It's been over a month since I started using the moisturizer Aveeno Positively Radiant. I use morning and night. It has not made my face positively radiant, it has positively done nothing to improve my uneven skin tone. Another disappointment. I guess I will have to just accept my face as it is. I am thankful that I do not have face blemishes that cannot be at least partially covered with makeup. There are worse things in life than a few dark spots on my face. The Estee Lauder Camouflage makeup that I purchased for $36 doesn't do what people say it does either. Sure, it will cover the discoloration if you want to put on several layers of it and look like you have skin made of brown flour. You won't look like you have smooth flawless skin, you'll look like you have layered on a whole container of foundation to cover something up.
I've started working out again and I've heard that's good for your skin, hair and nails so perhaps I'll see some results. Groupon had a deal posted for Jazzercise and I like to dance (when no one is watching) and I saw the Jazzercise place just around the corner from my house so I bought the deal. Yesterday morning I got my workout gear on and had to keep telling myself that I had to go, it was going to be a hard workout but I would survive and I had to go. So, I got my lazy self there and I was right...it WAS hard, very hard. I pleaded in my mind, at one point, for the instructor to please start the cool down but she continued to keep our heart rates up. Oh dear Lord help me. Finally the agony was over and I had survived. The instructor and the woman who worked at the front desk were super nice and a mature woman who was working out introduced herself to me. She was so sweet. She was my inspiration. I'll go back tomorrow for another session and hopefully in a couple weeks I won't feel like crying in the middle of the workout because I'm just not strong enough to keep going. Can we please just march in place for a few minutes while I catch my breath?
You know how unfair it is that you work out and get yourself in decent shape and then you stop working out and overnight you fall out of shape again. Working out is not something you can do for a few months to get yourself looking and feeling good. It's something you have to keep doing for the rest of your life if you want to be in shape. It takes time and pain and motivation but it has to be a change you are willing to make for the long run. How many times have you or someone you know gotten into great shape or lost some weight and then a couple years later they are back to where they started. It's like giving birth to a child, we forget the pain we endured to get in shape and lose the weight. Slowly the weight packs back on and the muscle we built up goes away and we have to start all over again. I vow today that I will not let that happen to me again. I am going to get my butt in shape (literally) and I will not let it sag again!! Who's with me?
