Starting something ... mixing with something old!

I know I NEVER write on this blog and here's hoping I'm going to change that. I'm not big on weight loss blogs. I don't want my world (cyber world or otherwise) to just be about how much weight I lost doing some program. So this will continue to have my life's adventures as well as maybe motivation to keep my weight loss going so I can do what I REALLY want to do.

I want to be a Zumba ® Instructor. Now I'm already licensed but I feel (and this is in my opinion) that being any kind of fitness instructor requires looking somewhat like someone who cares about their body. That is not me! I know there are fuller instructors out there as nobody has the same body shape or size and I'm not saying that they aren't good instructors but I want to be more than that. I want to be someone who my class goes... I'm doing this to look like that?  I want to look like this from Sagette Photography

I want to look like her!

But this is me...

I've had a world wind year thus far. My dad was Diagnosed with Stage 3a lung cancer and if that doesn't throw you through a loop, add 30 new pounds to the mix. I've been struggling with my weight AGAIN for some time now but as an emotional eater that's all I seem to want to do... EAT!  I have however been reinvigorated by Bob Harper's Skinny Rules. I'm not sure how it'll work with Weight Watchers but we'll see.  From what I can tell, all his foods are low in points so it shouldn't be too much of difference.

Why not JUST WEIGHT WATCHERS?  I've been doing weight watcher's since I've graduated college. I got to goal the first time through but in doing the points along the way you learn to how to cheat the system. Especially with their new program with a lot of the GHG's (Good Health Guidelines) are now zero points easier used for something not so healthy! My hope is by incorporating the Bob Harper's Rules (i.e. Rule # 7 No carbs after Lunch) into the WW program, I'll be able to do it, work it the way it should be worked.

So that is part of this Hitch we call life. Working to be the best me I can be!  Here we go... Again!