Zumba Convention 2009

I just had to share this with everyone - Zumba is truly a new way to look at fitness.... Besides which, Beto takes his shirt off (for a split second)...and I forget then what a great teacher he is. Luckily, he puts it back on.... Watch:


2008 Zumba Convention from Zumba Fitness on Vimeo.

I also wrote an article on eHow for those who are interested in learning how to Zumba. It's both a noun and a verb: It's what we do! Anyway, it can seem intimidating to someone who is fascinated by zumba but not sure they should get into a class, try it out at home alone or whether they are even ready for a class. My article helps you know what you need and don't need to be ready to take a zumba class, then how to approach it so you get the most out of it. Write and let me know how you like it, and if there's anything I left out that I should have put it...or anything else for that matter.

My laptop still won't let me post to this blog (bummer!) and I got my cholesterol numbers done, so need to post that here. The good kind were up but so was the bad. I am not sure how it compares to the last ones I'd had done, but I think it was at least comparable to the ones I first had done, so I am not worse - just not sure if I am better or slightly worse than I was.

Another Good Find

The Biggest Mistakes Atkins Dieters Commit - found over at the Low Carb Dieters blog - is a great article to highlight the strange way that weight comes off when one is doing Atkins. It may apply to other low-carb diets as well.

If you're lowering your carbs and trying to lose weight at the same time, there are some good ideas in here about things you may be doing that can affect how that happens, plus a description of how normal is not normal when you're doing low carb.

Weight fluctuates widely?

Effects of caffeine and aspartame?

Effects of cheese?

Points to Ponder

Chinese fortune cookies have gotten pretty lightweight in the past few decades it seems, turning into mere random numbers suitable for the lottery and a ways to pretend you can learn how to pronounce a word of Chinese from reading its meaning.

One I found which fell out of this trend of frivolity caused me to ask this question: What would these things be? These "lighter things" and these "deeper joys" forecast by the following slip of paper tucked in a sugar-hardened folded edible treat:

"the lighter things in life and deeper joys will follow"

Today, this is your fortune because you chanced across it here. So it's your time to decide:

what are these things (for you)?