But Everyone Else is Doing it... (weight loss and joining a gym)

[aldersprig]

Hello and happy Saturday!

I confess, "everyone else is doing it" is a very strong motivator for me to not do something: dye my hair red, even when I wanted to. Wear something fashionable. Start weight loss programs in January.

On the other hand, I really want to lose weight and get in better shape. So I've started - technically in December - back onto Weight Watchers.

(Because I'm like that, I'm still using the old "fiber and fat" Points program, because I know it, it works, and I have all the stuff. (Fiber makes stuff cost less "points;" fat makes it cost more.))

And I joined a gym! This was tricky for me, because I kept getting nervous and finding reasons to stall and not go. It's a tiny gym, but it's less than 10 minutes away, it's all-hours access, and it has the machines I want, most specifically an elliptical and a recumbent bike (I'll worry about weights later).

I love it. I love getting all sweaty and out of breath. I love the feeling that I'm actually burning calories. I love the feeling in my muscles the next day that means I'm doing something right. I love it.

Now to figure out the weight machines so I can start toning, too...

So, what are you doing nicely for yourself this year?

Comments

[thnidu]

I'm going to start up again at the gym at UNIVERSITY where I work. But this time I'm not going to use any kind of schedule, target, program, etc., except "Go at least 3 times a week at the start". That's because I think that trying to follow such structures is what has made me fall out of them, so to speak. I'm taking the advice of my bicoastal "Country Cuzin Luke", whom I saw for the first time in several years last week up circa Boston.

[aldersprig]

Different personalities: If I don't have systems, I don't do things

On the other hand, as far as the gym goes, I'm not doing much more than "go three times a week and do at least as much as last time."

[thnidu]

Oh, sure, I wasn't suggesting you <voice=Sinatra>do it My Way</voice>.

[aldersprig]

*nodsnods* Sorry, lack of tone of voice. I understood, just sharing differences.

Good luck with your gymming.

[clare_dragonfly]

Yaaaay! :D And good luck with the weight machines! There is such a feeling of accomplishment with weights, at least to me. I love it when I get to go up a notch.

I'm doing more directed fiction-writing study this year--more directed than "write and hope I get better," that is. I don't know if that counts... XD

[aldersprig]

I'd say that counts!!

I remember that fun-ache thing It's been so looong though and there's people there.