Fitness I Want

I am on my 4th week of gym activities. I religiously follow the thrice a week visit in a membership club, Fitness First in SM Pampanga. I have my personal trainer, a registered physical therapist in the name of Elai. She's 21 years old and she drains my energy to the a maximum. Last year, I vowed to give priority to my health for quite a number of reasons. I am not getting any younger,with the prevalence of medical illnesses occurring to younger people, I need to do something. In Nursing, we know so well and we teach this to our students, promotion of health is the key. Moreover, the stubborn familial predisposition to the dreaded cancer appears sporadically. 

Another reason is my obsession with food of any kind. I am very preoccupied and head over heels in love with anything edible.My sweeth tooth neither helps me to acquire a slim figure. Chocolates are permanent fixtures in our fridge. Rice I can't imagine giving away.I eat every two hours. For lack of decent justice why I want to chew always, I sometimes blame it to possibly, unresolved Oral stage of Freud. Food is true love. I have a strong and loyal relationship with it. Cholesterol level once zoomed high, I thought I'd die of infarction,

I wanna wear tight-hugging dresses without having to succumb to the discomfort of girdles.  Bikinis under the sun without the bulges.It has been a long wish of mine to have flat tummy and toned arms, coz ever since my triceps are flabby. One more thing, I wanna maintain my happiness. It is a proven fact that exercise releases a happy neurotransmitter, endorphins. Learned this first from the movie, Legally Blonde.:)

For a lazy girl like me accustomed to sedentary lifestyle, it was not an easy start. Elai had to push me at her best tactic,she still does. I fight with her but she keeps her ground. With the cardio warm up, I felt like the world was spinning. I was catching my breath with only 5 minutes of moving my legs. The core programs were torture. Muscles ache and glucose disappear. I almost always feel sleepy head after each session. 

It is a long way to go. I know I am barely there.I am determined however to continue with this "body torture" because now more than ever, I am convinced of the saying, No pain, no gain. 

I will tell more about this challenge in the next blogs. Hopefully, positive changes will be written then.:)

Dream. Move. Sweat.