A success in the end :)

Jackie_W
Jackie_W Posts: 1,676 Member
edited September 19 in Success Stories
Ok so, during and after Christmas I found myself yo-yoing between 217-223lbs, but...I got off my lazy butt and worked out. I stepped on the scale this morning, after spending most of my evenings using my mini bike, gravity walker, walking, cleaning out cupboards and baking (only healthy foods mind :laugh: ) & drinking water like it's going out of fashion!
I am now 215lbs !!! :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile:

Now, I have managed this despite cancelling my gym membership after they moved everything out and now have all the equipment facing the wall! The personal lockers for mobile phones and purse/wallet which were in the gym - where you could keep an eye on them had also been moved - they are now situated outside the gym out of sight :noway:

I told the gym, if I wanted to stare are the brick wall for an hour on end, I'd be at home, and cancelled my membership, it's bad enough they have communal showers - which I refused to use - would go home and use mine, and having no spa! But I found moving all the equipment was the last straw for me.

My DH has decided to turn my summer house (which I rarely use as our garden faces the wrong way and therefore gets no sun!) into a gym - and he's already got half the equipment sorted out for me YAY :bigsmile: :heart: :laugh: :flowerforyou: :drinker:

I can now workout in my own personal gym, to my own choice of music videos and have a shower STRAIGHT after :drinker: :bigsmile:

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  • Jackie_W
    Jackie_W Posts: 1,676 Member
    Ok so, during and after Christmas I found myself yo-yoing between 217-223lbs, but...I got off my lazy butt and worked out. I stepped on the scale this morning, after spending most of my evenings using my mini bike, gravity walker, walking, cleaning out cupboards and baking (only healthy foods mind :laugh: ) & drinking water like it's going out of fashion!
    I am now 215lbs !!! :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile:

    Now, I have managed this despite cancelling my gym membership after they moved everything out and now have all the equipment facing the wall! The personal lockers for mobile phones and purse/wallet which were in the gym - where you could keep an eye on them had also been moved - they are now situated outside the gym out of sight :noway:

    I told the gym, if I wanted to stare are the brick wall for an hour on end, I'd be at home, and cancelled my membership, it's bad enough they have communal showers - which I refused to use - would go home and use mine, and having no spa! But I found moving all the equipment was the last straw for me.

    My DH has decided to turn my summer house (which I rarely use as our garden faces the wrong way and therefore gets no sun!) into a gym - and he's already got half the equipment sorted out for me YAY :bigsmile: :heart: :laugh: :flowerforyou: :drinker:

    I can now workout in my own personal gym, to my own choice of music videos and have a shower STRAIGHT after :drinker: :bigsmile:
  • renae77
    renae77 Posts: 3,394 Member
    Way to go Jackie! Keep it up!!!:bigsmile:
  • Donna2
    Donna2 Posts: 14
    *CONGRATS* Jackie! That's awesome! :bigsmile:

    I work out at home too & really like it. :smile:
  • fearlessliving
    fearlessliving Posts: 47 Member
    I have a treadmill at home that I use. I used to set my portable DVD player on the book stand, but the speakers blew out from turning the volume up too loud (treadmill makes too much noise apparently). Anyway, so now I'm lucky enough that my laptop is skinny enough to slide underneath the book stand and stay there while I chat, check e-mail, read, play games, watch videos, etc. . Helps pass the time!

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  • Jackie_W
    Jackie_W Posts: 1,676 Member
    I have a treadmill at home that I use. I used to set my portable DVD player on the book stand, but the speakers blew out from turning the volume up too loud (treadmill makes too much noise apparently). Anyway, so now I'm lucky enough that my laptop is skinny enough to slide underneath the book stand and stay there while I chat, check e-mail, read, play games, watch videos, etc. . Helps pass the time!

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    Hmmm, now that's an idea, might have to take my laptop out to my gym too :wink:
    I'm getting a treadmill in the near future - can't wait :bigsmile:
    Got a mini bike, gravity walker, toner thingy, 3kg weights, leg & hjand weights and a pilates ball at mo, having an exercise bike delivered next week :bigsmile:
  • Jackie_W
    Jackie_W Posts: 1,676 Member
    *CONGRATS* Jackie! That's awesome! :bigsmile:

    I work out at home too & really like it. :smile:

    Yeah, it's awesome aint it, I've only got half my set up so far, but I'm getting there :bigsmile:
  • Tri_Dad
    Tri_Dad Posts: 1,465
    Shopped around and joined a gym for the first time last week. FInally found one that fits my needs. Pretty small place. 12 ellipticals, 12 treamills and one cycle of nautalis strenght training machines and a few free weight options. Place is only staffed ten hours a day but you get an access card to get in after hours. (Plenty of police call buttons around in case of trouble ect..) I needed a gym that would let me work out when I had the time (which is most often "off hours". Doesnt hurt that every cardio machine has it's own flatscreen tv with cable and a headphone jack lol. Loving it so far.

    However a personal Gym would be better! grats Jackie!!:drinker: :bigsmile: :drinker: :bigsmile:
  • j_g4ever
    j_g4ever Posts: 1,925 Member
    Shopped around and joined a gym for the first time last week. FInally found one that fits my needs. Pretty small place. 12 ellipticals, 12 treamills and one cycle of nautalis strenght training machines and a few free weight options. Place is only staffed ten hours a day but you get an access card to get in after hours. (Plenty of police call buttons around in case of trouble ect..) I needed a gym that would let me work out when I had the time (which is most often "off hours". Doesnt hurt that every cardio machine has it's own flatscreen tv with cable and a headphone jack lol. Loving it so far.

    However a personal Gym would be better! grats Jackie!!:drinker: :bigsmile: :drinker: :bigsmile:

    When we went to stay at a hotel they had a gym in there and all of their equiment had the flat screen tvs on it. I really enjoyed it. very cool feature.
  • NWCountryGal
    NWCountryGal Posts: 1,992 Member
    Farout Jackie!! Good for you:drinker: :drinker: :drinker: this is going to be the best year yet:bigsmile:

    denise in Sams Valley
  • Jennnnnnnny
    Jennnnnnnny Posts: 373 Member
    ahhh that is my fav. part. having that shower after a sweaty workout blehhhh.
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