Do What you Love. Thoughts on Exercise

Hey Divalicious ladies......I hope you all are enjoying the beginning of this beautiful new week. Unfortunately, for me, it was one of those blahhhhh days. It snowed last night about 2 inches. Everything was covered with a nice little blanket of white and it was 55 degrees inside the house when we all woke up at 7:00am. It's mornings like THIS one that make you want to crawl back into bed, pull the covers over your head and just stay there all day with the remote control, (or a good book OR just SLEEP AND SLEEP AND SLEEEEEEEP.) (Yeah, THAT would have been really nice....but NOT!!!!!!!) Simply because I don't think I would have been able to get away with it so easily. My husband would certainly have called me to the mat on the whole sleeping in thing.

As he scoots off to work this morning, he reminds me how he's , "Going out into the cold, hard world to earn a living for us...." He's SUCH a Drama Queen!!!!! I laughed as he headed out the door and reminded him of his own words as a self employed success.....He told me once..."Honey, If you do what you love every day, then it's not really considered work. It's just fun, but you get paid to do it." I don't think he found it amusing when he stepped out to 28 degree weather to go to work this morning but he DID get me thinking about exercise.

For me... exercise=WORK!!!! Yuck. But not lately because I found something I love to do. Have you ever heard of Zumba? Well....Zumba has a motto on their website (www.zumba.com) that says, "Ditch the workout. Join the Party!!!!". And this is exactly true. Zumba is like Latino Line Dancing for me. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT!!! It has completely changed my view on exercise. I'm out there on the workout room floor sweating my fanny off with the best of them and having a ball, thinking to myself, "Who would have ever thought that workout like Zumba could burn as many calories as a boring old treadmill or elliptical?" I'll take Zumba ANY DAY.

So here it is ladies, The Big Fat Truth Tip # 2. Do what you LOVE for exercise and it will never be "work" again. I promise. Remove the excuses. Find what you TRULY love and then go for it. It has been my saving grace in getting a jump start to this whole new lifestyle. I hope you can find what you love too and then JUST DO IT!! Have a beautiful day.

~Christina