 hours. How cool is that? So I'm headed to go jog around on the mini-trampoline for a bit before I head to the gym to have him kill me again. I only have 6 more days to look fabulously hot in my pink pirate costume. I'm not holding my breath.





I tried to order the body, too, but the shipping was too pricey.

Looking for a personal trainer in Tampa, Fl?

Thank you,
Douglas Zimmerman C.E.S.
www.BodyByDouglas.com
800.637.8113

Give a kid a camera

My kids love to walk around and take random pictures with their sister's cameras. Recently my oldest daughter's friend placed a camera in his tuba for the halftime show at his football game. It's pretty cool to see the show from the player's perspective. I thought I'd share some of the ones that made me laugh out loud. *disclaimer- this pics were taken by my kids or kids I know. They were not taken from random websites so do not belong in the Finds From the Web category.