Fitness and Jazz

So for all of you that really know me, you know that I have to work out. It's kind of an addiction (can you really call an addiction to fitness a bad thing). Now while my trip of a lifetime to Europe was amaaazing it also put a 7-week long kink in my usual fitness routine. Also added about 10 more pounds to my permanent fitness goal. Boo. This is the look I was rocking at the beginning of my career during training:

Upon my arrival in Lafayette I'd had enough of this and made a commitment to get back on track. So I joined Anytime Fitness between work and home (no excuses to pass it by on my way home). I went it alone for about a month and a half, wasn't really seeing results so I made two big changes: a solid eating plan (stolen from a magazine which I'll speak about in a later post) and bootcamp style classes sometimes twice a day to get everything started. HUGE fitness improvements for sure (at the beginning I wanted to die).

The next level was to keep it going with bootcamp classes from Alli, the best motivator, TRX classes and... wait for it... ZUMBA! I jumped on the band wagon. I'm so sad I didn't do it before then too because I know how much my Hali friends loved it.

So after putting in a pretty solid effort I have a progress update:

Minus 12 pounds and still going. I've hit a bit of a lull right now but haven't gone up, so that's progress right? Anyway it's ironically time for lunch, so get out there and sweat your butt off!