Gym break

I just came from a long long long long long time away from the gym mwahhaa.. well not really that long but it's been a long time since I had motivation to go 5 times a week then pig out on the weekends mwahhaa..

I lost like 10 lbs before the holidays and I vowed never to gain them again but hey I'm human, the food was good and yes I stuffed my face til I gained the 4 lbs back.. some of you may say that it's easy to lose the 4 lbs it's just the water you retained, coz you drank alot the whole day and before you worked out and weighed yourself, but noooo 4 lbs for me is 4 lbs.. I haven't lost 10 lbs before.. ever.. I always lost 4-5 lbs but not 10... and this is the first time I weighed 125 since my elementary days, and that was long long long long long ago... hehehe...  so this is an achievement for me.. and here is my story..

I've been putting off going to the 24hr fitness in downtown because of fear, fear of being lost( yeah like 4 blocks down 5th street will bring me to oz), fear of changing and fear of looking like a fool.. Somehow I've made Jun my crutch whenever I go to the gym, esp 24 hr fitness, I go there only when he goes coz he introduced me to that gym.. oh btw I have 2 memberships which are slurping all my money away mwehhee.. anyway, so there I was at the Bally Total Fitness in downtown on a Monday thinking I will miss all of this, the step class with Eric, walking almost 6 blocks to the gym which constitutes as part of my workout, and the feeling of being a rockstar at a gym... I love that place coz I know where things are, tho I don't really use the machines... I love being the girl who knows how to follow the difficult steps at the classes... 

Oh well I don't know what I ate or what happened but I woke up today amped up about going to the gym, any gym I said to myself, as long as I go... but this day somehow I vowed to go to the renovated 24hr fitness in downtown, 4 blocks away from my office.. I browsed through the different classes and was debating on doing the 24Lift with Karla or the Yoga class in the Glendale branch.. I saw they had yoga class in downtown but it was at 5:30 and my work ended at the same time, so I said no way am I gonna make it.. but lo and behold my boss declares we could go home at 15 mins past 5 which means if I run or hurry I can still make it to the yoga class and the 24Lift class too.. yay!

So there I was sprinting my way to the gym, good thing I asked where it was coz it was in the basement of a very tall downtown building, which for the love of God I know I wouldn't have been able to find if the guy on the phone didn't tell me to just go down the stairs I see when I cross the street right after the library... It was huge down there.. no wonder people didn't just wander into the subway by our office coz they had a huge cafeteria complete with mcdonald's, a sushi place, a rice palace(served rice bowls with toppings), lots of other restaurants, a GNC and a gym down there.. I wouldn't leave that bldg if I worked there.. it was almost complete.. the only thing they lacked down there was a Macy's, JC Penny or a target hahaha.. who knows maybe they do have one there, I didn't look around... hahah...

Anyway so I was like 5-10 mins late coz I still had to change but hey I made it.. everybody had their own mats but Larry the instructor was great I just mouthed mats and he pointed where they were.. yay... I know I get happy with little things, but his yoga class was great, I felt like every muscle I had was screaming, coz they got stretched alot... so the class ended and I felt it wasn't enough.. so I decided to do the other one too.. the girls who were beside me were awesome, forgot to get their names but since it was  my first time I wasnt't scared to ask around, coz for this class you needed to ask around coz everyone was taking 2 pairs of dumbells, a bar with weights on each side, the blocks you use for step class with 4 things to increase the height and a mat.. so there I was thinking it was a step class, I got the block with the least amount of height, coz I was thinking I didn't want to land on my butt on my first step class... then it dawned on me after everyone was grabbing weights, that hey this was a weights class.. so I asked and the girl helped me chose what and I in turn helped Tenisha do the same thing.. it was freaking fun, energizing and plain awesome.... this was the class I was looking for in Ballys that they didn't have.. the one that worked on your arms, your abs and your thighs.. well that probably sums up everything you need to do at the gym and they didn't have it.. yay good thing I went... now not only are my muscles stretched they are screaming as well esp my arms.. my gosh if I continue this I'd have the arms I want before summer comes yay... so there you go 1 class is enough but tomorrow is the boot camp.. I'm doing that too even though my body screams no... NO way am I going back to the frumpy me mwahhaa.. I want my old arms, thighs, waist and tummy before I came to america mwahhaa.. and no way am I going back to the 20lb over my ideal body weight me.. I have to do this.. I'm turning 30 this year.. I have to at least achieve one of my goals... to be skinny before I go back to the Philippines mwehehe...