The Journey Begins
After weeks (or maybe even months) about thinking how out of shape I am (and getting more and more out of shape the longer I thought about it and the less I did), today I joined the YMCA and started healthier eating. I was supposed to start yesterday, but I’ve been having some severe pain in my sides when I wake up; it basically hurts to breath. In fact, I woke up this morning with the same pains, but after doing laundry and cleaning the apartment from top to bottom I felt mostly fine so decided that the time to start was today.
I got to the Y at about 2:30. For some reason, I was very nervous. As I looked at the outside of the building, I saw a window which looked into what I thought was the cardio room. It was so small and pathetic looking that I almost turned the car around. And then I spotted people on cardio machines in another room and decided to go in — thank God! The room I had been looking in was the “stretching room.” I think it’s where the old machines go before they are taken out. The actual cardio room is AMAZING. They have great cardio machines with TVs on all of them, and weight machines that are connected to a system called FitLinxx which can track your weight training and cardio (I think). I have to have a training session on the program which I hope to do next week. The Y also has a pool and free classes with the membership. Jason and I signed up together so I hope, in addition to the goal to lose weight/get in shape and the motivation of the monthly payment he’ll be even more motivation.
The workout today was 26 minutes on the treadmill (for a little over 2 miles, which although pretty slow was better than I expected). I also did 5 minutes on an elliptical (that was really hard! I used to be amazing on the elliptical….hmmm) and 5:41 on the bike (I did the Fitness Test. It said 24 after I did it. I have NO idea what that means though so that was somewhat pointless I suppose). Tomorrow I’m going to do some cardio and weight training and I’m hoping Jason goes with me!
Oh and I weighed myself…it was NOT pretty.
My diet plan is going to be strictly calorie counting; it’s the only thing in the past that I have had success with it and I like the freedom it gives me. I need to (I like to think of this as less of a restriction and more of a goal; that’s why this is need to and not allowed to) eat around 1500 to 1800 calories, and really I should be aiming for the high end of that.
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