Well Zerolove and I finally bit the bullet and joined a gym. We joined Iron Works Fitness. It's on our way home so it lessens the excuses we could have for not going. We talked about it for days before deciding to do it. It's a lot of money when money is hard to come by. We finally agreed that we both need it and would commit to at least 2 days a week, changing at work and going to the gym on our way home. We got the oldest DD to agree to an extra hour of babysitting 2 nights a week and we went on Monday to join up.
Let me tell you. It is so intimidating for a fat person to walk into a gym. It wasn't overly busy Monday night, but most of the people, if not all, looked like they were there just for lack of anything better to do, not because they need to be there. I'm not sure I saw any actual fat. I might have seen one slightly over weight person. The guy we talked to was super super nice and kept talking to us and looking at us like we so would fit in there and we totally could stick to exercising and get healthy. He went over equipment, classes, and such. Well, me being me, I asked him if there were any classes that had actual fat people in them. Cause frankly, I do not want to go into a yoga class with a bunch of sticks and god knows I don't want to join the old people's classes LOL. But I would like to take some clasess just to add something different to keep me interested. He said they didn't have any classes for fat people specifically but that anyone was welcome to join all the classes, but we might want to get our feet in the water before we try that. Okay that's cool.
After we left, apparently the guy was thinking about my question and decided that he wanted to create a program for fat people to get help with nutrition and exercise. So he calls up Zerolove yesterday and discusses it with him. See the guy is a registered nutritionist and decided to create a program centered around teaching people proper nutrion AND exercise. He wants to use us as guinea pigs to create and test the program. He wants to monitor weight loss, measurements, deal with nutritional issues, and then hopefully move into personal trainer time for us. And since we'll be serving as test subjects, we'll get the nutritional help for free. Which is absolutely awesome, nutritionist are expensive and not covered by insurance. I'm excited and scared at the same time. But, if I do it, and it is successful, it will help others to lose weight and get healthy.
Biggest Loser last night was interesting. I cannot believe they did not vote off Joelle. The only thing I can figure is they felt she was the least threat in the game. Her and Carla going at it was funny but it really brings home the point that in order to change your life and lose weight, you have to be willing and ready to give it 100%. Otherwise you are just going through the motions. And if you're just going through the motions...what's the point right? You're just wasting your time and everyone that is trying to help you's time. So, I say the lesson last night is, if you're not ready to give it 100%, go home. Stop wasting time.
I conclude today with, I am a MF'in PRINCESS! It is important to remind yourself every day how great you are. If you don't, who else will?
Let me tell you. It is so intimidating for a fat person to walk into a gym. It wasn't overly busy Monday night, but most of the people, if not all, looked like they were there just for lack of anything better to do, not because they need to be there. I'm not sure I saw any actual fat. I might have seen one slightly over weight person. The guy we talked to was super super nice and kept talking to us and looking at us like we so would fit in there and we totally could stick to exercising and get healthy. He went over equipment, classes, and such. Well, me being me, I asked him if there were any classes that had actual fat people in them. Cause frankly, I do not want to go into a yoga class with a bunch of sticks and god knows I don't want to join the old people's classes LOL. But I would like to take some clasess just to add something different to keep me interested. He said they didn't have any classes for fat people specifically but that anyone was welcome to join all the classes, but we might want to get our feet in the water before we try that. Okay that's cool.
After we left, apparently the guy was thinking about my question and decided that he wanted to create a program for fat people to get help with nutrition and exercise. So he calls up Zerolove yesterday and discusses it with him. See the guy is a registered nutritionist and decided to create a program centered around teaching people proper nutrion AND exercise. He wants to use us as guinea pigs to create and test the program. He wants to monitor weight loss, measurements, deal with nutritional issues, and then hopefully move into personal trainer time for us. And since we'll be serving as test subjects, we'll get the nutritional help for free. Which is absolutely awesome, nutritionist are expensive and not covered by insurance. I'm excited and scared at the same time. But, if I do it, and it is successful, it will help others to lose weight and get healthy.
Biggest Loser last night was interesting. I cannot believe they did not vote off Joelle. The only thing I can figure is they felt she was the least threat in the game. Her and Carla going at it was funny but it really brings home the point that in order to change your life and lose weight, you have to be willing and ready to give it 100%. Otherwise you are just going through the motions. And if you're just going through the motions...what's the point right? You're just wasting your time and everyone that is trying to help you's time. So, I say the lesson last night is, if you're not ready to give it 100%, go home. Stop wasting time.
I conclude today with, I am a MF'in PRINCESS! It is important to remind yourself every day how great you are. If you don't, who else will?
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