January 23

I went to the Fitness Center at PVCC on Friday.  Woohoo!  It was so hard to drag myself in there.  I went to lab in the morning and left my workout gear in the car.  Mind you the wind chill was like 10 degrees or something.  It was all I could do to go to my car, grab my clothes and then go back inside it was so cold.  Whew!  I did it though and found the locker room, then I had to motivate myself to change out of my warm clothes into the much colder clothes.  *Note to self, bring workout clothes to lab with you next time, two reasons 1) I won't have to walk back to the freezing car 2) My clothes will at least be room temperature.

So I go into the fitness room...I had imagined lots of 20 somethings whose bodies hadn't been ravaged by time or children yet.  Luckily, there was only another woman around my age and a couple of guys who were lifting weights.  I just grabbed clothes as I ran out the door in the morning.  I packed a pair of tights, a shirt I had never worn before and a sweatshirt.  The shirt as it turns out was really short, so not only did I have VPL, but if you looked closely could spot the muffin top.  Aaaugh.  I thought I would just keep my back to the wall and nobody would see my butt.  As I entered the room I noticed that the treadmills were at the front of the room and everybody would see my saggy rear end and the VPL!  Oh well, I didn't know anybody, what did I care?

I am always intimidated and overwhelmed by gyms.  There are so many pieces of equipment. Which ones are going to help me reach my goals?  Well, I'm very familiar with treadmills so I started there.  I wanted to work on my C25K plan since I had let up on it a bit.  I forgot to bring the plan with me, but I knew the Week 2 stuff was a bit below my level so I just kind of did my own thing.  I walked for 5 min to get warmed up, then I ran for 5 min and walked for 90 sec until I was on for a total of 25 min.  When I got home I checked my chart and that is the first workout for Week 5.  I'm ahead!  Then I realized the third workout in Week 5 in to run for 20 min straight, which I believe I could do except that the dreadmill is called that for a reason and it's 30 degrees outside!  So either I have to brave the cold or the boredom.  I'll get back to you on that.

I still haven't weighed myself.  Obviously, I need to get a scale of my own.  I'm just hoping when I get to one I'll be really happy that I've lost some.  I keep sort of accidentally cooking vegan meals.  I have a number of vegetarian cookbooks now and they contain vegan recipes as well and they're the ones that sound good.  I even had some vegan sour cream over the weekend and it was fabulous!  I think I even liked it better and it's so good for you.  The one I got was Tofutti brand, so it contains protein, but not all the fat.

I also tried the grocery delivery service: www.relayfoods.com and it was really easy!  One thing they don't mention on their website is you have to bring your own bags.  Luckily, I had some in the car.  I love that they can deliver Whole Foods products as well as stuff from local farms.  Very cool!