Day 1: "I have muscles there?"

1 day down... 58 days till DisneyWorld!

So, First impressions of this whole gym thing:

Kendra is the name of my Trainer, she's tiny, not only thin but short, I spent the entire meeting looking down at her standing at 5'5 unless I was seated (I never have felt more like Gwap from Harry Potter in my entire life... (there's a first time for everything I suppose!) Despite her unfortunate genetic lottery outcome, she's peppy and eager to get me excited. Which is nice but weird to, because at this point I don't know anything at all about her and having a complete stranger believe in me loosing weight and feeling better is a strange concept to me.

The hour for training had come and I had psyched myself up all day at work. Dreading it... today was initial weigh-in and measuring... and my personal body image has never been a bright one, more like dingy gray. However... I didn't cry which is a major win for me. Take that Gym-stigma! HA!

Once the measurements were taken and my body fat% calculated we walked out into the sea of fitness equipment and padded workout mats. Totally out of my element here... People working out all around me, and me trying to decide if anyone was looking at me in my tight 2X tee shirt, which was the only clean tee I had... Yikes... nobody says anything, as Kendra said, everyone in the gym are concerned with how they look and what their doing... If someone was looking I hope they enjoyed the show... Because, oh ho ho... it was probably some kind of theater.

So... We approach the weight and metal jungle. (have never set foot in a gym I may remind you). Kendra walks me through a couple exercises: Planking, KettleBell and yes, my high school nightmare... the pushup. (pause now to cry for me, I really hate pushups! Like the kind of hate you reserve for only the lowest parts of outer darkness - that kind of hate)

Okay... the pushups weren't too bad, Kendra, as I said is super peppy!

Then a few machines later I start to discover burning, yup... There are muscles in my body I've never attempted to bring to life, to call into action, nope, never considered it, and frankly because they don't and haven't ever been called on before, they complained. like me getting up early on a Saturday kind of complaining. Feeling the Burn!

It's day one, and I didn't do the full hour that I'll be doing tomorrow. Yay! I hope I can do this... Praying I can do this... At least it's not like I'm training to run a marathon or anything, because those peeps are CAT LADY CRAZY!



One day down. I guess I'll just have to see how this thing goes, but I'm committed... at least I'm pretty sure I am!