A few weeks back, the fiancé and I decided to join a gym. I've been on a kick for a couple months to get back into shape after one fateful day when I stepped on a scale and saw a number I was completely disgusted by. Not sure what happened to get me to that weight, other than general laziness, but I decided at that point I wanted to lose weight, so I started a diet.
15-20 pounds lighter, I decided that I wanted to lose more. Or at least get healthier in general. I had been flirting with the idea of getting a gym membership for some time but wasn't completely dedicated to the idea. Part of the reason for that is I hadn't been in a gym since… well, lets just say I haven't been in a gym for awhile. When I first moved to Chicago, I would go rollerblading on the Lakeshore Path almost daily that first spring and summer, but that was the extent of my exercising for the last many years of my life.
After losing the initial weight through dieting, I knew I'd have to do something more to lose the rest of the weight I wanted to lose. So I brought up the idea of the gym membership again and the boo was on board with it this time. We hiked our way over to Cheetah Gym in Edgewater and snagged a membership (after a trial and some haggling on the price, of course). We also decided to hire a personal trainer for the time being as well, which was mostly due to my insistence. Like I said, I'm very gym-ignorant, which meant that not only would I not know what to do with all those machines, I wouldn't know how to use them, and all that adds up to me being very, VERY intimidated. So a trainer was the best idea I could come up with.
Luckily the gym had a great deal designed for people just like me: an initial consultation and three sessions with your trainer for a reasonable price. Sure, sessions after that might be a bit pricy, but I needed someone to show my how to work out first, as silly as that sounds. After that, I can cut back my training sessions to once every few weeks or a month. I was assigned a real lame trainer at first, but switched to the trainer Esvan was assigned after his first session and have been happy since.
However, we're down to the last week of our first month with the gym and faced with some decisions. We have 30 days from the day we signed our contracts with the gym to decide if we want to keep the gym or drop it. If we say we'll stay, then we're committed for a year, and if we say we don't want to join, we only pay for the time we used and that's that. I'm very inclined to stay. BUT I'm also very money conscious. I'm thinking this is probably something I should spend money on though, as I want to get healthy and be in shape, both for purely cosmetic and selfish reasons, and so that I can live a long and full life with my man. I don't want him to have to take care of me when we're older because I didn't take care of myself while we are young. So I have to decide what to do. It's just a gym membership though, am I making too much out of this?
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