There Is A Point When The Zipper Will Not Zip Up Anymore

Not that I’m old by any means but when I was younger I never worried about my weight. I was always looking good and could wear what I wanted to wear while I ate massive amounts of chips, chocolate bars, and soda like they were going out of style.

I pretty much worked all day and danced all night. I was always busy and always felt really good about myself.

Then I slowed down my partying to a reasonable rate and wasn’t dancing as much. I ended up moving from a very physically demanding job to a less physical – sitting behind a desk – job that still had a place for me to keep my junk food.

The weeks went by and before I knew what was happening I couldn’t fit in to my favorite pair of jeans and I could no longer make the buttons connect on my knee length sweater. In fact, I couldn’t even wrap it around me, it was just too small.

So I headed to the gym.  The first year I lost the gained weight quickly and toned up. I looked and felt better than I had before I even gained the weight in the first place. So once I was satisfied with my body and my gym membership ran out I put working out on the back-burner and grabbed my chocolate bar.

Soon I had gone past the not being able to zip up the pants era and entered the – I can’t get the pants past my thigh – era. So I started going to a different gym.

I remember the first time I went to that gym and stepped on the scale and truthfully thought to myself that the scale must be broken. I worked out harder than I had ever worked out before. I lost the weight and stopped going to the gym again.

Very quickly I was in the – I’m not even going to begin to try to put those jeans on – era. And back to a different gym I went. But this time I wasn’t motivated for it because I knew that while I may take the weight off I will ultimately get bored with the gym, stop going, gain even more weight back and continue this process till the day I die!

So I stopped going altogether and bought a treadmill and some free weights. I had been on the treadmill off and on for a few years when I admitted I had gained another twenty pounds that I needed to lose now. To be honest walking on the treadmill was pretty much the most I pushed myself. My heartbeat never had a chance to get up there because I never gave it a chance.

So I went out and bought an elliptical. That would for sure get my heart rate going I told myself. But it’s very easy to get lost in music land and just kind of robotically move your feet on an elliptical with not much effort.

Well let’s just say I eventually was forty pounds heavier than the days of partying and eating anything I wanted. True, I probably could have added on even more if I had not done my yo-yo gym routines but to be honest it was getting harder if not impossible to lose the weight and I was at a loss of what I was doing wrong. It used to be so easy for me.

After discussing it with my husband I remembered that I used to do a lot of weights when I first started. Even at my job I was lifting, pushing, and pulling. In fact, cardio had benn boring to me in the gym and I could only make it through the recommended ten minutes of warm-up most of the time. I would then focus my attention on the weights and literally exhaust myself with them. And that’s when the light bulb turned on.

I hadn’t been doing weights because we have free weights and I didn’t know how to utilize them properly. I had seen the ads for the resistance band, and the exercise ball, and even the use your own body weight for toning up but I was tricked into thinking that the gym was the only way I could have a good weight workout. I also believed that cardio was the key point in losing weight. Somewhere along the line I had been told this about cardio and embedded it into my brain.

Now I know it’s not true. Not only is cardio not the only way to lose weight but building muscle is essential to losing weight and being healthy.

And you don’t have to go to the gym to do it. You can get the same muscle building and fat burning workout at home by using the proper techniques and schedule.

Now I actually have a productive workout at home schedule and I don’t have to sign up with gym anymore.

I found the step by step routine I needed to apply to my life and cut out the yo-yo workout routine I was stuck in from http://getfit-4-life.com.

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