Not that I’m old by any means but when I was younger I never thought about my weight. I always thought I looked good and wore what I wanted to wear while stuffing myself with chips, chocolate bars, and soda as a staple food item. I pretty much worked all day and danced all night. I was always busy and always had real high self esteem. Then I slowed down my partying to a reasonable rate and wasn't dancing as much. I ended up moving from a very physically demanding job to a less physical – sitting behind a desk – job that I still enjoyed my junk food at. Time went on and before I knew what was happening I couldn’t fit in to my favorite pair of jeans and I could no longer button up my knee length sweater. In fact, I couldn’t even get it around my circumference, it was just too small. So I headed to the gym. The first year I melted off the gained weight quickly and built up some muscle. I looked and felt better than I had before I even gained the weight in the first place. So once I was satisfied with my weight and my gym membership ran out I took working out off the to do list and grabbed my chocolate bar. Soon I had gone past the not being able to zip up the pants era and entered the - I can’t get the pants past my thigh - era. So I found a different gym. I remember the first time I went to that gym and stepped on the scale and honestly thought to myself that the scale must be broken. I worked out harder than I had ever worked out before. I lost the weight and stopped going to the gym again. Soon I was in the – I’m not even going to begin to try to put those jeans on – era. And back to a different gym I went. But this time I wasn’t excited about it because I knew that while I may take the weight off I will eventually get bored with the gym, stop going, gain even more weight back and continue this process forever! So I quit the gym completely and purchased a treadmill and some free weights. I had been on the treadmill off and on for a few years when I realized I had gained another twenty pounds that I needed to lose now. Truthfully walking on the treadmill was pretty much the most I pushed myself. My heartbeat never had a chance to get pumping because I never gave it a chance. So I went out and bought an elliptical. This would for sure get my heart rate pumping I told myself. But it’s quite easy to get lost in TV land and just kind of robotically move your feet on an elliptical without much effort. Well let’s just say I eventually was forty pounds heavier than the days of partying and eating whatever I wanted. True, I probably would have gained even more if I had not done my yo-yo gym routines but to be honest it was getting harder if not impossible to get the weight off and I was at a loss of what to do. It used to be so easy for me. After talking about it with my husband I realized that I used to do a lot of weights when I first started. Even at my job I was lifting, pushing, and pulling. In fact, cardio was boring to me in the gym and I could only get through the recommended ten minutes of warm-up most of the time. I would then focus my attention on the weights and literally exhaust myself with them. And that’s when the light bulb turned on. I hadn't been doing weights because we have free weights and I didn’t know how to utilize them properly. I had seen the commercials for the resistance band, and the exercise ball, and even the use your own body weight for toning up but I was brain washed into thinking that the gym was the only place I could get a good weight workout. I also thought that cardio was the key factor in losing weight. Somewhere along the line I had learned this about cardio and embedded it into my brain. Now I know it’s not true. Not only is cardio not the only way to lose weight but building muscle is vital to losing weight and being healthy. And you don’t have to go to the gym to achieve it. You can get the same muscle building and fat burning workout at home by using the proper techniques and routines. Today I actually have a productive workout at home schedule and I don’t have to head to the gym anymore.
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