Oxycise! works. I know this because several years ago, after the birth of Omar, my fourth child, I had grown to epic proportions and felt like I would never again be able to fit into a single digit jean size. After a long conversation with my mom where we discussed different breathing programs that claimed to help you lose weight, my mother, who had switched to BodyFlex, sent her Oxycise! tapes to Kuwait, where her so-desperate-I'll-try-anything-even-ridiculous-breathing-programs daughter waited anxiously for them to arrive.
Well ... imagine my surprise when after the first week I'd lost 2 pounds and several inches over-all from my hips, thighs, waist and tummy! I figured it had to be a fluke, but I stuck with the daily 15 minute routine and low and behold the next week I dropped another pound and a few more inches. Breathing was actually helping me shed excess pounds and inches. It was CRAZY!
Anyhow, that is what I did today; 15 minutes of Level 1 Oxycise! and it felt invigorating. So much so that a few hours later I did a 30 minute Pilates routine. I'm feeling pretty good about myself right now.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
March Has Arrived
So now that the month of February has finally moved behind me, I can move on to better things. I almost wrote "bigger and better things" but decided that since my plan is to start shrinking myself this month, I would just avoid references to "bigger" anythings.
I never used to have to worry about my weight. I was a size 5 all through high school and then when I got out of boot camp at the age of 18, I had shrunk into a size 3! But ... six children and a bunch of years have happened to me and now I find that I am not very pleased at all with what I see in the mirror. I am humiliated that I have to buy Women's size 16 jeans and that if I want them to be comfortable at all, I need to make sure they have at least 20% lycra in them. And so, to that end, I am committing myself. No, not to an asylum, although that has been recommended in the past. I am committing myself to a regular program of daily exercise and this blog is going to keep me accountable. I don't own a scale, though I will be investing in one very soon, but for now, I will simply start with basic body measurements and pray the numbers get smaller as the days pass.< So, if there is anyone at all that reads this with even a modicum of regularity, I would appreciate the odd note of encouragement or two.
And so it begins ...
I never used to have to worry about my weight. I was a size 5 all through high school and then when I got out of boot camp at the age of 18, I had shrunk into a size 3! But ... six children and a bunch of years have happened to me and now I find that I am not very pleased at all with what I see in the mirror. I am humiliated that I have to buy Women's size 16 jeans and that if I want them to be comfortable at all, I need to make sure they have at least 20% lycra in them. And so, to that end, I am committing myself. No, not to an asylum, although that has been recommended in the past. I am committing myself to a regular program of daily exercise and this blog is going to keep me accountable. I don't own a scale, though I will be investing in one very soon, but for now, I will simply start with basic body measurements and pray the numbers get smaller as the days pass.< So, if there is anyone at all that reads this with even a modicum of regularity, I would appreciate the odd note of encouragement or two.
And so it begins ...
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