When Zumba Turns Out Not To Be Zumba

This morning was supposed to be my first Zumba class.  I arrived at 9:30 am, ready to rock-out-with-my-co ...you know...ready to rock out!  And as I passed the board on the way in, I noticed, not Zumba written in the 9:30 time slot, but Cardio Fusion.  Cardio Fusion is one of the few classes offered that does NOT have the little happy face next to its name.  The little happy face tells you that if you are a big fatty, you are less likely to keel over and die during that class.  I am all about the happy face!  This class, I repeat:  NO happy face.

However, some events were conspiring to get me in that class:  first of all...Heather was on her way to join me in the "Zumba" class.  I texted her frantically that I was MISTAKEN about the Zumba class, but she lives like 1/2 an hour away and was practically in the parking lot...what to do?  Then, as I was getting changed, one of the other mommies from my son's preschool was in there and she was all "oh are you going to do the class?  It's so fun!  Come do it!  If it's too hard, just take a break!".  Which made me go all "oh totally!  I love this class!"  (Gilly is a liar...shhhh)  Thing number 3:  It was only 9:30am, and I don't pick up the little...darling...until 11:15.  That's a LONG time to just hang out at the gym and do weights.  So I said screw it, and just walked into the class.

And I FRAKKING DID IT!!!  The whole thing (minus the minute or two it took me to fix my bra strap which basically exploded during the hard cardio stuff)!  And it was glorious!  People...this is a big deal for me.  6 months ago, I couldn't have STOOD for the hour the class took, never mind got my heart rate up and burned well over 300 calories (probably much closer to over 600 but I forgot to turn the Polar F4 on until about halfway through the class...oopsie!)  I was super proud of myself!  Still am! And I'm not saying this so you will pat me on the back and boost my already over-inflated ego.  I'm saying it because in spite of my progress, I am seriously one of the fattest girls out here still, and I am doing this stuff.  So if you are still not doing it, because you think you're out of shape, or you feel like you're too fat, or whatever reason, I'm telling you that you CAN.  If I hadn't done it today, I would have said that I couldn't have done it.  But I fell ass backwards into it, and I did it.  And so can you!

Swearsies!