Had my first personal training client yesterday....

I had my first client yesterday.
It went well except for right off the bat! I had the guy do the hip adductor and hip abductor machines. I couldn't figure it out and had to ask for help from my boss, Jess! I had never used it before and didn't see the handle on the side. The guy looked at me like 'This new guy is an idiot!'
He's quiet, but I think I built a good rapport with him and had him talking at the end. His abs got a good workout! I had him do the bosu ball 'machine' as well as the ab machine then I got him down on the floor and did various types of crunches with him.
We finished with some stretching which he said he hadn't done in ages. Flexibility is one of the biggest things everyone needs to work on!
Can't wait for Monday. I have 4 or 5 clients that night!

Worked out at Anytime Fitness this morning before work....

So I worked out at Anytime Fitness before work today. I love that place!
I did about 30 minutes on the treadmill jogging some of the time and walking some. The treadmill has a TV built into it! You simply plug your headphones in and the controls are right at your hand! Nice! Same thing with the ellypticals. And they're the same style ellyptical that I loved so much at Mercy: Life Fitness!
After the treadmill, I hit the weights and did a circuit of upper and lower body.
I'll probably work out there again tomorrow morning.

HyVee is out of super protein bars...

So I normally buy a box of Odwalla Super Protein bars about every 2
weeks (12 per box @ $12). They're cheap for a protein bar with 16g of
protein and 220 or so calories. A lot of super protein bars are way
more expensive.
I ended up buying some low carb protein bar with 20g of protein. Since
they're low carb and I eat them after my workout, I'm going to add an
apple to my post-workout snack. The bars I bought are 170 calories, so
the apple will get my calories up there as well. I think these bars
were $1.49ea so I just bought 2. I'm going to keep checking HyVee. The
HyVee by me @ 86th & Douglas doesn't carry them, so I have to keep
checking the Valley West HyVee.

Speaking of out of things...
The HyVee by me doesn't carry my natural peanut butter any longer.
That or they're out of it temporarily. The kind I buy is in a glass
jar & is good. Chunky, but not too chunky. The kind I had to buy this
time was in a plastic tub & the chunks of peanuts are literally half
peanuts -- big chunks.

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Working out @ Anytime Fitness in Urbandale tomorrow...

I'm not working out at Mercy tomorrow. I start working at Anytime
Fitness in the Cobblestone Market in Urbandale Thursday evening. I
want to familiarize myself with the gym before then, so I figure
tomorrow morning will be a good chance to do so.
I'd have gone today, but I had to meet Brad Argo from Blue Gate Media
@ Mercy so he could shoot a couple quick bits for Mercy's website. He
needed a bit more filler.
I can't wait to start @ Anytime, but I'm a bit nervous...

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My speech this last Saturday....

So I had my speech on Saturday afternoon. I had to leave our film shoot in the middle of it to go speak then go back to filming.
There were four speakers: A doctor who performs the lapband weight loss procdure, a dietitian from Mercy's Center for Weight Reduction, a patient who had the lapband done and whom also works at the hospital, and me.
There was 1 hour set aside for the 4 of us to speak. Well, the doctor spoke for 40 minutes. The dietitian spoke for 10. For you math majors out there, that left 10 minutes for me and the other speaker to do our thing. I ended up racing thru my speech in 5 minutes so that the other person could speak. It was a real bummer.
The doctor and I spoke beforehand. He said that he heard about me and what I'd accomplished. he said due to me he was going to change one part of his speech.... He got to the part where he said that DIET AND EXERCISE DOESN'T WORK. I couldn't believe my ears. He said that I was the exception. He said that people just can't lose weight and keep it off thru diet and exercise. Wow.
Sounded like he was trying to sell the lapband procedure pretty hard! Diet and exercise DOES work. You just have to commit to it.

Where did McDonald's Asian salad go?!

