Gym me

I haven't stopped even though my dearest appears to be making up excuses to skip her sessions of late. I'm still making the three times a week... ok sometimes two times a week sessions but I'm feeling better. Running longer and generally feeling stronger. I'm still puffing like a chimney but I drink less, though I have taken to much stronger booze when I do drink with friends, but I don't binge anymore and that'll be a liversaver.

Any hoots, I don't appear to have lost any weight, but the pants feel less snug and I don't feel like I'm approaching seventy when I have to climb a flight of stairs or walk a distance. On the diet front, I'm still mad about Japanese food and I find myself eating more Japanese food than ever, but that's probably also because we have found a lovely little restaurant that serves great food and also provides friendly service... particularly since we've been back so often. Best of all, they also serve great beef and should I ever get a craving for some red meat, I don't have to worry :)

But it ain't all good news. Our friends whom we normally workout with may be moving on from their current job and we won't be able to use their private gym for much longer. :( I loathe having to join a gym here. First it's silly stupid prices that has to be paid every month and second there are just too many weirdos checking you or themselves out all the time. Makes my skin crawl when I see these weirdos checking out everyone in the gym but workout. Yucky. Well I have the condo gym but the machines are old and those rubberised grips on the bike and elliptical smell so damn foul! Some people really don't clean themselves very well if they leave their foul stench behind everywhere.

So I may yet have to join a gym... puke. Maybe I can clear a room back at my in-laws and turn it into a home gym. :) Yes that would be the best solution. A one time payment for a top spec private gym that I can use all year round. I'll have to save some money and not spend it on holidays if I want to do this... but it'll be well worth it. Clean equipment just for me the wife whenever. It doesn't get any better than that... Oh but before I leave let me tell you about my friends' gym in New Jersey. When I was there visiting them in March, I had the opportunity to use their gym there and I was in gym heaven. The equipment was brand new and there was nobody there besides my friend and I. The elliptical, treadmills and bikes had LCD monitors and all I needed was a pair of headphones. I gotta get me some of those LCD monitors on my new machines WOOHOO!