Okay its been a little while longer at the gym and I have to say I am falling into a nice routine. I think once I started and found what really works for me I have started getting into it more. I am still going three days a week kinda a Monday Wednesday Friday thing and it is really working for me. The kids love going to play in the child care room and being on a schedule with the gym is nice cause when we go there are a lot of the same kids are there, so i think they are making friends. Which is great for my oldest boy Logan cause sometimes he has a hard time making friends.
We all know from my previous post I was not doing very well with the gym thing but I really think that it was more than me just not knowing what I was doing but that the last gym membership I had I got after I had Rylee I got it in like May or June and I was so excited about it because I had been begging my husband for one forever and I finally talked him into it. So we talked about it and settled on a new gym that just opened up in our area and lets remember this will be my first membership to a gym ever. So he got it all squared away and I was so excited about it cause it had FREE daycare which if you have shopped around for gyms lately you know that almost no gym has that. So as soon as he got home I jumped in my car and took off to get sexy I was feeling great, a little upset that Jeff did not want to get a membership with me but at the time he was not on a health kick like he is now. So I got there and as soon as I walked in and looked around my feelings kinda changed let me paint a mental picture if you will. Imagine a giant open room like most gyms are one one side your cardio on the other weights and machines sounds fine so far right well let me paint what I saw. On one side a whole bunch of Barbies running on treadmills and on the other side a whole bunch of Kens on steroids I mean where were the people who actually needed to be here I was not that big after Rylee but I felt like a 10 ton whale, but I decided to stay and give it a shot so I started on the Barbie side of the gym jumped on a elliptical and started working after 10 mins and nearly falling off that crazy thing a few times I could not handle it anymore and wanted to quit I was dyeing and of course miss 100 pounds soaking wet next to me had been on the thing for 45 mins and counting I still think its because she did have so much weight to push around. So I shut my machine of quick hoping no one was paying attention that I could barley walk and was out of breath. I decided to go over to try some machines maybe they were more up my alley. I got on the first leg machine and kind of took my time getting all set up so I could take it all in. Looking around I noticed all these guys looked like a mix off Vin diesel, the Rock and Arnold in his prime of course. It was crazy they were throwing around weights like they were light as air, not that say I minded watching much :). But for a mom just starting out and never been in a gym this place was a little over whelming I went back one or two more times tops every time pretty much the same the gym should say when you sign up oh by the way this is a gym for people who dont really need to lose weight they just come for fun. I never really wanted to tell my husband cause he would be like your fine, your beautiful, dont worry about everyone else and what there doing and I know I should feel like that but when your on a treadmill next to playboy Barbie and action movie Ken its kinda hard to think like that.
So being at this gym is kind of awesome, I was so scared that every gym was going to be like that one and that the real people must have a secret society gym where they all worked out at, that I was not really looking foreword to going to another place. But this one is a very diverse crowd and it makes it so much easier to work out when u are not the only chubby mommy riding the bike. Not only in the workout area but they have a pool and when I first went there and saw that I about died, I know my kids and they are actually going to want to go in there, not like mommy who is perfectly fine with just watching other people swim oh know my babies are going to want me to get in a swim suit and walk out of the locker room and get in I did not even own a swim suit just so i could use that as a excuse for why I would never have to do something like this or swim at all for that matter, but my hubby helped me with that one a couple nights after we went and he deiced swimming is a great way to get in shape lets do it he took me to the store where I actually had to get one :( and just a FYI none of the swim suit that are reasonably priced and are flattering for a woman who just gave birth a month ago are even remotely attractive. They are horrible weird patterns that look like something Jeff's 80 year old Grammy has for a set of curtains and colors that are bright as all hell like we want more attention drawn to us and if you dont like Grammy's curtain style or look at me style or even worse a mix of the two you get BLACK yeah BLACK what happened to the normal color pallet people! I mean just cause I am not Bay watch Barbie does not mean that I dont want to look at least half way decent in this thing if i have to be in it. So I picked a black one that was obviously made for a more busty woman I guess they assume if you are a little bigger you have large breasts yeah well not this mama, it was not pretty a black skirt for the bottom and a regular old black top yeah looking HOT now.... But I bought it cause its for the kids but talk about taking one for the team, cant wait till this gym starts working and I cant go back to that store and buy that hot pink suit I saw because buy then I will be screaming look at me and all this hard work. :)
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