Mama’s Got a New Pair of Shoes!

 

This week’s Mamavation Monday asks:

When was the last time you got new workout shoes?  What do you use them for?

And I got to thinking about some recent purchases.  I think somewhere along the last 15 years, I lost my girly-ness.  I don’t know how it happened and I’m sure I would hate the psychology of exploring what was behind it, but what’s important is that last year I purchased myself a brand new pair of work out shoes for a Zumba class I had coming up. And I’m not sure if I’d purchased anything with the color pink on it for myself in decades.

I had a pair of Sketcher Shape Up’s that I loved for walking, but knew the platform on them would be detrimental to Zumba, so I opted for this pair that I ended up loving for walking & everything in between. Love the air soles, even if they make a bit of a weird noise at times.  I have covered a lot of ground with these bad boys:  my first two 5k’s, miles and miles of walking in my hometown, hiking while camping and just sporting them with jeans when I know I’ll be doing a lot of walking. 

These have single-handedly been the most valuable piece of fitness equipment I own.

And every couple of years, I have to make a new funky shoe purchase.  I have always had at least 1 pair of funky shoes I love.  I’ve worn a lot of low and high top Converses.  Recently, I had these awesome black & floral printed, slip-on Vans that I wore into the ground during the elections last fall when I did a lot of walking.  So, this year they were replaced with these.  One of my BFF’s was like, “What is that, velcro?!” Yep, three whole fun straps!

Most significantly, and this is where the losing my girly-ness comes into play, is that I picked up these three awesome pairs of heels to replace no pairs of heels in my wardrobe.  I did have a pair of black wedges I’ve worn for 3-4 years, but nothing fun. 

The red ones are fun, I actually had someone lean over at a conference as we were getting ready to switch sessions and touch them.  “Just wanted to feel those!”  And the black ones are the most comfortable pair of shoes I’ve ever worn, I highly recommend Aerosoles.

I know so many women with shoe fetishes and pairs upon pairs of shoes.  But, in my late 20’s I cleaned out my closet at one point and then never replaced anything.  So, this was pretty significant for me and kind of fun to explore my girly-ness again.

By the way, I’m participating in the #2WeekChallenge!  It’s kicking my a$$ and I’m going to reserve my actual weight loss for the end of the 2 weeks.  My clothes are already fitting better after 5 days!

“This post is sponsored by Attune Foods and I’m writing this to be entered into a giveaway hosted by Mamavation – a community dedicated to obesity prevention & weight loss for women“