Weigh In and NSV

Today I am 169.2.  Back out of the 170s, woohoo!  At the gym this morning, during power hour, I was able to do the jumps in between the double burpees.  Yep, I am a total rockstar!  Things like that are so much more important to me than the number on the scale.  It's just a number.  What should gravity's action have to do with my happiness with myself?  It's silly.  Yes, I have lost 75.8 pounds.  It is much more important to me that I can do 2 hours of zumba non-stop now when I could barely walk 15 minutes before.  I can do like 100 squats with 45 pounds on my back.  I can do push-ups.  I can do burpees and jump between them. I have lost 50.75 inches total. I have gone down more than 22.4% body fat, not really sure on that one because I didn't check it until about 2 months in and haven't checked it since April (darn broken machine). I have gone down 13.9 BMI points.  I have dropped my glucose levels from diabetic to normal.  I have dropped my cholesterol to healthy numbers.  I have lowered my blood pressure to a healthy score.  All of those things are so much more important to me than a silly number on the scale.

Zumba and Weight Lifting Woes

I have become a zumba addict and a weight lifting addict.  I think these are very good addictions and do not plan to try to recover from it.  I recently discovered that I can now wear zumba clothes.  I fit into zumba clothes! Zumba clothes run kinda small, so I was not expecting to be able to fit into them yet.  I bought this outfit as something to work toward.  It is an XL (they go up to XXL).  I'm very happy about being able to wear zumba clothes now, but now I have trouble.  My normal zumba class has been canceled and will probably not resume until June.  With it goes my weight lifting (body pump style) class.  I am annoyed to no end.  The contracting company that pays for the class instructors at the base gym used money that was supposed to be for them to pay for other things (refs for games and such) and now they are out of instructor money until the new contracts start June 1.    We asked the instructor if we could pay her and she said that she was told that if she let us do that she would be breaching her contract.  Excuse me?  They already did that by not paying her, how can they tell her that she can't let us pay her?  I have a place I can go to for zumba, but I will have to pay for classes and it won't be my regular teacher.  I also have the Wii zumba game, but while it is fun, that is really not the same.  Plus, I have no way to replace my weight lifting class. The instructor was sweet enough to give me the CD with the class playlist on it and I can use the weights, but it still won't be the same thing.  I need her!  I'm pissed off and very worried that I will lose some of the progress that I have made.