Things Are Looser

I've been going to the gym on a daily basis and spending about of two hours of my time there. I'm usually drenched in sweat and so energized that I feel like running a marathon when I'm done. It's werid when I first started going, I was tired at the end of one hour, so tired that I wanted to crawl under the covers and sleep. Not to mention sore--I could feel the sore in my bones sore. But now even after my set aside two hours, I crave more. I understand how one can be addicted to it.

Now, I have found that my weight has steadied. I'm no longer losing or gaining. The reason I had gone to the gym in the first place was to lose some poundage. The poundage I gained over the summer sitting at my desk, learning how to twirl a pen with my fingers (it actually looks like a mini-baton) has to come off. How can I tell a patient to eat healthy or to live a healthy life and have my belly obstructing the view of my feet? It's like one of the pulmonolgist I know who smokes. Very ironic. In order to have your patients believe you, you have to be the role model.

Oh yes, back to what I was going to ask. Does your body just hit a plateau? Do I have to work harder to keep the pounds coming off? I've already removed most bad things from my diet--and added lots of fiber, vegetables and fruit. And this pouch on my tummy. I don't think it wants to go away.

The other reason I'm writing about going to the gym is because I find it funny that I shower before I go. I actually clean myself up to sweat. And I also find it hilarious that some of the women that come look like they can go shopping in their outfits. Some of these sweatsuits don't look like they were made to sweat in. They are those funky sweatsuits with rhinestones on them. You know the ones I'm talking about---the kind Michael Myers always wore on his Coffee Talk skit. Anyway, does anyone else out there primp themselves up before working out?