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SWIMSUIT SHOPPING!

So, yesterday I decided that I’ve already maybe talked big. I blogged in MY STORY about how I’ve let go of comparing myself to others and am just gonna be happy in my own skin. Well....I may be eating my words a little after this past week. Hi, I'm Dina, and I compared myself to a Victoria Secret model the other day. EEEK. As if. I've been on a swimsuit buying mission for the past month, so I spent my lunch hour the other day trying on suits that I ordered online from VS. Yes, the models are airbrushed and likely photoshopped but we all know they must look HOT(T) in person, too. I’ve mentioned it on my fitness page but probably not here. I have two trips to Vegas coming up…the first in just a few weeks and the other in the middle of June. And, if you’ve been to Vegas…hell, you don’t even need to have been to Vegas in May or June to know it will be hot. And, for those of you who don’t know me, I could literally spend the entire day just by or in a pool on a … Read More

Workout ADD & Comfort Zones

A fitness trainer told me last year that she thought I had "workout ADD" after sending her an example of a few week's worth of my exercise schedule in preparation to me signing up as a client. After getting over being mildly offended, I realized she was totally right. For a long time, I had chalked my crazy exercise schedule up to it just meaning I really liked a LOT of different types of exercise...but after she said it, I took a step back and thought...um, yeah, I'm all over the place. At the time, I was practicing Zumba and just getting ready to go live with my classes, I was doing Jillian Michaels Body Revolution and was going to start ChaLean Extreme (for more strength training) and I ran occasionally. It was nothing for me at the time to work out 2 or 3 times a day. So, she tailored a schedule which involved her circuit workouts...just once a day mind you...with a few HIIT sessions each week and left my Zumba in place. Her workouts would come via email. A lot of the circuit … Read More

Running

(**WARNING: This post is long and all over the place!...a lot to talk about apparently and not enuf time to edit and get it posted!**) In high school, the most running I did was in basketball. I absolutely LOVED basketball…but I was not an overachiever who went out running a month before practice started and got some sprints or distance in to condition! I would wait until that first day of practice and cuss out those crushers under my breath and walk around like an 80-year-old for the first week….what do they even call crushers now because I said it around a high school kid not too long ago and pretty sure they had no idea what I was talking about. So, after high school and basketball was gone, I pretty much sucked. Sure, I played co-ed volleyball but any calories I may have burned during that were easily erased by our celebrating afterward…we weren’t necessarily always celebrating winning…..but it was celebrating none-the-less. I would get a wild hair every … Read More

Impact

Ok, here goes my first official blog entry! If you haven’t already ready My Story, click HERE. To kick this blog off, I’d like to talk about two words ~ REJECTION & IMPACT. If you still haven’t read My Story (see above), what you don’t know is that it’s taken me a LONG long time to get to the point where I could write….where I could SHARE….on this blog. Among so many other fears, one of my biggest is the fear of rejection. Most of you out there are probably thinking….UMMM, YEAH, who ISN’T afraid of being rejected??? Ok, granted…it’s a common fear! But, I finally woke up one day and decided I wasn’t going to let that fear hold me back anymore. I decided it was sad to think I wouldn’t do things because I was scared and intimated and worried what people would think. I decided it was a necessary step in my journey of rediscovery (yep, I can be lame and cliché…..among other things…so there’s your warning). I decided it would make me stronger. I decided in most cases, even if I do … Read More