loving the day today. Day off and started out great. Practiced new Zumba Song, Good Morning, which I love and hope to add soon. Then out for a walk/jog up those hills. Pace is 15:56 minutes per mile. working to increase that and jog more than walking. No one out today to visit with so just kept moving and felt wonderful, then home to a protein shake for breakfast. Now to get the day going and some work done. Zumba tonight.

NCSF

Reregistered for the NCSF site again today. I am finally feeling confident with the work I needed to do for Curves to be able to study for my CPT again. I really do want to finish this although it has been on hold for over 2 years now. I want this certification and it would help me help the ladies at the club, plus give more credibility to what I do. I am going for it. Now with the additional staff at the club also, I do have a bit more free time so it won't be as hard to find the time.

Heavier and heavier

I love it. Just finished Chalean Extreme Burn phase 1 again and am now lifting 17 pounds for some of the lower body exercises. It is funny how much lighter 10 pounds now feels. I love the fact that I am getting so much stronger. I also love those Bowflex Select tech weights. It is funny how much health and fitness now rule my life after years of smoking, and junk food. I am so glad that my eyes are finally open and now am able to help others become healthy, fit and strong also.

March really??

It's March? Really it is. Almost the end of March and I have no idea where the past few months have gone. We held our second Annual RFL fundraiser last week and raised $3278. A bit more than last year. It went amazingly well and again we had a large chinese auction and served lunch to the public, we served 119 lunches. Picture is of our cake.

Hard to believe i have owned Curves now for over 2 years.

It is so great to be able to help women get healthy, fit and strong. One of my goals is to still finish my certification as Personal Trainer. I have put that on hold for the past two years and finished all the training I needed through Curves so now the time has come where maybe I can focus a bit on the trainer cert again. I am also now a licensed Zumba instructor, what fun that is.

New Year- New Goals

Well, I am not on sparkpeople much anymore since buying the Curves franchise in March 2010. I miss it and miss the people. I do still check in sometimes and was still logging food and exercise, However I bought a fitbit and now use that site. I really hope that sparkpeople and fitbit do manage to link together. There is some talk on it.

My goals for the new year...of course to stay on track. I have managed to lose site of that with fighting the mono and lymes. it is not gone, still very active and I have an appt with an infectious disease doctor on Thursday. I hope he can help. I have quit teaching Zumba for now but would like to restart it. I have been eating a bit more hoping that will help also. Didn't want to be cutting calories while I am fighting this disease.

Now, my new goal is to see the scale not go up at all...not even .01 pounds. Not to sure that digital is the way to go, but its what I have ..lol

If I can keep it going down or steady for now, it will be good enough. I am going back on Curves Complete weight management plan tomorrow. Enough. It's time.

Goal 2. ensure those 10,000 steps a day. I use to do this daily without much thought when selling furniture. There were days it was 15,000. I bought a health club and spend to much time behind the desk, that needs to change.

Goal 3. Get in 10 flights of stairs a day, the fitbit counts these and I can work towards a new badge with it. Awesome!

I wanted to call you today to say I love you, but your old number is no
longer in service. I tried the operator she said 'sorry I have no number
for you'. I tried to go to your house, but you don't live there
anymore. The post office has no forwarding address. I guess heaven is
just too far away. I Love You, I Miss You. Christmas is not the same without you, You are in my heart today... always. Loved ones are gone but not forgotten. Merry Christmas to all those in heaven..put this as your status if there is someone you love who is spending Christmas in heaven and you wish was down here with you ♥ Happy birthday Mike, we love and miss you!

First time ever

Never did this before, not sure I will ever again but Cheri and I are going shopping, Black Friday shopping. After all those years of working retail and working today I am willingly going into a store. I must be nuts..Should be interesting. will let ya know

lymes and mono update

I am back on the meds for both lymes and mono. Both are still extremely active and the doctor has me back on the medications. I do feel a bit better this time around, but still not back to normal. Now I am starting with a cold, doesn't surprise me. Resistance is low and everyone has had one. I am doubling up on all juice plus and hoping it helps.

goals

One of my goals this year was to be debt free. I just made the final payment on my Discover Card. I have owed them $$$ for years. At least the last 20..They are done, over, and gone! What a great feeling. Onto the next one.

