Just Dance Just Sweat Drean Team Update

Thank you to Ubisoft for picking me to be a member of the Just Sweat Dream Team and sponsoring this fitness series. Please click here to learn more about Ubisoft. I was selected for this sponsorship by the Clever Girls Collective. All opinions are my own. 

Hi guys!! We're back again with a video diary about our Just Dance experienced this month.  First, just watch this painfully bad video:



Gah! I hate those videos.  Do they intentionally freeze frame at the most unattractive point for the preview image on those things?!  Whatever.  As I said {so eloquently}in the video, this past month has been a struggle with staying motivated and staying on the right path EVEN WHEN you are not losing the weight.  That's not entirely true -- I've lost two more pounds this month.  It's progress.  Painfully, painfully SLOW progress.  Honestly, it's hard.  We're living in a society of instant gratification -- fast food, high speed internet, cell phones -- we want everything RIGHT NOW.  I feel like I should weigh less every single time I step on the scale.  That hasn't been the case, obviously, but I'm pleased that the weight I have lost is staying off.  I don't really have as much fluctuation in my weight as I used to, AND I'm not gaining for the first time in the past few years.  That's something . . .

We've really had to learn to measure success by a different standard and be happy with that.  For me, and maybe for lots of people, entering into a new pattern of healthy eating {I hate the word diet} or working out is done for the sole purpose of losing weight.  I fixate on that number on the scale and lower numbers = success.  I've found through this Just Dance Just Sweat Dream Team process that when I focus ONLY on my weight, I tend to miss the other really great things that are happening as a result.  I have so much more energy all day long and I am sleeping like a baby at night.  It's been years since I've consistently gotten a good night's sleep.  That's something . . . We can both work out longer and more intensely than we could two months ago.  That's something . . . I don't crave fast food, like at all.  We've done drive-thru dinners a couple of times, but it's been because we were super busy those days, not because I just really wanted it. That's also something . . . My jeans are too big for me now.  That's a BIG something. 

So, there has been progress and success.  We love using Just Dance as a part of our fitness routine.  Dancing is so much more fun than running for me so I look forward to doing it.  Anyway, that's it for another month.  We'll be back in October with our final results!  See what the other team members are up to here.