Yes, I went to the gym here on base today. No, not on my own. lol Ms Williams from upstairs got me to go with her and a SSgt, and, while not looking forward to it, I did go with them. Mostly I've avoided the gym just out of being self-conscious and being around all those skinny Marines, but it really wasn't that bad. Everyone just did their own thing and weren't paying us any attention, or at least if they were we didn't notice.
Anyway, we did 17 minutes on the treadmill, and then we got on the elliptical. Come to find out, I'm not very coordinated, (which really I already knew) because I didn't do all that well on it. The SSgt said I was going backwards. I can't figure out how you can tell if you're backwards or not. At any rate, I only stayed on it for a few minutes (I can see why it would be a good workout....I was tired just after those few minutes!) and then I went to the stationary bicycle and did 2.5 miles on it. All in all I did work up quite a sweat and felt pretty good afterwards. SSgt said next week we're going to do stairs, etc, and I'm like, hey, I'm just starting out and I'm not going to kill myself doing this. I'm doing this at my own pace and do what I want to do.
The one thing I need to do though is put some music on my phone so that I can listen to music while working out, because for me, just staring ahead is boring as heck. Well, they do have tvs you can watch up on the wall, but you need earphones for that, and I didn't bring any. But I would rather listen to music than watch whatever they have on the tv, so I need to get some music on my phone asap.
After we left the gym, Alma and I walked across the street to the PX to get something to eat, though I really wasn't in the mood for food, I wanted a smoothie. I had strawberries in the freezer here at work, along with a blender I had bought a couple of weeks ago just for this purpose, so at the PX I found pre-made strawberry Slim Fast and strawberry yogurt, which I bought and then came back and made my strawberry smoothie. Though the smell of the Slim Fast was rather off-putting, once it was all mixed up with everything else, it tasted pretty darn good and was relatively healthy.
The only bad thing about starting this regime is it is only going to be for a couple of weeks because then we go to California on July 2nd and bringing back Vanessa and Jeanna and Kyla, so I won't start it all back up until August.
But I guess two weeks for now is better than none, so there ya go. Let the workouts begin (again....)
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