reclaiming me

Happy Monday, everyone!

Today’s workout:

• PBS
• One mile walk (it’s sunny and I took pity on the pooch)
• TWO
• Core series
• Diva Derriere
• Awesome Legs

The great fat migration is continuing. I swear, it’s so bizarre to me to be sitting here in this chair, able to feel a roll of belly flab in front of me. That’s *not* where I carry my weight, darn it! It does, however, seem to be one of the slower-to-lose places on my body, where fat gathers to chat amongst itself before heading out the door. It’s just a weird feeling to me. My hips and rear even feel less flabby than my belly, huh? Today’s a squish day in the fat shift cycle, and I keep telling myself that’s a good thing. Squish = leaving soon, right? RIGHT?

The shoulder issue on my left side that’s plagued me seems to finally be subsiding. As I did Torso Twist today, I faced a mirror on the side of the room (high up, so I can only see bustline and higher), and noticed that my left shoulder is almost *always* higher than my right one. I know exactly what’s caused this — carrying a 20-something pound toddler around — and I’ll be more careful in the future to distribute her weight evenly across me. I’d finally figured out that the pain was from an overly-tight trapezius muscle on that side, so with stretching and attention to form, the pain is going away, hooray!

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Friday: OFF

Saturday: PBS, OIP/HF, TWO I’d planned to also do core, DD, and AL…but we had a fire in the fireplace. By the time I was done with TWO, my hair was soaked from sweat, and I was tired of dripping. Plus, I expected my parents to arrive within 1/2 an hour and kind of thought a shower might be a courteous idea.

Sunday: MORE, with my mom. While I did the moves, I mostly worked with and helped my mom with her form. She’s been doing MORE 6 days per week since I gave her the DVDs 3 weeks ago — I’m so proud of her! Once she took off her baggy sweatshirt for us to work out, I could see changes in her upper body, especially the pecs and ribs. Of course, like me, she’s more of a butt/thigh person, so I’ve started warning her about fat shift and setting her thoughts that it’s a *good* thing. She’s excited about the April 14th clinic in Colorado Springs and might even make plans for some private sessions with Bekki after school’s out — she’s retiring this year.

After we finished more, I added the core series, DD, and AL. Mom noticed that my calves look SO muscular as I did AL — they’ve always had the muscle, but now enough fat has melted off that they’re downright CUT.

Fat shift is continuing, and I feel like a human toothpaste tube. Well, a tube that *I* use, that is. A tub my husband uses would look more like me pre-T-Tapp, squish above and below (annoying, and why I try to have my own tube, LOL). For me now, I feel like my legs are really leaned out until I hit about mid-thigh. Ditto with my shoulders and upper body, until I hit just around my waist. From my waist to mid-thighs, all of the fat I’ve had has accumulated. I’m in a squishy phase right now, and I swear, I can see definite delineation between the cellulite pockets and the rest of me. It’s really odd looking.

Just keep tapping…

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