My Hooping Journey and Gratitude Journal

I recently met some really cool folks in Tokyo through hooping and am learning some fun stuff with a hula hoop. Firstly about a month ago i went to a hoop beginners and beyond class and got to get in on some spinning action with the wonderful supportive and talented Deanne from Hooplovers. It has been years since i did any kind of hooping and thought that it would be a very fun and cool way of doing some exercise without thinking of being exercise as i hate it! Well now you could say i am pretty hooked. It's a great workout for not doing much it seems except have a laugh and learn new tricks. Starting on August 1 for summer we are doing this great thing called hoopboot camp - 30 days of exercise, meditation, eating well and generally feeling great. It consists of little daily thoughts and inspirations, vids on hooping tips and routines, and just general support and sharing on-line. www.hooplovers.ning.com At the beginning we started with some goals for the 30 day, here are mine "I am a newcomer to spinning and am loving it and here are my goals for the 30 day Hoop Boot Camp..... ! overall develop my self confidence and ultimately put together a little routine and hoop in front of people without blushing and running to hide, am way too shy ! love to learn, and be great at, about four new tricks ! hoop in the opposite direction with no problems and one new trick in that direction ! hoop everyday day, no exceptions, for 30 minutes minimum enjoying the feeling and movement and staying in the now ! ride my pushbike everywhere ! have jotted down my measurements and to shift 3-4cms ! weightloss - will be happy with anything as a kickstart but 5kgs ! decrease alcohol intake ! and mainly to just get better at my hooping and have a laugh and some fun good luck everybody jojo xx" As a part of this we are also doing a gratitude journal daily to help remember the good things in life, i thought i would keep mine on here also. i have been offline as our lovely computer kept saying no! its great to catch up and so some thoughts from a few days "today grateful that we are back online also grateful for having the computer off and being away from it meeting new people and practising my (small amount of) new language skills the warm breezes - i adore summer and the hot humidness it brings pushbiking in the rain to get our fruit n veg on sunday discovering new music with a stomping beat i love a new hoop which is heavier and makes me work harder for my new cookbook to learn about asian spices and cooking - chickpea curry for dinner... for weekend with my husband to hang out in tokyo so grateful for bootcamp thanks so much! xx" Now i just have to get Ace motivated and I can't wait to see how things go, if i stick to my goals and get hooping! Love jojo xx