It's finally rainy season in LA, which means that I get my furry scarf and Peruvian beanie out for the next 3 months and start sporting what I call my "winter escorting" fashions when I show up at your door all bundled up like I live in the East Coast or something! We Angelenos do think it is freezing when it drops below 60 and my outfits reflect that, but I am not only cute, but warm AND comfortable! I love the cold and rain because that brings the snow and since I am also an avid snowboarder I get EXCITED about future snowboard trips around this time of year. I feel like there are only 5 hours of daylight after I wake up and then it's time to draw the curtains down and bring on the NIGHT already! My fitness and weight loss journey has continued stronger than EVER. I am taking cross fit, which has helped me triumph mentally and physically time and time again through the months so I'm not bored out of my mind jumping rope every day! Recently, in cross fit, I learned how to correctly climb a 25 foot rope to the ceiling! I didn't think that I would be able to climb the rope even once but with the technique that they teach you, you can do it much more effortlessly than you would think without tiring out your arm muscles. I looked down from the ceiling with a rope draped between my legs and felt like Sheena, Queen of the jungle. It was a phenomenal feeling! In cross fit competitons they will have 10 rope climbs in a row, so they had to come up with a way to do it fast and efficiently. I became a member at the Gold's gym near my house and I regularly ride my bike to go swim laps and soak in the hot tub once a week in addition to my other exercise activities 5 times a week. I LOVE riding my bike still and I am now up to a maximum of 18 miles a day, steadily climbing towards no goal in particular except constant improvement. It is really amazing to rediscover Los Angeles on a bicycle! I feel fearless and free when I am riding my bike. I have even hit up a business traveler jogging around the downtown Marriot! He was lost and asked me if I knew how to get back to the Marriot hotel. I said I knew excactly how to get back and wondered if he would like some company. I never work outdoors so doing this was very bold of me, I thought. I was actually on my way on my bike to see a client so I couldn't just follow him back to the hotel unfortunately and we never connected again. I have more than once ridden my bike to local escort dates on my regular trek to the gym to workout or just being out on my bike. It totally turns me on that I get to be so very ECOSEXUAL like my heroine Annie Sprinkle, and provide a gas saving way to do my work that helps the client AND the environment ;) Riding my bike makes me roll into your place all sweaty but you get to watch me take a shower before we get started.
Am I afraid? Not at all! Riding a bike, especially in traffic gridlocked LA is a rebel activity I suppose, because people think you are crazy for some reason if you do it, kind of like doing outcall escorting dates at the crack of dawn without a driver? Exactly! I have really proved that both activities are not as dangerous to one's health and that the benefits outweigh the risks in my life. I might have a very good chance of being hit by a car while riding my bike but I have also ALWAYS refused to live my life in FEAR! My favorite ride so far has to be riding form downtown to Silverlake because for 9 miles to get home I get to coast all the way down hill! It is really one of the simple joys in my life lately. I finally got a professional photographer to shoot some sexy post weight loss photos of me recently. I feel comfortable saying that I have lost a total of 20 lbs since March when I started trying to lose weight. I step on the scale at all times of the day but it seems like the heaviest I would weigh would be after my last meal of the day which I still have to shake my head in disbelief when I see the number 125. My fat percentage is 23%, but my nutritionist and I are aiming to continue to make my body improve. The new goal is fat percentage 21% and weight at 123 lbs, which is 2 lbs away. I have been cheating on my diet a lot, since I feel like I've already gotten to my goal and over my goal but I have to remember that one of my goals is to make money modelling and acting with this new body! When I sit down, I still have a belly even though I have lost 20 lbs, but when I STAND UP, I now have a 4 pack! So as long as the photo shoots are standing ones, I could definitely stand a good chance as a fitness model. I abstained from drinking alcohol recently for a total of 5 weeks. It was for the weight loss and it was for my own self will. Like diet and exercise, I will abstain each year from various things that I think need to be subtracted occasionally just to experience life without and remember what that feeling truly is like. I abstain from marijuana for a period usually every year and this was the first time I did it in a concentrated effort with alcohol for such a long time. I believe that I have given up beer for good, but social drinking entirely is not something that I was willing to give up yet, although the 5 week experiment was very interesting. I found that meeting people in bars, going to funerals, art openings and more required me to abstain from free social beverages that I would have indulged in in my past.
So, How did I start drinking again after 5 weeks? I didn't know how long my alcohol free period was going to last but I knew that when I drank again it would be a great reason! I was called to Venice by 2 guys, handsome, successful partying at 4:30am. They offered me a glass of red wine and i leaped off the wagon into their laps, lapping up every single drop of red wine from my glass to kick off the next couple of hours debauchery all over couches this furniture designer had made himself! I held up the large decadent crystal goblet and looked in anticipation at these two handsome gentlemen looking at me, and said with a smile,"Oh, I will definitely have a glass with these two C*&@S! Cheers!" We didn't get the furniture too messy. It was one of those dates that I knew was a one time adventure that I needed to enjoy to the fullest while I was there, because I knew my text to one of them which read,"You guys were AWESOME! CALL ME AGAIN! xoxoxo with a happy face would predictably be ignored. Ahh, It just goes to show you the minutes of the escort dates that both you and I will sometimes participate in need to be relished as if they are never to be repeated again! It is holiday time already next week and that means more challenges for my diet and weight loss! Hopefully, your family time is crazier than mine and you can call me and RELEASE all frustrations and worries in a chakra balancing body rub session after this weekend is all over! I'll be making the drive up to the SF Bay Area but back on Sunday in Los Angeles.
