I had a dentist appointment today at 3:30. As usual, I gave myself a mere 10-15 minutes to get from Las Colinas to East of 75 for my appointment (I underestimate travel time). At about 3:37, I am just pulling into the parking lot when my iPhone starts blowing up. Its Suz. Since I'm in a bit of a rush, I let it slide to voicemail and plan to call her back once my appointment is through. As I am walking into the building I play her message, "hey, just calling to tell you that you are 7 minutes late for your dentist appointment". God, is that you? I start running through all the possible ways in which she could know that a) I have a dentist appointment at 3:30 today and b) that I'm running late. Did she see it in my planner? Does she have access to my iPhone calendar? WTF? And just as I am about to give up on guessing, I open the door to the office and there is the little Suzanita, sitting and smiling at me.
I was supposed to train with a guy named Tyrone today, but he called in sick and no one called to tell me this, so I got stuck with a newbie trainer. It was this kid's first day. He showed up at LA to workout, not train, 10 minutes before my session was supposed to start. So, they threw him with me since my boy didn't show up. Great. A few trinkets from our half hour of fun:
I joined LA Fitness a year ago in attempt to have a gym that was close to the office. I figured it would be good for when I wanted to workout after work. Because I was already (and still am) a member of Bally's, which I use for working out in the morning. A year has gone by and I maybe make it to LA once a month. Thinking that I might want to go ahead and cancel my membership, I realized I still had a free Personal Trainer session I got when I signed up.
So, I went in on Wednesday for my free workout, with no intentions of buying additional sessions and with the understanding that I would quit the gym probably next month. After the workout they wanted to talk to me about package options etc etc. Fine, I knew they were gonna try to sell me on the deal, but I was going to be firm and say "no thanks, I am not ready to sign up today". These people do NOT give up. I was there for an hour after the session negotiating the price. After I got it down to half the original price, I still was ready to walk out commitment free. But, they kept going. And going. Finally, my trainer had to rope in his boss for the final kill. I really don't think these people would have let me walk out of there without tackling me first.
All I really wanted was a good workout. Which is great, because now I've got 48 of them coming right up!! Obviously I caved. They finally wore Miss Practical down. I spent the better part of yesterday stewing about it. If you can't tell, I'm still slightly bitter. Its a good thing I will be in Cabo next week because I need to get away and over this. These people took me to the bank and back. But, they do promise that I will lose 10% body fat just by training with them. Yeah right, I don't think I lost any body fat running a MARATHON, so good luck to you guys.
Its come to my attention recently that perhaps I have gained 10-ish pounds since joining the workforce 3.5 years ago. Why you ask? My pants are tight today. Oh, bother.
I have many theories for how this has happened. First being that I have relaxed from becoming the anal point/calorie counter I was when I first started working. Yeah, I may have been 10lbs lighter then, but I was a big stressbal thinking about what I was going to eat each day. And lets not forget booze...I enjoy it too much to restrict it as much as I did back then.
Second, I am not running the crazy 30+ miles a week that I used to run up until about 3 months ago. From lack of boredom and getting tired of the same thing for 7 years running, no pun intended, I decided to reduce mileage (probably to the ballpark of 10-15 miles a week) and start making exercise fun again. So, now my workout bag of tricks includes running, spin class, swimming, and P90X. Its possible some of this 10lb baggage includes extra muscle, since I seem to do more weights than I did back in the day. Because seriously it used to be running and only running. Hi knees...I'm sorry, can you ever forgive me?
My third and final theory is pretty random. Since the weather is getting warmer (well, not getting anymore, its 100 degree out), I have decided to take a more casual approach to work attire. Since I haven't yet reached my goal of having a job where I can wear tshirts and shorts everyday, I do have to dress "business casual". For the last 3 years this has consisted of button downs and pants, just ask anyone thats worked with me. And so, I have started wearing more casual clothes (ie more comfy) like skirts and dresses and I think that my ab muscles have relaxed since I've adopted this new habit. Therefore, they just like to hang out now instead of sucking it in while I wore pants. I think I am going to experiment a little and bringing pants back into my wardrobe somewhat regularly. We'll see if I get my six pack with koozies back.