Karate: Day 1

I have another twenty minutes before I have to hit up the dojo so what better time to make a blog post?

My first Karate class was Monday. I'm starting off at a size 8, 141 lbs, 5'5". My goal is to be 130 lbs and be able to get back into my damned size 6 skinny jeans - I had been able to when I was 132.

On the days I'm not at the Dojo, I'm walking the dogs and trying to exercise at home. All soda and junk food's been cut out of my diet, portions have been made smaller. Depressing, right?! I've even switched to soy milk! (At least, at work. Mom just bought a half gallon of 2% and putting that to waste would make me wince.)

I may go to the Dojo three times a week. Ideally, this will be Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday thing - get some in there for every portion of the week! This week is only Monday and Wednesday as I work Saturday morning (when the class takes place) and was frankly in too much pain to go yesterday. I promised Sensei Yuki that I would be in the class today, which makes me face the pain like a woman: with a smile and perfectly done hair. The severely scraped knee helps too but I'm learning to fall gracefully (read: without killing myself) and to do knuckle-push ups.

She says all the names of the moves in fast Japanese. I find it hard to keep up as my Japanese vocabulary is limited to a few words although it thankfully includes 'arigatou' so I can thank her properly. I don't care if that's spelled correctly or not. She says my ki-yah is fantastic; the other students thought I was her while I practiced my blocking in the back. They were doing katas! Haha!

It's already a favorite part of my week. While it's nerve wracking, being the only person there not knowing what's going down, it's also really fun to be taught things. Some of students are only eleven or twelve; one twelve year old girl turned to me before a certain exercise and said, very frankly, "This is going to hurt."

Fabulous.

Here's to weight loss and getting in shape. Updates on the size/weight will be each Wednesday. Let's see what I can get to before July 3rd! That'll be judgement day for sure as sister and I have a bet going down.

Time to get ready, everyone. Until next time!