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Butt Wiggle Diet Went on Vacation
Filed Under Melodee's Musings, Weight Loss
As I posted earlier, I’ve lost 15 pounds on the Butt Wiggle Diet. (Woo hoo!) If you’re new to my blog, the Butt Wiggle Diet is a specialized routine I have created for Virtual Assistants – and anyone else who sits on their duff all day long. It consists of rock music, a chair, and lots of butt wigglin’ to the beat! OK – so you also need to track your calories in and out (very easy to do with fitday.com) but the butt wigglin’ is the most important part.
Unfortunately, I went on vacation for two weeks and kinda forgot to practice my butt wigglin’ so I gained back a few pounds. Hey! I “deserved” to eat whatever I wanted – I was on vacation!
Fortunately, I lost them again once I got home and back into my chair. (Double Woo hoo!)
Why is it soooo difficult to lose a pound and soooo easy to gain it?? What was Mother Nature thinking anyway??
If you’re looking for more exercises to do at your desk, Sahar of Fat Fight TV provided Problogger with some great tips here.
If you’re on the Butt Wiggle Diet, I hope it’s working for you. Just don’t forget to get your wigglin’ in every day, even if you’re on vacation 
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Butt Wiggle Diet Update!
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It’s 15 down and 10 to go! Pounds, that is.
The Butt Wiggle Diet is still working. (See how skinny the butt is looking?) And it’s all due to Fitday.com. And exercising has helped a bit, too
What’s your favorite exercise DVD, Melodee?
Great question, 
Daisy. (She’s the voice in my head. Hmmm, wonder why her name is the same as my mother’s?)
My favorite DVD for the first exercise day of the week (usually Monday, or Tuesday, sometimes Friday) is Leslie Sansone’s 5-mile Walk at Home. Now, I don’t do the whole 5 miles (that would be crazy!) but I do the 3-mile with weights option which is 2-miles of fast walking and then 1 slow mile with light weights. OK, I don’t do the last mile, but the first 2 miles really give me a nice morning wake-up.
The best part of this DVD is the “Music Only” option. Leslie is a sweetheart, but listening to her pep talk more than 20 times is more than I can take. This way I can just watch what she’s doing and listen to the music. I think all exercise DVDs should come with that option. I also love the Prevention exercise DVDs.
Daisy: You’re doing more exercise than that – right?
Well, when you live in Wisconsin there’s always snow shoveling and shivering to increase the calorie burn. And, don’t forget to keep your butt wiggling in your chair while you’re listening to some rockin’ music!
I’m always looking for tips on making this weight loss journey palatable so please leave a comment with your favorites. I’d especially like to know how you work chocolate into your weight loss plans. (I’ve discovered Swiss Miss Sensible Sweets Fat Free Hot Chocolate – only 50 calories!)
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Butt Wiggle Weight Loss Program
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I’ve gotten a number of emails about my butt wiggle weight loss post (well, maybe 1 email) so I thought I’d “flesh out” the program, so to speak.
Virtual Assistants tend to sit on a chair in front of the computers, A LOT. This leads to a condition known as “VAST”, or Virtual Assistant Sluggish Tush. If your butt is numb when you finally get out of your chair, you’re probably a VAST victim.
If you’re one of those amazingly in shape VAs who sit on a balance ball while you work (and probably does bicep curls with your laptop while waiting for a report to print), you can ignore this post. You have other problems that I won’t be discussing in this post.
This post is for those of us who can sit for hours moving only our fingers on the keyboard, occasionally reaching for a file, or a doughnut. Your numb butt is calling out for help!
Here’s what you do:
- Turn on some rockin’ tunes.
- Start your shoulders moving up and down (ala Tina Turner) to the beat if you can manage it, or by your own beat – no-one’s watching
- Wiggle your butt in the chair. Start slowly and gently to begin with – you don’t want throw out your back from the unaccustomed movement.
- Now combine the shoulder shrug with the butt wiggle.
- Rev up both movements until you’re in danger of falling out of your chair.
That’s it! You’re doing the Butt Wiggle Weight Loss Program. Do this for 10 songs throughout every day and I’ll guarantee you’ll have more energy, less numb butt, and no more VAST!
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VA Weight Loss Solution
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As a VA you know what it’s like to be at home, perhaps by yourself, sitting at your desk and working hard day after day…
It can get kind of quiet sometimes. Now, I enjoy quiet as much as the next person, but sometimes it’s just TOO quiet. When that happens, I listen to some great music. I usually turn on my (low-tech) radio and listen to Charlie (105.1 FM). They say they “play everything” and they get pretty close, but I called in asking for Glenn Miller’s “In the Mood”, and so far I haven’t heard them play it I’m going to try “Little Diesel Drivin’ Devil”, but I doubt if they’ll play that, either.
Anyway, besides getting you ‘in the mood’ to work, listening to music can help you burn calories. Well, just listening won’t burn many calories, but with the right music you can lose weight doing the shoulder and butt wiggle. Really! You know – when a great song starts playing (the one you give a 95 cause it has a great beat and it’s good to dance to – for those American Bandstand boomers) and your shoulders and butt start wiggling? You are burning extra calories, my friend. It’s even been scientifically proven.
Add in a little line dancing when they play “Boot Scootin’ Boogie” and you’re on your way to losing a dress size!
Just don’t try this with classical music, cause that stuff will put you to sleep right on your keyboard…
What kind of music do you listen to while working? (And how many calories does it burn an hour?)
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