How Cool is THIS??

So, if you've been keeping up you know I joined Curves in September. I've been three times a week every week since. It has kick-started my exercise life like you wouldn't believe.

There are some who have doubts about how effective a 30 minute circuit training program can be -- nothing but hydraulic machines that, in order to be used correctly, depend on the user doing them correctly (not hard to do), and pushing themselves. The naysayers say that this is "exercise light" for middle-aged, out of shape housewives. Let 'em.

I'll be having my second set of measurements taken in a few days, but last month I had lost a total of 5.5 inches (in a month -- meaning 12 workouts), and there's something about that 30 minutes, three times a week that has totally changed my life. I'm now doing 30 - 60 minutes of quality cardio 6 times a week (some long walks, some home exercise DVD's -- mostly Leslie Sansone).

There have been benefits I'd never have imagined: I don't have to take sleep aids anymore. I've shed about 4 pounds (the creepin' up that was making me nuts has been nipped in the bud), I have more mental and physical energy, the moodiness associated with the change o' life is back down to manageable levels (no crying jags in 6 weeks)..... and I'm back in all the clothes that I couldn't wear just three months ago.

But the coolest evidence happened while I was making supper tonight. We were having Boboli pizzas -- you know, you buy the crust and build your own. I was building mine, and reached into the cabinet to get the jar of pizza sauce, and as I pulled it out of the cabinet Henry started coming in my direction -- I have never been able to open a jar without bangin' on it with a knife or using one of those sticky pad grip things. Well, I put my hand on that lid, twisted it, and POP - off it came.

Henry was so startled he just stood there staring at me! He finally said, "Well, Wonder Woman..."

How cool is THAT???