I went to McD's over lunch for a salad since I was way too busy over the weekend shooting the film for the National Film Challenge to go to the grocery store. I ordered the Asian grilled chicken salad and was told they no longer have it! Bummer! Fairly healthy except for the sodium from the dressing.
Oh well.

New photo of me from my birthday at work....

So here's an updated photo of me from my birthday yesterday at work for those who haven't seen my physical progression yet. Kinda hard to tell probably with the jacket on and all, but it gives you an idea....

A goal I want to work towards next....

I'd love to get certified as a personal trainer. I need to do some research on that to find out just what I need to do. I truly want to help people accomplish what I've done. I feel as a certified personal trainer I can better do that!

Today's workout....

So yesterday was my 31st birthday. I was out til midnight at Billy Joe's for some karaoke and a few drinks. I wake up at 5:40am to eat breakfast and get ready for the gym, so I was BEAT.
I should've slept in, but I'm dedicated!
Thursdays is body sculpting class. We use dumbbells for upper body and then do various crunches and ab exercises. Some of them we place the dumbbells on our chests for added resistance to really strengthen the abs and the core.
It was a great workout.
I am sooo sleepy, though!

Spending my birthday alone :-( ...

I'm spending my birthday alone tonight. :-( Boo! Kinda sucks.

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Channel 13 shot an update on me today at the gym....

Channel 13 shot my update today to air in November sometime. Sonya made sure to have me mention that I work part time at Anytime Fitness now! :)
I can't wait for people to see me now that had seen me on the news then!
Stay tuned for an update when that'll be!

Speaking on Saturday at the Take Control of Your Diabetes event....

This weekend I'm speaking at the Take Control of Your Diabetes (TCOYD) event. It should be in front of at least a thousand people from the way it sounds. My name is in the brochures and everything. It's kinda cool!
I'll be speaking about natural weight loss and about my journey from 316 pounds to now (about 195 so far).
This is a big event that they take from state to state.
I'm having some business cards made up to hand out to people afterward if we talk. It'll have my contact info for my job at Anytime Fitness as a Personal Fitness Consultant. That way folks can get in touch with me so that I can help them do what I have done!

I'm a personal fitness consultant!....

Anytime Fitness called today and offered me a personal fitness consultant
position! I'll be working at the Urbandale location in the Cobblestone
Market. Waiting to see what happens with my hours at Geo and Anytime
Fitness is waiting to see what time their clients sign up for to see
when I'll be working. I'm very excited!

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Part time job interview today....

So I saw an ad on Craigslist for an interesting part time job. I
answered the ad and had an interview today. What's the job, you ask??
A personal trainer at Anytime Fitness in Urbandale. The manager said
it's not necessary to be certified. She said what I've done in losing
the weight in the last year qualifies me. I would love to help people
achieve what I've achieved!
I should hear back Monday or Tuesday!

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Shot video today for Mercy's website....

Mercy hired a film crew to shoot some video of me and my trainer, Deb,
to put up on their website as a success story.
John Cahill and Brad Argo who both used to work for WHO shot the video
this morning. They shot me working out and also interviewed Deb and I.
Sounds like the video should be done in a few weeks.

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Weigh-in....

I no longer have my official weigh-ins at Mercy since I hit my goal of
losing 116 pounds. I weigh-in unofficially in the locker room. My new
goal is to lose 20 more pounds to get to 180. I didn't weigh-in last
week. I weighed myself today and now weigh 195! 15 pounds to go to get
to my current goal! That's a loss of about 2 1/2 pounds a week! That's
great this far along, especially for how long it took me to get to my
last goal!

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Wednesday night's speech....

I was invited to speak at the Rising Sun church on Wednesday. The time
slot was an hour and a half. I thought I'd only speak for 30 minutes.
I didn't have to fill the whole time.
I had a 1 page outline prepared with a focus on motivation. I ended up
speaking for 90 minutes! It was a great experience. I'm really
looking forward to speaking at TCOYD on 10/25!

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