Becoming a Butterfly

Ok…

I like this new one. She is a no nonsense, tough girl…dare I say, Jillian-ish. Yep…definitely a Jillian girl.

She had long sweeping auburn hair, beautiful green eyes…and a strong demeanor. Her nails were painted a dark maroon…and her body was rockin’

She is the new head of the Personal Trainers where I already go.

She is a single mom of a 7 year old, since he was just 3 days old (that knowledge right there almost sold me on the spot)…but then she told me the words I longed to hear…

She was a fat kid. I think she said she was 180 when she was in 10th grade. Making me cry just writing about it for some reason.

She has been through a lot…and I like that about her. The girls got depth…and you gotta have that to hang with me. Oh yeah, and not to mention, kanoonas the size of Jillian’s:) if think you are going to make me workout in front of you.

I asked for references, and she put me on the phone with Mac, someone she has helped lose 130 lbs…(from 330) he COULD NOT stop singing her praises. He loves her…and said he will never have another trainer. She left the gym he goes to 45 mins away, but he still travels to train with her. She gave me another person to call too…

AND the best part, it costs less than half what the other “ADD player” wanted???

So…

I think I am going to do it.

Yep…I know I am.

yikes!   Jeronimooooooo

Ok,
Today 12:00 I meet with personal trainer #2.   Let me tell you about yesterday’s winner, I mean contestant.

He was short and muscular and kept looking around the whole time I talked to him…especially at the hot chicks.    He said that was because he was ADD…I say it is because he is a man: )  He smelled great, and told me it was Dolci & Cabana, and that it was important to smell nice when you were training people.  He looked Italian, but told me he was irish, but his dad was american indian…so that was why he had the dark skin.  He had a bit of a Brooklyn accent and Sylvester Stalone eyes, y’know, half closed.

He said he helped a lady lose 113 pounds in a year…and that he had 2 degrees in athletic training…that he was taught to train atheletes.   That is why he gets the 79/hour to train.  Let’s do the math…if he just trains 5 a day, then he would make 395 and that means over 100k a year…but I am sure he doesn’t get to keep all of that.

I asked him if he could help me run a 5k…and he said he was training for a marathon right now…so we could train together. 

I asked him if I could be normal weight by February, and he said, Oh yes, actually, I’d want you done by Christmas.  I asked him how much he thought I weighed, and he said 170.  That is 70 pounds less than what I actually weigh!  So then he redid the math and said, he would have me at 180 by February.  Dissapointing….but honest.   My guess is from his guess…he doesn’t train a lot of fat chicks.

He said he would help me, and would like to…but he said he wasn’t going to try and talk me into training with him, and gave me a card with his name on it.

We parted ways and I went to the furthest treadmill I could find, and here he comes with his next client.  He trained her right in front of me.  I watched him and he was just as ADD with her…so, not feeling so good about it.   He didn’t even acknowledge me either, the whole time he trained in front of me…that was awkward, and then later I saw him when I came out of the locker room and I started to say hello…and he stared right past me.  Weird.   If I am going to pay him all that $…then I want his undivided full attention…and good manners. 

While he was training her, I watched and wondered, can I do this?  Take directions for exercising from someone–in great shape, then do it in front of them…while they watch?   Hmmmm….rethinking this.  Wondering if just committing to some classes might be better for me…at least to begin with!   I KNOW I am worth the $ though…thanks everyone!

Ok…I will let you know how round 2 goes!

Last weigh in with the UNC Research folk, the amount of involvement with them was stepped up because I was 3 lbs from my goal.  So today was my counseling call with the dietician. I will get one once a month along with the regular monthly meetings. 

I was on my way home from the meeting with the personal trainer, talking to a buddy…and she called, but I didn’t know who it was…so I didn’t answer, then she called back…so I answered.  

I made the appointment with them last month AND they sent me a reminder…but some how I still forgot.   I think in all the excitement of meeting with a personal trainer???

She was so sweet…and spent an hour with me.  Told her about all of you…told her how to go online and check it out.  She did and was impressed…was also glad I was getting some support. (not as glad as me:)

Told her about the new Biggest loser food plan…trying to go to whole foods and eat less carbs and more protein throughout the day.   I had so many questions for her.  One of them was, “WHY ISN’T THE SCALE MOVING?????”  Basically she said I am probably forgetting to log some of my food…(and going out to eat too much).

Was she saying that, because I forgot about the call:)???   

Seriously…maybe that is it…but enough that I wouldn’t  lose anything????   I do go out to eat occasionally…

So I made a committment to not go out to eat for a month…and to log as soon as I eat…so I won’t forget!

She asked why I was looking for a trainer…and I told her I was frustrated with the scale not moving!   She basically said I didn’t need one…that I seem to have the exercise part down. 

I asked if maybe I wasn’t eating enough calories and it was affecting my metabolism…and she said, that is very unlikely.   That there is actually no data to support that!!!!?    That I could eat even less calories. 

WHAT?  So I said, ok…then how about I go down to 1200 then…would the scale move?  And she said, “Yes, definitely.”  So I said I want to do that.  So today I had 1300. cals.   Tomorrow I am going to go for 1200.  That way, if I am eating over, then maybe, maybe I will actually eat 1500…and the scale will move.  Either way, it will be a good thing!

She liked the fact that I was going for the whole foods.  Said that it will help me feel fuller with less calories because of the bulk.  And it is harder to miscalculate your calories too. 

AND since I am going to be eating more protein–more times a day–that will help me feel satiated longer.

She encouraged me to focus on the positive changes I have made…not the scale so much…but all of you tell me the same thing:)

I think that is mostly what we covered…

Tomorrow I meet with trainer # 2 so I will see how that goes…today…not so good…but I will fill you in tomorrow.