overcoming my fear of the gym!!!!!

GOOD FOR YOUUUUUU!!!! I have been okay working out at the gym around strangers but very self-conscious running the neighborhood where all my friends and neighbors drive by and see me. But I'm doing it anyway! It definitely gets easier with time!

I LOVE this post! I am so proud of you for stepping up and doing it. It is NOT easy what you did and you ought to be very pleased with and proud of yourself! 

Each time you go it will get easier. Remember, too, that most of the people in the gym are so busy focusing on themselves they don't even really notice the others around them. Just go in and do your thing and to heck with everyone else.

Yay You!

Woohoo - awesome!! It took me months before I was brave enough to join my at-work yoga class, and even longer before I was comfortable working out at a gym while traveling. Now I have free access to a gym in our building which just opened this summer, and I don't think at all about who else is in there. Still not crazy about using the showers there, but I just push past it.
However, twice a week I work with a personal trainer in a little bitty gym in our office space. Our office administrator works with him right after me, but lately she's been coming in early, and stretching or something. The whole room's probably not more than 300 square feet, and there's quite a bit of equipment in it, so there's NO privacy. I'd really prefer not to have an audience, but I haven't been able to find a way to broach the subject with her - kind of awkward with someone in an admin position. Aaargh!!

 So I use to work out constantly at the gym. And I was by no means thin I was around 250.. but the gym made me feel so comfortable because it was SUPER HUGE.. had a private, females only work out area and an array of people who would work out there, both large and fit, old and young.

But.. I moved to a new community here in Las Vegas and we have a nice on site gym that is free... I do not feel comfortable at this gym. I swear ONLY skinny people work out there and when I go I feel like I am  constantly being judged and looked at like, why does this girl even bother?

I am currently weighing in at just under 300 lbs.. and it is just too humiliating to go to this gym.. its not big enough for me to get 'lost in' I stick out like a sore thumb next to all the fit people.

Ok so enough of that, but I had to get it out of my system. What I did was find a used eliptical on craigslist. Thankfully I was able to find one with a 300 # weight limit that has a nice 18 inch stride.. Now I work out at home and I am just as pleased as can be with my decision. I don't have to worry about any haters and no one stares at me. Maybe you should do the same and not try to deal with your anxiety at this time. Working out is hard enough on its own.

I think going to the gym and pushing past my fear has been one of the best things I could've done! I def. get awkward, especially when I don't fit right in a machine or cant get between the machines, but i just keep telling myself that I won't get smaller if I don't keep trying. The stomach machines are the worst! LOL the other night I literally got stuck.  I have a personal training session scheduled for sunday and I'm so excited! Get some pounds off and muscles built before surgery. (which I keep getting nervous I'm going to be denied! but my last nut/np appt is next week!!) the best is that my husband and I have a new healthy hobby together. (he's not overweight, but isn't healthy either). Which will help with the transition to the new road we are about to embark on with WLS! :)