Personal Training

Hey Happy Wednesday!

So I finally decided to start personal training again.  I did it for several years (2006-2009) with my friend F at Sunset Athletic Club.  I LOVED IT!!!! So now I'm going to do it again, except it's at Hardcore Training Studio (where I teach Zumba) with Shauna, who is also my boss. :)  She's very good, and I'm happy about it.  I start today!

However, I'm not too happy about the fact that I have to follow this diet plan.  Well.. I'm happy about having a diet plan, just not THAT diet plan.  

Sorry.  This is making no sense.  Let me try again.

So my friend Alena has been training with Shauna for nearly 2 months now.  She is looking great - really nice muscle definition and her confidence is increasing and all that.  But she has really had trouble with the diet.  There's just SO. MUCH. PROTEIN!  I don't want to eat that!!!  I don't want to drink 4 protein shakes a day.  I just can't.  First of all, that's like over 400% of daily recommended value (for a 2,000 calorie diet no less, and I don't need that many.  Although apparently that's debatable) which is just crazy.  Not to mention gross!  I have enough trouble getting down 1/2 to 2/3 of a protein shake every day.  It's not that they taste bad.. they are actually pretty good.  It's just my body is like "nope, no thank you, no more, I'm good."  And then I cannot drink anymore.  I'm not afraid of it either.  My body just decides it has had enough and starts trying to reject it.

So I am going to try to tell Shauna 2 things.  1) I want my measurements to go DOWN not up, except for the number on the scale because I actually don't care about that (glory be!) and 2) that I don't want to exceed my daily recommended value of protein.  I'll drink 2 per day, and that's it.  Now the question is, how do I say that stuff tactfully?  The first one is no problem (although I'm sure she'll refuse) but the second one... she is the expert after all!  What do I say?

Last night she and I were talking and she told me that today would be a hectic day for her.  I told her, "I promise not to be a difficult client for you tomorrow."  She said, "Oh I'm sure you'll be difficult."  (ouch!) I said, "what do you mean?"  She responded, "well, I'm sure you won't complain about the exercises, but the diet I think will be a challenge with you!"  I promised her I would try my very hardest.  But she is right!  That will be a struggle.  But I won't complain to her.  If I'm having trouble, I'll just keep trying.  What else can I do?  Quit?  No.  That's not my nature. Lol! 

In totally unrelated news, my bulldogs went to daycare today for the first time.  I miss them!!! I feel like a mom who just sent her kids off to kindergarten.  I felt bad for them because they get so bored at home in the wintertime.  It's cold and rainy (although today it's just cold!) so I can't take them to the dog park.  Our condo is too small for them to really run around in.  So Corky went to this place called Muttley Crew, where he knows the owner, and got a discount on a 10-pack of daycare visits for the bully-bums.  Jax is just so hyper and needs a place to expend his energy without being constantly reprimanded for running into/over/through things and chewing up cardboard.  Poor little dog!  He's a teenage boy, ganglyand acne ridden (I kid you not) and just bursting with pent up energy.  So I hope they're having fun, although their mama misses them terribly!