Dreambiscuit

My workouts depend on what I want to accomplish. My full comprehensive workout (when I have time and the inclination) is cardio (elliptical machine at the gym for an hour, twice a week), light aerobics and minimal weights for all muscle groups. For weights I try to focus on different areas on different days; arms and shoulders one day, legs another day, core after that, etc. even though I don’t always follow that strictly and sometimes overlap different muscle groups if I feel like it. I only use weights for tone and never for building mass. When I don’t go to the gym I use Total Body Sculpt with Gilad videos I recorded off TV long ago, and they definitely do the job! They can be merciless at first though, but it’s good to follow along as well as the body will allow at the outset. Diet is a huge factor and while I don’t eat very healthy most of the time, amount of calories does play into the strategy. By simply changing from regular cola to diet cola saves me hundreds of calories per day. I eat two meals a day, with no second helpings, and if I get the munchies I use my favorite survivalist trick of eating a couple of breath mints at intervals, which can trick the brain into thinking it’s receiving calories and staves off the hunger. It actually does work. But the most important thing to keep in mind when working out is motivation! If I have a reason to get fit that can push me through all the pain and effort. Another important thing is managing weight loss into smaller increments; rather than deciding, “I need to lose 20 pounds” it’s a lot better, physically and psychologically, to attack the flab two or three pounds at a time, reward yourself at each mini goal, and then attack another few pounds until the greater goal is achieved. Patience is critical! The body needs time to change, so if it takes a long time and lots of effort at the outset, that’s normal. But once the body acclimates to a more active and healthy routine, the pounds fall off much easier. I’ve been there and lost a LOT of weight. Right now I’m doing a strenuous aerobic and cardio program with light weights to tighten up my midsection after I had my baby last year. I lost the mommy weight but still have to get tone back; that’s the current goal and I intend to reach it by mid-August.

While Luna is by far my favorite pony princess, I would probably write to Twilight because she’s more likely to reply with a friendly letter that would be enjoyable to read, and it would probably be written on nice stationary in purple ink. Luna, if she replied at all, would probably be a little grim, businesslike and somewhat cold, written with some ectoplasmic goo on a scrap of wallpaper ripped from the wall. While each is compelling in their own ways, Twilight would be easier to correspond with.