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 had to worry about my weight. I always thought I looked 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 basically worked all day and danced all night. I was always on the go and always had real high self esteem.

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 I still enjoyed my junk food at.

The weeks went by and before I knew what was happening I no longer could fit in to my favorite pair of jeans and I could no longer button up my knee length sweater. In fact, I couldn’t even get it around my circumference, it was just too small.

So I started going to the gym. 

The first year I lost the gained weight quickly and built up some muscle. I looked and felt better than I had before I even gained the weight in the first place. So once I was happy with my body and my gym membership expired I took working out off the to do list and grabbed my chocolate bar.

Soon I had gone past the not being able to button up the pants era and entered the - I can’t get the pants past my thigh - era. So I found 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 ended my gym routine again.

Very quickly I was in the – I’m not even going to attempt to try to put those jeans on – era. And back to a different gym I went. But this time I wasn’t excited about it because I knew that even though I may lose the weight I will eventually get bored with the gym, stop going, gain even more weight back and continue this process forever!

So I stopped going altogether and purchased a treadmill and some free weights.

I had been on the treadmill off and on for a few years when I realized I had gained another twenty pounds that I needed to lose now. To be honest walking on the treadmill was usually the most I pushed myself. My heartbeat never had a chance to get pumping because I never pushed it that hard.

So I went out and bought an elliptical. This would for sure get my heart rate pumping I told myself. But it’s quite easy to get lost in music land and just kind of robotically go up and down on an elliptical with not much effort.

Well let’s just say I became forty pounds heavier than the days of dancing and eating whatever I wanted. True, I probably would 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 to do. It used to be so easy for me.

After talking about it with my husband I realized that I used to do a lot of weights in my early years. 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 get 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 a weight routine because we have free weights and I didn’t know how to utilize them correctly. I had seen the commercials 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 place I could get a good weight workout. I also believed that cardio was the key point in losing weight. Somewhere along the line I had learned this about cardio and embedded it into my thought process.

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

And you don’t have to go to the gym to achieve it. You can get the same muscle building andburning workout at home by using the proper techniques and routines.

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

I got 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.