Ok, so I'm in this mode of really wanting to see the weight start coming back off, so I'm trying new things.
I figure - hell, I can touch my toes now. I bet I can do step aerobics!
hahahahahahaha.
It must have been funny watching me try to keep up in that class.
I'm just going to blame it on losing my sense of balance and my center of gravity since losing so much weight.
That happens, right?
That just has to be the reason I stumbled around in that class, practically tripping over myself, not to mention unable to keep up with the pace or remember the routine.
But so what. I did it anyway. I took that class and I kept moving for 30 minutes even when I wasn't moving the same direction anyone else was.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Toe-curling revelation
So yesterday I went to the gym to do a third and final workout with the trainer, who was going to teach me more resistance exercises, then give me a recommendation for what to do when I'm there. You know, put me on a Program.
He didn't show.
Well, he did, but an hour later.
But that's not the point.
I was doing a step routine he had told me earlier to do.
I did twice as many as he suggested, needing a hard workout. After that, though, i felt a need to stretch my lower back and legs. So i just bent over from the waist and reached for the ground.
Whoa.
Wait a minute. What was that?
That was my fingers, touching my toes. Easily. Did i really do that with my legs straight, no bending the knees.
Yep. I did.
No way! So I did it again.
And I just couldn't help myself. The tears started flowing. I felt like an idiot crying there in the gym, in front of all the buff guys with massive amounts of muscle hefting massive amounts of weight.
So why the tears? Because I could never do that before, not even in junior high. Not even at 11 and 12 years old. I was so overweight, so obese, and so out of shape that that just didn't happen.
And I couldn't help but flash back to those days in gym class in 7th and 8th grades when we had to do stretching exercises every day, and I was so embarrassed because I couldn't even come close to touching my toes, standing up, or even bending over while sitting on the floor, legs out in front of me.
And now, thanks to weight loss surgery, gastric bypass (RNY), specifically, and losing more than 100 pounds, I can touch my toes!
Now that's what we call a woo-hoo moment!
He didn't show.
Well, he did, but an hour later.
But that's not the point.
I was doing a step routine he had told me earlier to do.
I did twice as many as he suggested, needing a hard workout. After that, though, i felt a need to stretch my lower back and legs. So i just bent over from the waist and reached for the ground.
Whoa.
Wait a minute. What was that?
That was my fingers, touching my toes. Easily. Did i really do that with my legs straight, no bending the knees.
Yep. I did.
No way! So I did it again.
And I just couldn't help myself. The tears started flowing. I felt like an idiot crying there in the gym, in front of all the buff guys with massive amounts of muscle hefting massive amounts of weight.
So why the tears? Because I could never do that before, not even in junior high. Not even at 11 and 12 years old. I was so overweight, so obese, and so out of shape that that just didn't happen.
And I couldn't help but flash back to those days in gym class in 7th and 8th grades when we had to do stretching exercises every day, and I was so embarrassed because I couldn't even come close to touching my toes, standing up, or even bending over while sitting on the floor, legs out in front of me.
And now, thanks to weight loss surgery, gastric bypass (RNY), specifically, and losing more than 100 pounds, I can touch my toes!
Now that's what we call a woo-hoo moment!
Monday, June 22, 2009
New Career
Well I'm headed out this morning to talk with some folks at a local school about perhaps training in radiology. I'm also considering a career change to nursing.
Seems there isn't much available out there for us former journalists, and there are more and more of us out there every day competing for those jobs, with so many newspapers closing, or laying off staff.
Seems there isn't much available out there for us former journalists, and there are more and more of us out there every day competing for those jobs, with so many newspapers closing, or laying off staff.
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