Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee

I'm changing my name to Hayley Ali! JK lol Maybe I was some kind of boxer in another life lol. I say this because I just joined a boxing club. It's all fitness not an actual boxing gym though. But we use hand wraps, gloves, and punching bags. I went for the first time last night and joined right up! For the past 2 months I've been going to kickboxing classes at the gym. I would go 4-6 times a week.  I enjoy them but I want something more. I've always wanted a boxing bag but never had anywhere to put it. After my surgery I even told some people that I wanted to join a boxing gym or get a real kickboxing trainer but didn't neccesarily want to compete or anything. Well I found my fit! Title Boxing Club is focused all on fitness. It was like bootcamp the first half, doing calisthenics like push ups, squat jumps, running with high knees, burpees(hands on the floor, kick legs out to a push up position, then bring legs back towards hands and jump up).

To tell you the truth those scare me haha. I'm always afraid my hands will slip and I'll fall flat on my face. But I still do them. Anyways, the second half of the class is bag work. We put on gloves (hands on wrapped which this makes me a huge dork but I feel so cool wearing the wraps) and start doing rounds of punches. A great stress reliever!! Which I definitely need! Not that I am stressed but I tend to have high emotions so when I'm feeling like I need to punch something, now I can! That kinda sounds bad but we've ALL felt that way, right? I was read somewhere that after this surgery your hormones go into overload. When you lose fat it releases hormones and so since I'm losing very quickly, my emotions are pretty high especially since I've always been a pretty emotional person. I'm going to really enjoy this place. I thought I was going to be extremely sore today but I feel pretty good. Although sometimes it takes 2 days for you to really feel how well your muscles have been worked on so ask me again tomorrow. I was filling out paperwork last night and my hands were shaking. You don't know how hard you hit even with gloves.

I've noticed alot of changes in myself these last 3 months. Obviously physically, but with my confidence and self esteem too. I told my mom this morning how before my surgery I would have never set foot in that boxing club. My self esteem being so low I would've have thought that everyone would be staring at me and thinking why is she here, or laugh, or they would think that I couldn't handle it. I still have those feelings but not nearly as much. The instructor even told me I did well and that he could tell I've done stuff like this before. That I had good execution. Made me feel great and know that I can keep up. It was still HARD but I have so much more energy now that I know I will stick with it. That's another thing I've noticed, that I'm more committed to things. My mom said that and I realized hey that's true. For the past 2 months I've been pretty religious about my workouts. Sticking with it and going everyday when before I would go only a couple times a week and then start feeling lazy and stop going all together. I hate when I miss a workout I feel like I've gained 10 pounds. Weird I know. Also I have committed to becoming a Parklane Jewelry consultant! So get ready for me to be asking you to host a party! HAHA! Don't feel obligated to have one but it I had so much fun at mine and I because I got 10 orders I get $500 in jewelry for FREE! So just something to think about. And there are some great deals for your guests.

Here are my progress pics plus my "boxing" pic with my new red gloves.