Gettin' Fit!

After all of the honesty shared with me by Allyson and realizing I need to drop several pounds, I've decided to really get serious about losing weight.

My coworkers, Pam and Reuben, and I have started a 12 week weight loss challenge.  Because we are all broke, the winner gets the "title" of "Biggest Loser".  To us.....those are some pretty "heavy" bragging rights (no pun intended). 

I joined the YMCA here in town because 1 they have showers and 2 they don't have any contracts.  I've been a member of McLeod Health and Fitness and Fitness World before,and while I enjoyed both of them, they lacked one of the two above.  I've never really been a fitness person.

Right after Thomas and I got married, I decided to go because I thought I was getting fat (if I could only be that size again).  I would get up early in the morning and go.  I really enjoyed going on Monday, Wednesday and Friday because that's when all the heart patients from the hospital would go.  I'd purposely get on a machine beside them to do cardio because I knew I would feel like I was getting a "good workout" because I was going faster then them.  LOL!  Then I got pregnant with Allyson and that was the end of the McLeod gym membership for me.

Last year I joined Fitness World in Florence and I loved it except they didn't have showers at the Ladies Only gym.  This was not good as most of the time I could only go workout on my lunch break.  I'd get back to work and warn those around me not to get too close for fear that their nose would probably shrivel up and fall off.

Being the biggest I've ever been in my life (except when I was about to deliver Triston), I decided to join the YMCA.  My first workout was going to be yesterday.  Didn't go to well. 

Despite the fact that my pants were so tight my legs were turning purple, I get there and all of the fitness gurus are there training.  Made me feel uncomfortable, but I jump on an elliptical anyway.  Then, I look up and low and behold someone who I use to work with is there who happens to probably be .5% body fat.  So then I get reallllllyyyyy uncomfortable because I remember having a specific conversation that ellipticals are for old people and I needed to be on a treadmill.  I look around and guess who's on ellipticals......OLD PEOPLE!  You got it.  So after 2 minutes, I get off the elliptical and jump on the treadmill.  Then get really uncomfortable because I can see my butt in the mirror and it looks like my cheeks are fighting to push each other out of the way.  So....I get off the treadmill and long story short, I leave the gym.  Moral of this story.......don't go to the gym in the afternoon when all the really fit people are there until I lose some weight.

Today was a different story.  I went to the gym at 11:30 and did a little over 2 miles on the elliptical in 30 minutes and burned about 300 calories.  Plus, there wasn't a lot of people there.  I was back in with my favorite group of people to work out with.......the old people.

Below is a picture of me and my two co-workers who are doing the weight loss challenge.  We took this picture last year at the Rockin' on the Point Event in Charleston that our bank sponsored.  This was a shot we took in the photobooth.