Okay, so here is the way my gym ”career” started. Like I said, you have to find your motivation somewhere, right? My baby was a little over a year old and I could no longer call my fat baby-weight. One day, at work, I saw this super handsome man about 6 years younger than me. Muscle bound, young and had a five year plan. He was a volunteer fireman and was getting ready to join the marine corps.  He came up and talked to me and I thought I was going to have a heart attack. I have always people watched and would look at couples and wonder why is that guy with that girl and visa versa. I made a promise to myself I would not be the fat girl with a hottie making people stare and wonder.   I started hitting the gym most days at 5:30am 3 days a week. Weight was dropping off slowly at first. Well, me and Mr. hottie barely dated 2 months.  I wondered if I even should continue going to the gym but then I remembered the not quite as handsome more mature man that was always on the elliptical in front of me. I decided I would definitely continue going. I never imagined I would hit my weight loss goals. Short term, my goals were to meet him.  I then upped my gym days to 5 days a week wondering if he was there all those days and he was .  Every morning I would do an hour on the elliptical and rotate through all the weight machines. I didn't have a clue as to what I was doing. 3 sets of 12 on each machine, whatever weight I could do. On the elliptical, I always did the program for the butt and thighs. (duh) I hated seeing myself in the mirror after getting off the elliptical because my face was so red a splotchy and me and gym guy would be going for paper towels to wipe down the machine at the same time. I grew confidence  however, in the weeks to come. One day, going out to the car behind gym guy, he turned and introduced himself to me. He also told me that was his last day, he was moving to a different gym. Little does he know, I owe my initial 40 pound weight loss and determination to stay in the gym to him. By that time, I had a whole new motivator to stay in the gym. Gym guy or not. I was smaller, and I was starting to see my first muscles………calf muscles. It was a start, anyway. I will tell you this a lot. Find a time you can do, and find something that you like. (Even if it is some eye candy to pass the time on the elliptical in front of you)



Me after my initial 40 lb loss.  This was about 5 months after I started working out.  I'm in the red :)