Hi out there! :)

yolandita

Hi guys, I just hit the big 3-0 this year and am hoping to gain a healthier me overall. Here's my journey so far. I have a BMI of 40, which is really dangerous. I can also have pretty severe body pains that others just don't understand. I became concerned about my health last year and joined a weight loss clinic. It was pretty expensive, and due to other ongoing factors like my body pains, I felt I should be seeing an actual doctor instead. Thankfully, I was able to get healthcare insurance this month and have been seeing a great doctor, who, I feel understands me, and can help me get where I need to be. She did some labs on me and determined that I needed some vitamin D on my first appointment. On my second appointment she prescribed appetite suppressants and medication to help me with the body pain. Because of where I am health wise, the doctor put me on a very strict diet, limiting my caloric intake to 1,000 calories. I ask those who come and visit me in response to my request for friends to please not judge me by my caloric intake as I am following my MD's orders, because she knows my full situation and I trust my doctor, who is medically qualified, to do what is best for me based on my condition. I started going to a gym this week. I got a good deal, otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to afford it and even that was a real stretch on my budget for the initial cost and I had to make huge sacrifices for it, but I considered it necessary. Anyway, on my first day,one free personal training session came with the gym membership as a perk, which I really didn't care for and went through with it more so to be polite than anything else. When I arrived the trainer greeted me and began speaking to me about health and fitness goals. I explained to him that I was under strict doctors orders and am not able to do a lot of weight lifting and things because my body reacts badly to it, and I experience severe body pains because of it. The trainer was a nice guy, don't get me wrong, but he insisted that I do strength training that day as a way to keep the weight off. Again, I am a polite person and agreed, so I agreed to it. However, I did tell him that I cannot do anything over 2lbs. He had me do a fitness assessment, which I failed miserably and am deeply ashamed of. During the strength training session he bought out weights. I noticed that they were 2.5lbs--not the 2lbs that we had previously agreed on in our interview. I had told him my body could comfortably handle without no more than 2lb weights without side effects (these side effects could put me out of commission, as far as exercising is concerned) for about 2-4 days and not to mention the extreme amount of pain I'd be in. He then tried to give me 5lb. weights which I knew my body could not handle. Even though I declined politely, I was upset inside because I had disclosed my health condition with this man, and he deliberately tried to overstep my bodies boundaries. I get that a trainer is supposed to help a potential client up their fitness levels and push their limits, but the trainer is not supposed to encourage the use of potentially hazardous equipment and harmful physical exercises when that person has a severe health condition. I had informed this man that my doctor said to be limited in the gym and not to do too much more than I do on a daily basis. As the workout came to a close, I informed the trainer that my stomach was beginning to feel very queasy, and I became dizzy as well. I packed up and left for home. Literally, didn't make it a "stone's throw" of a distance form the gym, before I began vomiting violently. Needless to say that after this experience, that even if I had the money to have the best of trainers money could buy, I have no desire to seek a personal trainer because some just don't understand that certain people really do have limitations.