You want me to do what?

Okay - I tried one of the Belly Dancing DVDs that I bought:

Perfect Hips - For the absolute beginner

I was thinking I would qualify as the absolute beginner, but I forgot that I'm still fat, so I'm an absolute fat beginner, which is worse than an absolute beginner. My body is not designed to move the way this lady wants me to. LOL

In general, a lot of the moves were okay, but I have a major disconnect in my brain about moving my rib cage. I can't do it. For this one move, you have to do a hip bump with a glule squeeze to make it POP, and then it goes into this thing where you move your rib cage from side to side, without using your shoulders or anything. HUH? I just stood there trying to will my rib cage to move, but it wasn't happening. I need to learn more about this.

I had trouble with one of the stretches too. You are supposed to sit on the ground and fold your left leg in toward your right side, and fold your right leg in toward your left side, so that your right knee is directly above your left knee. I'm thankful I can sit Indian style on the floor - that's about as far as I go! My legs are still too meaty to arrange them in that manner. Oh well - I'll keep trying!

I ended up doing 30 minutes of the DVD. It's about an hour or so total in length, but I'm going to the gym tonight, and my legs and knees were getting sore, so I called it a day for the belly. I think it's going to be a good work out though!