Exercise shmexercise

Throughout my life, I have had a battle with my weight.  It has been a long road but I am finally at a point where I can see a healthy attitude about food in my life. 

Part of this journey has been figuring out what activities and exercises I like to do.  In Charleston, I was lucky enough to stumble upon two of the greatest things in the whole world...Roller Derby and MUSC's Bootcamp.  Participating in these two programs opened up my world to two whole new families.  I have learned so much about myself in the past year in large part to these two groups.  It was not uncommon for me to be working out 5 times a week with Bootcamp and 3 times a week with Derby.

The hardest thing about leaving Charleston was no longer being a part of these groups.  Luckily, I have found that with both Derby and Bootcamp once you are family you are family forever no matter how far away you are!

I am trying to get my act together to start practicing with the Derby team on Oahu.  I need to buy new gear and dont really have the money right now (not having a job sucks!).  Eventually I will get the gear and get out on my skates again.  Until then, I am helping out with the team's bouts so I can get to know the girls.

My bootcamp family is awesome and has really helped me make this difficult life transition.  We have an annual holiday weight loss challenge that I was a part of (half in Charleston and half in Hawaii).  I am happy to say that I won!  This challenge really helped me not go off the deep end on my sad days.  With the holiday challenge over a new challenge was started up and without even asking rules were make so that I could participate.  I dont know what I would do without these challenges.  I have not found a workout routine that I love yet but I now have a reason to make sure I find one. 

Hawaii is the land of activities.  There are always people running, biking, walking, etc when you go outside..more so than anywhere else I have seen.  I have already started a list of things that I want to try but have not gotten to: Bikram yoga (hot yoga), bootcamp class on base, TRX class on base, outrigger canoeing, and stand up paddleboarding.  I cant wait to start crossing things off this list and adding new stuff.  Hopefully, I will find stuff I love to do and will have a new workout routine. 

Until then, I am on the treadmill everyday and have even have the dogs walking on the treadmill (videos of that coming soon).

I guess the point of this post was to get out my frustration on not having the safety net of workouts that I had in Charleston and to put my plan of action out there so I will have to do something about it.  I am grateful for the family I had in Charleston that continues to support me on this journey and I cant wait to find another family in Hawaii.