Soi my daughter wen to you tube and down loaded some belly dancing instructions.......... i felt so foolish at first, but now i find myself doing some of those steps while i am washing dishes or putteringa round. I am not one to go for outlandish costumes, but they are fun during teh day and toned up my tummy!

anyone else have any off teh wall or alternative exercises than:
yoga, pilates, cross training etc?????

What is the thread to your belly dancing steps? How long did it take you to tone up your stomach and how often did you do it each day? I would love to learn belly dancing, sounds like an interesting technique for one to learn.

I had to google the you tube link, my daughter is not at home for me to ask hera nd its not in the favs list.. sigh.
anyway
this is the link to the first of the belly dancing instruction..........
YouTube - Cassiopeia Belly Dance How To - Umi

thsi sthe first video we saw and in the kitchen we do these while we are cooking! Do not shimmy while serving liquid or holding eggs!
you can go to youtube and type in or copy and paste this and it will take you to all of her videos.
Cassiopeia Belly Dance How To - Umi

This woman is a great teacher.

I do pilates crunches every night. 20 in the morning and 20 before bed while I am watching the news. I never thought it wouod work quickly but between diet and these it didnt take long to drop from a size 18 pants to a 14/16 pants in a few weeks.
julie

Wow, that is great on the inches you have lost. Thanks for the link to your belly dancing moves. The moves look easy, but next time I watch them I am actually going to try the moves instead of watching them. Because I know the moves are not going to be that easy when I start practicing.

at least the umi and next two.....
thge first the umi you just stand theer and rotate your hips but not a full rotation. You just go sidem, front and side.. its a hoot. I font know why it works it just does!
teh second and the shimmy are fun. I use my Ester scraf around my hiups to make the coins jingle...
Its fun..............

so theer i was doing a walkdown on Video game cases and i was just getting antsy looking for titles......
so i was standing with my back against a wall and began doing hiup circles and leg brushes...........
it relieved a lot of the RLS too..........