Karaoke

I love Karaoke! I think it is BIG FUN! We used to have a karaoke machine when the lovelies were growing up and that thing provided us with countless hours of FUNFUNFUN!

Even if you don't enjoy participating in karaoke directly, it's just as much fun to watch everyone else make fools out of themselves have a blast!

What in the world does this have to do with health? Fitness? Weight loss? Lifestyle changes?

 It's the FUN part.

Believe it or not, it's actually possible to have fun getting healthy and fit. The trick is finding the things that make it fun for you personally.

I have changed my method of exercising about a million times (not as much of an exaggeration as you might think) but I've found something I really like to do and I not only have fun doing it, I had fun getting to it. There was the yelling at the girls who instruct on Yoga Booty Ballet and DO NOT KNOW HOW TO COUNT- 4 does NOT come after 6); the laughing at the Wii fit when I stepped up and the little ass voice said, "OH!" because I weighed so much and the discovery that I had ZERO balance; the walking of Deanie's 110 pound chocolate lab puppy who pulled me all around the ponds like a feather blowing in the wind behind him; my one and only attempt at P90x that nearly caused me to have a stroke from laughing at what he was telling me to do; the trial gym membership where the 80 years olds were putting me to shame on the treadmills and I couldn't do the weight machines because the 30 year old males distracted me; the time I discovered that ellipticals are of Satan... See? Fun!

Eating habits? I've changed those as well. AND, now that I've found what works for us, it's fun to prepare meals and discover newtome ways of cooking. Particularly now that everything I prepare is made from scratch- which reminds me of my grandmother and the fun times she and I had in the kitchen together! Even the mess-ups have been fun as we poke fun at them by saying what they remind us of or making those fake throw-up noises or the faces where we try to hide our disgust but can't. Y'all should have seen our faces the first time I made a green smoothie that looked more like swamp mud than something good for us.

What about weight loss? That can't be fun. Or can it? Yes it's a long, drawn out process, but I've had fun along the way. I'm still having fun. Because all of those things I've done to make our lifestyle healthier is also helping me with my weight loss.

And the practices such as oil pulling and dry skin brushing? Well, if you had seen the looks I got when I first mentioned them, you would know how that was fun. Deer in the headlights followed immediately by holycrapshehasfinallylosthermind looks.Fun AND funny! 

It's all in good fun. And good health.

Ok, it's not all fun and games. There are frustration and annoyances and bad moods and yelling to name a few. But, as with anything else, it is what you make of it. So, given a choice, why not make if fun?

This is the eleventh day of the A-Z April Challenge. I thought I might try a theme this year and focus on my personal journey to health and fitness, including weight loss.

Today's letter is K and my word for the day is KARAOKE.