It’s Almost Summer

Just to show you how much I’ve been slackin on my mackin…this post was designed to start off saying something like this:  I can’t believe it’s the end of April  or I can’t believe it’s the beginning of May!  And as you see, it’s mid-to-late May now and this post is just being made! Oh well, I’m a work in progress right now.  I have a lot of balls up in the sky that I’m juggling right now and it’s so easy to just not even touch the computer when I come home from work.  Unfortunately that means, my blog, my outlet, gets left out of the mix at times.


So on to the point of this post right?  So it’s now late-May and it’s really past time to get on my A game.  I’ve been making strides lately to get back to me.  But let me start from the beginning.  Okay so I believe it was late March that my friend sent me a text and was like, Aria, you have got to get these Zaggora Hot Pants, they have changed my life.  I looked into them.  This is my bbff {inside joke} talking here, and she wouldn’t just out of nowhere be like, this is the business! They’re from the UK and are pretty pricey, but she told me it was a Groupon deal that comes up from time to time.  So I decided to keep my eyes peeled out for it, and the next time I checked my Groupon App, there it was.  On Groupon it’s $26 and for shipping to the US is $7.95 which is paid for at the Zaggora site.  It takes forever and a day to get here, which equates to about 4 weeks.  But believe you me, it’s well worth the wait!!


When you get to the site, you’ll see the reviews and on their facebook page as well…about the 2 week challenge.  Well, I semi-took the 2 week challenge.  Half the time I forgot to wear the pants! And whereas many people said they got results just from wearing them, I found they worked best if I actually worked out in them!  So although the scale isn’t being my friend as usual, my clothes and my measuring tape are!!  My new pants that I bought a few months ago, now fit.  My old jeans that I haven’t worn in years, now fit.  Even my next size down in Spanx that I haven’t fit since I bought them years ago…they now fit!  So I am truly excited!


And what’s crazy, is that lately I haven’t been working out for the purpose of losing weight.  I’ve done it to alleviate stress.  This is just the kickstart that I’ve needed to keep me going.  So now I’m about the business and my beach vacation is less than 60 days away!  I don’t expect to be a size 6 by then, but I do plan to be a size 10.  I’ve already ordered the next size down in another pair of the hotpants.  They’re not magic or anything, but they help my workout go further.  And I’m determined to work my ass off for the next several weeks.  I have no choice.  I don’t want to be super self-conscious at the beach for a week.  And although I have to work out keeping my arm in mind, I refuse to continue to allow it to hold me back.  I have to push through.  And I have.  I’m just happy to see progress.  Not only in a quarter of an inch here and there, and my clothes fitting, but also in my stamina during my workouts.  I’m jumping higher in my turbos than ever before!  Now if only I could stay off that scale!

me in my hotpants