What do you mean "dieting" isn't enough?

I am the laziest person in the world.  I mean it.  It's like inertia with me, an object at rest remains at rest.

A year ago I pre-paid a month's mortgage to a private gym so that I could have personal trainers, 4 times a week for 9 months.  Started doing that, and (while I didn't really lose all that much weight) I stopped gaining it.  I still have a good 20 or so workouts left with them because of appointments missed, vacations, etc., and I've started going back weekly, on Mondays and Tuesdays.

My workplace also sponsors a weekly workout at Cardio Barre, which is just a block or so away from our office.  That's what I do on Thursdays.

And my mother gave me 8 sessions with Dionna Veremis, a pilates instructor that I see on Fridays.

You'd think with all that working out, I'd have buns of steel and washboard abs, right?  Yeah, not so much.  What I do is wonderful, and healthy and super fantastic, but it's not enough.  The twice weekly workouts at the private gym amount to about 40 total minutes of cardio a week.  I should be doing that in one day.  The Cardio Barre workout is intense and great for toning, but the cardio section of the workout is so fast that I can barely keep up.  And Pilates is amazing.  Honestly, I had no idea how much I would love it, and I truly do love it, but it's not cardio.

Cardio is what is going to get this weight falling off me the way I want it to, and it's high time I just accept it.

Over the weekend, Amazon.com had a Daily Deal for a pair of highly rated running shoes.  A few years ago, I was doing a Boot Camp program that I really, really loved.  Unfortunately, when I got my new job in North Hollywood, I could no longer make it to the boot camp on time without being late to work, so I had to sacrifice it.

One thing I did learn, however, is that I can run.  Okay, maybe not run, but certainly jog.  By the end of my second tour of boot camp I was jogging a mile without having to slow down to walk.  The other thing I learned was that in order to do that, I had to have decent shoes.

So when my shoes come in (which should be tomorrow) I think I'll be taking them out for a spin around the neighborhood.  It's insanely hot these days and I may need to rethink that and head over to the 24 Hour Fitness, where both Tony and I have a membership we haven't utilized in two years.  I'm sure the treadmills miss me.