Hello there! I just to share with you the wonderful evening Scott and I had with our neighbourhood friends. We decided to meet up at a restaurant for dinner. There was not much variety on the menu and I was feeling so stuffed from eating cheese and potatoes the last few days…however, there was something called “SoHo Chicken Salad” Wow, it was so delicious!

There was a lot of chicken, red onions, mandarin oranges, chinese noodles, and poppy seeds. As we were waiting for our food everyone was asking each other what they ordered. When I told them what I ordered, most of the responses were, ‘that’s it’ and ‘aren’t you hungry?’ The funny thing was that when they saw my plate they were all drooling over how good it looked and how large the salad was. I was so full afterward! I am following the Every Other Day Diet – Lifestyle Plan and it truly was the perfect meal for me.

I was totally satisfied and energized afterward. I wanted to share this with you because I know some of you may think that it is difficult to eat a healthy meal when you are at a restaurant. Or, you may feel that you have to order a full size meal when the rest of your party is. I am here to tell you to be a leader! Be the healthy role model in your group of friends! Find friends that support your healthy food choices and choose to live the lifestyle of champions.

Okay, so that was the first part of our evening. Then we all went to Rock N’ Bowl and had a blast! The lights were dimmed and awesome dance music was blaring in our ears! It was so much fun! My bowling score was humiliating, but the laughs were endless!

The final and most hilarious part of our night ended with two couples coming back to our home to participate in a DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) challenge! For those of you whom have Playstation 2 may know what I’m talking about. If you do not, it is a game where you have a mat on the floor in front of you and it has arrows where your feet will go. You watch the t.v. screen and you try to match up the arrows on the screen with your foot movement. Basically, you are doing dance moves and you can make choose a ‘beginner’ all the way up to an ‘elite’ level. I have yet to conquer the ‘difficult’ level. I always get booted off!

Do you sweat? Is your heart rate through the roof? Is it addictive? Is it fun? The answer to all of this is OMG , YES! It is an amazing fun cardio workout! We had such a blast with our friends! It’s just as much fun to watch them as to do it yourself. I have been practicing it on the ‘workout mode’ and I am breaking out in such a sweat! It’s fantastic! So if you need some spice to your cardio routine, or worse yet, if you do not have a cardio routine…look into this DDR. It really is a blast. The funniest part is that Scott and I are the only ones using it! We bought it for our 4 and 6 year old. They are not interested in it – YET. I know the time will come.

We will post a video soon of what exactly it is. I love it because its another dimension to add to my Fit Chic Year of Workouts that I follow each day. A couple of days in the week, I only do cardio. So I can choose DDR now and its so much fun. I’m sure once my daughter sees how much fun I am having, she will hope right on. For the girls who are already following the Fit Chic Year of Workouts you can choose DDR on two days and then walk for at least 30 minutes the other two days.

Remember,too, if you need some extra motivation during your walk just listen to the Unstoppable Fat Loss audio series. You can download it right to your MP3 player or ipod. Trust me, it’ll give you that extra skip in your step that you’ve been lacking. It will totally get your mind opened up to the possibilities that you can attain by simply controlling your thoughts. I know I’ve said it before, but yes I cannot stress it enough…IT IS POWERFUL. It’s all about real people, real life stories, real change.

I hope I’ve enlightened you in some way today…

Cheers to health,

Angie