Zumba fun!

Okay, Zumba last night was awesome. The instructor put together a collection of her favorite songs from classes throughout the semester, and it was really high energy and really fun! I was laughing and smiling the whole time, and I was SO tired and sweaty by the end. I hope there are Zumba classes offered over the summer!

Jogging

My usual workout when I go to the gym on a non-Zumba day involves jogging two miles on the track with a walked lap in between. Yesterday I went to the gym and my running was going really well, so I decided to see if I could run 3 miles without any breaks, and I did it! I don't know if I will run 3 miles every time from now on, but it feels good to know I can do it.

2 Months

OKAY. Tomorrow marks the 2 month point until the wedding. Time to get really intense about working out and eating right! I still need to lose about 3-4 lbs. to hit my goal weight. There are about 3 weeks left in the semester, and about a month left of work. I'm hoping that I can go to the gym more often once classes are over, but I think I'm going to have to buy a summer gym pass to keep being able to go to the one on campus after classes end.

My weight has still been fluctuating a lot:
4/06/10: +2.3
4/08/10: +2.1
4/15/10: +3.7
4/22/10: +3.3

This week's goals are to minimize unnecessary snacking and drink more water. I bought some La Croix, which will make me more motivated to hydrate myself. I want to try to replace pop in my diet with unsweetened iced tea, but I think that will need to be a goal for another week. ;)

Update

Okay. 84 days until the wedding. Oh man. My wedding prep fitness has been generally good, but I'm not seeing huge results. Oh, and I've totally failed on working out my arms. But, we've had frozen pizza every Thursday and I've only eaten 3 slices of pizza instead of 4 every time. And I've been going to Zumba every Thursday, and I try to go to the gym once a week in addition to Zumba, but it doesn't happen every week. My weight seems to fluctuate SO much:

2/23: +3.8
2/25: +4.1
3/02: +3.7
3/03: +2.1
3/04: +3.0
3/09: +3.7
3/10: +4.2
3/11: +4.9
3/18: +3.1
3/25: +3.8
4/01: +2.5

Despite my fluctuating weight, I feel really good and healthy now that I've been going to the gym at least once a week. I can even see that my legs and tummy are a bit less squishy looking than they were in January, which makes me happy. I have a lot of work for school to do in the next few months as the end of the semester nears, so I'm hoping that I can keep up with my workouts during that time.

Arms

I started arm workouts today! I measured the circumference of the thickest part of both of my upper arms this morning before working out. I'm going to try to keep track of the size of my arms throughout the next few months to see what happens. I've heard that when you start working out your arms they swell up a bit and then eventually get thinner. I'm hoping the getting thinner part happens before the wedding! ;) Oh, and I learned this morning that my right arm is way stronger than my left. This is not surprising, but it was just very apparent to me when my left arm was begging me to stop and my right arm was like, "Yeah, let's do this!" Hahaha.

Arm Workouts Starting Next Week

Okay. Officially 4 months until the wedding. I brought my 8 lb. weights to my apartment, so starting next week I'm going to do arm workouts on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings before work. I'm hoping that I can slim down the overall circumference of my upper arms at least a little bit in the next few months. And maybe get a little stronger! ;) My goal should be obtainable if I can keep up with the workouts. Oh, by the way, Zumba is still SO fun and I wish it was more often than just Thursdays!

Eating Everything

I'm having an eat everything I see night. We had an early dinner, then I got hungry again and ate about 40% of a pint of ice cream. Then I had a slice of pepperjack cheese. This is not good. It's only 9:45pm. There are so many more minutes that I can spend eating before I go to bed.