DANCING QUEEN
One of my all time favorite songs and a big reason getting this weight off is a challenge, but one I plan on defeating! For over five years, both daughters competed in Irish dance, this year our oldest hung up her softshoes to focus on her writing and helping me train the horses. The youngest has stuck with it and is going for the upper levels so that means more practices, dedication, events, etc. We travel about 8x a year to competitions, 2-3x a week to her classes (about 2 hours away), and around St. Pat's Day, the list grows long...if I only danced as much as she did, this weight would have been off years ago. I am hoping when I get within 20 pounds of goal, I'll put on my own softshoes and try the adult classes, such a great form of exercise, but tough on the knees so until I get some weight off...it'll be low impact
There is a 75 year old dancer at her school that inspires the who out of me! She's just amazing! However, I am just not great with travel food. I have three travel events happening between now and the cruise...my goal is to stick hard and fast to my eating plan in spite of it. There are options to eating on the road that are healthy, and most hotels have treadmills..so I know it 'can' be done, but my history has been poor eating at these events.
I still have not weighed...it's a mind game. Once I am securely below 200 I know I'll weigh weekly but until I reclaim that I just can't go there. I have made good eating choices about 80% of my days the past 2 weeks...and for sure stayed under 2000 calories on the bad days...but I know to lose consistently, I can't have fried chicken fingers even if it's on a salad...need to stick to grilled or broiled. I have managed a minimum of 5 hours of workouts in the past two weeks, so that is a good trend! I did a 2 hour hike on Saturday up a mountain, (well, it's called a mountain, but probably only gained 800' in the climb), okay looked it up and it says the elevation is 1,495 feet...so maybe I climbed 1200 feet...the trail only went to about 200 feet from the top, and I being the 'adventuring' mind thought it would be cool to go off trail to reach the summit...I did that for about 150 feet and it was so steep I could not go further, so passed my phone to the dancer and let her legs carry it up to get pictures
Going down was harder! Lots of sitting/sliding on rocks and holding onto trees! But I definitely got a workout!
Still no room assignment, I check weekly, I also have caved and checked GT rates weekly. Had we been able to go on the Magic like we thought before son's rowing schedule hiccupped, the total cost for OGT would have been 5k. No IGT yet for May cruises but VGT for the first three, none for the 16th yet. I know we did the right thing by not booking GT this go round, but still can't stop checking!
The highlight of this month was dancing daughter performing on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry! All that hard work really inspires when they achieve experiences like these. Of course, it was for their St. Patrick's day performance.
I will be trying to dance some of these lingering pounds off these next 8 weeks!!