Dear Readers, I am so sorry for not writing for so long. I have been working out, but time has been going quickly. Well my great news is that I got on the scales tonight at the gym and have lost 6 more pounds. I need to lose 7 more and I will be below a milestone weight for me. I can't wait.
My mom wants a way to contact Trainer Mike! NOT! Yesterday my sister and I took our grandpa out for his birthday. There has been this place in Gardner, KS for years called the Blazer Burger. A few months after Grandma passed two years ago, Grandpa started going in there. The owners, a young couple, have adopted him like he's part of their family. When Sandy and I suggested we go to the Blazer Burger for lunch Grandpa's face lit up. He couldn't wait for us to meet Jimmy and Heather. Let me get to how this lunch with my sister and Grandpa resulted in my mom wanting Trainer Mike's number. They have this unique ice cream machine over there. It comes out in a swirl onto a cone, but the edges are flavored. I ordered strawberry and the edges were strawberry with everything else vanilla. You need to know I would have NEVER tried the ice cream if my mother hadn't talked about it over and over and how good it is. Sandy thought we should send a pic of me with the ice cream to Mom. We did. She called me talking about how mean I am. She's the one that's been talking about this ice cream going on and on like it's the best thing since indoor toilets. I straight up told Trainer Mike my mom wanted his number and why. And I also told him she is FAR more of an ice cream addict than I am.
I hadn't been to the gym since a week ago when Mike and I worked out. The stomach flu knocked the workin out right out of me for a few days. I was a little worried walking into the gym and I should have been. Right off I had to run sprints. But the hardest part tonight was the lunges with barbells. I lunged down and back which is approximately 44 lunges with 40 pounds on my back. Then I did it with 30 and then with 20. OUCH! This was AFTER I had done three sets of lunges with kettle balls. In the middle of this Mike said, "Who likes lunges? Tammy likes lunges." Someone in the gym had to comment on how they do lunges. It's hard enough to do them without weight, but when you add that component it gets all sorts of tricky. At the end of the workout, Mike decided we would sprint again. I said, "Um...I think you forgot that's how we started the workout?" He said, "I know. We started happy and we're going to end happy. Johnny Carson style." The thing is...working out does make me VERY happy! Sometimes I feel like I'm going to die in the process, but overall it makes me sooo happy. I leave the gym and think, "Wow, Bunch you did it! You didn't puke or pass out. You did it." I am amazed that I have been doing this for 8 months now (HOLY COW!!! I just now realized it's been 8 months! And my trainer has stuck by me. That's a miracle. Surprised I haven't scared him off!) and still I am so challenged by the intensity of the workouts and sometimes scared that I'm not going to be able to do it. However, to quote the great Johnny Carson "If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined." I do feel more peaceful and I'm liking myself more all the time. 8 months ago...not so much!
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