Starting a New…

You know the type, they are always at the gym or they run 5 miles a day or they are on perpetual diets. They look fantastic, wear sexy clothes and feel great.

I’m not one of those people. I’ve always been thin. I remember when I graduated from High School I weighed 98 pounds. Breaking 100 was nearly impossible but as I got older, the pounds easily came on…

Now I’m 30 something… Okay, Okay, 40 something and the weight just caught up to me. I’m 15 pounds over my goal weight and I need to do something. So, I joined New York Sports Club.

I thought this was a relevant blog post for all of you out there trying to loose a few pounds. Let’s chat together and help motivate each other to do this…. I’m going to write about my workouts from time to time and would love your feedback or your experiences. So here goes…

My first day was on Friday. I sat with Dom, my new personal trainer, for nearly an hour talking about nutrition and exercise. Okay, I was now pumped and ready to work out. So we scheduled an appointment for the following day – Saturday.

I was at the gym at 8 am, ready to go. Before Dom came down to get me, he had told me the prior day that I should warm up on the treadmill, Precor machine or the stationery bike. I walked into the gym expecting to see the beautiful, thin people working out. But to my surprise, there were a lot of older people. People my parents age and older were there working out!

Dom came down to get me. We walked up the stairs to the weight room. He showed me the equipment that we were going to train on and I worked out for an hour. Okay, I thought, I can do this.

Everything seemed so hard, but I was determined to work it through. (I got to loose 15 pounds…. I kept thinking to myself.)

When the session was over, I came home and crashed. I was out for about 2 hours in a deep, deep sleep. When I woke up, I told myself that I can do this…

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