Dance

I went to a dance competition for a friend this past weekend and realized I MISS dancing.

I may not be a very good dancer, but my HEART is there. And nothing relieves stress like dance. That is why I love Zumba. I suck at it, but it's dance and I live for it! I was so depressed all weekend at the competition thinking about the stupid choices I made in high school, thinking about choosing bad things over dancing and dropping out of it all. And looking at theose young girls dancing their hearts out and doing so well. I wish I could tell them all to never give up!!

I am a fighter, and have pushed myself through many trials in my life, but for some reason I gave up on dance. After being sad about it for a few hours on Saturday, I decided, it's time to MAKE IT RIGHT! I am going to start training GUNG-HO for the next several months. I need to get firm and fit. My body is not in a position to be dancing, it jiggles :) no one wants to see that.

I might have an opportunity placed my way in the next year where I would be able to teach a hip hop workout class. And I don't want my poor lazy decisions to get in the way of dance ever again!!!

This is it my friends.. my intervention has been HAD and I'm moving forward.

Challenge: what did you give up on as a child/teen that you wish you didn't or had pursued more? Find out, and create an opportunity to get that back in some way.

xoxoxox

Jiggly Leslee

Favorite Side Dish

My sister in law Shellee shared this amazing recipe w/me!! LOVE IT!!

ROSEMARY POTATOES

6-8 red potatoes cut into 1/2 inch pieces
1 tbsp olive oil
2 tsp sea salt
1/2 tsp ground black pepper
rosemary (about 2 tbsp)

Preheat oven to 400 and cook on cookie sheet for 45 min


LOVE this with steak, chicken, veggies or any other dish!

Choices

It all comes down to the choices we make. The FIRST step in eating better is what you have available to you in your house. Right? I mean, I always go for what is easiest to snack on.

Sunday afternoon I threw away a VERY FULL garbage bag of crappy food. Hard decision, but I felt empowered. Like I had finally taken control of my life and got rid of an old nasty boyfriend or something awesome like that.. HA

Needless to say, I had a meeting.. AKA coming to Jesus .. with my trainer Isaiah Price (Energy Explosion) and I learned that there IS good food and it's NOT that hard to supply your fridge and belly with it!

Throughout all of my "trying to lose weight and get healthy" steps, I had decided that I was just too picky of an eater to find enough healthy meals and so I needed to have crappy regular foods more often because I didn't really have much of an option. Well, that is a lie! Even someone like ME who doesn't even like my food to TOUCH eachother, can find good healthy options.

This was what I replaced all of my crappy food choices with...

$88.00 worth of HEALTHY and filling food....
Asparagus, Broccoli, carrots, pickles, celery, dark leaf lettuce, peppers, apples, WHEAT bagels, bread and tortillas, corn tortillas, black beans, eggs, red potatoes, top sirloin steak, edemame, whole wheat pasta, granola and most of all NO sugary crappy processed food or freezer meals!!!!!!

THIS is an accomplishment, and may sounds like weird hippie food to you. BUT I am excited to cook meals like: eggs on toast, toasted turkey sandwiches, cucumber sandwiches, yummy tortilla soup, breakfast burriots, chicken and pepper pasta, fajitas, steak and potatoes, red potatoes with veggies.... ETC.

Huge accomplishment for me.. I challenge you to throw away at least ONE thing that you have that is unhealthy and to stop buying it when you go to the store. Even if it's just one thing at a time that you're replacing with something healthy. I am NOT a superhuman or majorly motivated and "one of those people" , I am just as normal as you and I promise if I can do this so can you!!!