Am I Treated Differently?

I was ask the other day if people treated me any differently since I lost the weight. The answer to that is yes. I was at a motorcycle club meeting the other day and at the end of the meeting they draw numbers for door prizes. I won a door prize and it was a bag of candy. The lady that was handing out the door prizes said “She don’t want that.” and she gave me some potholders instead. All of the people that know me know that I’m eating healthy and they don’t offer me candies and cookies. I did find out that a lot of people were very worried about me. They knew that if I didn’t lose some weight that I would probably not be alive very long.

We are in Wooster, Ohio now for a motorcycle rally and we stopped at a restaurant for lunch. I ordered a vegeburger and I was talking to the waitress about it and I told her about the weight loss and how I done it. She told me that she wished that she could get her mom to exercise more and lose weight. She said that her mom eats pretty good but she doesn’t exercise. I gave the girl the information to go to my blog and told her that if her mom read my story maybe it would help her and that she just has to find her why.
I think a very good why would be that her daughter is worried about her.

The only reason that I agreed to write this blog in the first place was to help others that are overweight and to let them know that they can lose it. There is hope. I know exactly what they are going thru because I was there.

Tennis Lessons

I talked about Camp weight loss in the last Blog. While we were doing the Camp Weight Loss we also signed up for Tennis in No Time. Tennis in No Time is a three week course (two days a week). We never played tennis before and that is who the course is designed for. We started out with a ball that is almost as large as a softball and it was like a nerf ball. If it hit you it wouldn’t hurt. It also bounced a lot slower than a regular tennis ball which made it easier to hit. After a couple lessons we went to the next size ball. It was just a little larger than a regular tennis ball and was softer so that it was also slower than a regular tennis ball. For the last two lessons we used a regular tennis ball.

The first lesson we learned the Forehand Volley (forehand grip, ready position and execution) and the Forehand Groundstroke. The second lesson we learned the Backhand Volley (The backhand grip and execution) and the Backhand Groundstroke. The third lesson we learned how to serve. This is one of the things that I am still having trouble with. The fourth lesson was about scoring and basic rules and movement in the backcourt. The fifth lesson was mostly about strategy. Lesson six was about doubles and singles strategy.

We learned a lot in six lessons and it was a lot of fun and great exercise. Our lessons were on Tuesday and Thursday and we would come in on Monday, Wednesday and Friday to practice what we learned the day before. We enjoyed the tennis so much that we went out and bought rackets.

Camp Weight Loss

I haven’t written anything in my blog since March. I ran out of subjects to talk about without repeating myself. I’m sure that people don’t want to read about the same old stuff over and over.

I have been very busy over the last few months. Clarence and I signed up for Camp Weight Loss at the Healthplex. It is a program for people that want to lose 20 pounds or more. It teaches you meal planning, counting calories, and how to get off of the diet plateau. We met on Saturday mornings and Gretchen worked our butts off. There was some of the exercises that I couldn’t do so Gretchen gave me other exercises to do. After working us out really hard on Saturday she gave us homework to do the rest of the week. The homework included working out and keeping a record of what we ate. It is an eight week program and I would recommend it to anybody. Clarence lost about 15 pounds and I gained a couple of pounds. Gretchen told me that I’m not used to doing ground exercises and she thinks that I gained muscle because my clothes still fit.