Finally...

Feeling better. Done with the meds for lymes. finished them Wed night and am hoping that its gone and totally over with. Realise I could still have a few problems with the mono and will take it a bit easy yet. Sue and Betty are splitting the morning shift at the club and letting me have the morning off. it felt great. I go in this afternoon. I went out for an early morning run in the light drizzle, it felt great. Went about 2 miles, first time in ages. Then came home and worked on a zumba warm up and cool down I am adding to the routine. Maybe I am finally going to be over this.

New York City

Our club ladies had a blast in NYC. One week later we are still talking about it. We left last Friday morning, got back Sunday. We saw Mamma Mia at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway. My first play ever and I loved it. The ladies have been talking about this all week and we are talking about another trip next fall. Plus maybe a day trip somewhere close. We stopped for dinner on the way home at a place about 2 hours away. it had shopping, gift shops, resteraunt etc.

I am finally starting to feel better and have hopes that this thing is going to be under control. Meds will be done this week. I still haven't decided when I am resuming Zumba. Supposed to this thursday but may postpone it a bit longer.

Odds and ends

The business is going extremely well and keeping me very satisfied and busy. I am hiring two new staff members that are starting on Tuesday. I have completed my Curves Complete Certification and now coach and teach the new Curves Complete Weight Management Plan. that was fun to learn but time consuming.

I am also still teaching the Curves Circuit with Zumba Fitness and thanks to a facebook friend I recently learned to edit and create my own music with the zumba cues in it. That was a 5 hour long ordeal and quite an accomplishment.


I am still maintaining my weight but still have a few more pounds I want to lose. Yesterday sure didn't help. I am not allowed out in the sun, need to rest and think I layed around and ate most of the day. Back on track here today though.

What a week

This past week sure was a rough one, guess actually though its been the past two weeks. things are fuzzy in my brain which is part of the problem and has been for a while. this past week I was diagnosed with both lymes disease and mono. No wonder I have been feeling like crap for so long. It's been rough trying to run a business when I feel like I have been run over by a bus. I have been so out of breath that i haven't even been doing a full circuit, just to walk to the big pond has me huffing and puffing. My bones ache everywhere and my legs are to weak to hold me up for long. However, this week we got the test results back and know what is going on and now are treating it and on the road back to good health. Thank God!

We lost a lot of fish in our ponds. Not sure what got them, but something did. All of the big koi and the fancy butterflies are missing in the gardenpond. That was heartbreaking and alot of the fish in the big pond are gone too. However, at first we thought they were all missing and we have since seen that we do still have some. They were hiding pretty good. We are thinking it was either a mink or raccoon that got in there.

We are having a beautiful fall right now, yesterday was gorgeous but I am not supposed to be outside in the sun. The meds I am on for lymes warn against it. Darn it all, seems I just can't win.

Changes

I know that changes aren't always bad, however, I also know that I am very resistant to change. Always have been. There are times when change can be very good. For example, starting a new healthy lifestyle is a change, for some people, deciding to eat healthy and following through is a change. Going back to school or learning a new job, or starting a new hobby, those are all changes and they are good. Getting married, getting divorced, or having a baby are all changes and I guess again depending on the circumstances could be either good or bad.

I am trying to think of some changes that could be bad and guess it all really depends on what lead to the change, what circumstances brought you to it and how is the change going to affect your life and the people in your life.

I do believe that we are all where we are meant to be at this moment in time and that all things lead us to where we are supposed to be.

Sometimes, even things that make us sad and unhappy can be for the good in the long run and I guess that's important to remember. Easy isn't always better. Alot of people are so afraid of change that they stay. They are afraid to move out of a bad relationship, a bad job, change locations, so they stay even though they are unhappy because its easier to deal with than change.

Change can be good, it can be scary, exhilarating, fun, and always different. Always remember you have options and keep those doors open. Sometimes, I guess we just have to close our eyes, plug our nose and jump in feet first! Have faith that you can do this!

My little girls divorce is final.