THE WOES OF WORKING OUT - Keeping the bod tight

  A few days ago as I patiently scrolled and read page by page the pains and discomfort my close friend from college had been experiencing from recently signing up for a gym membership I shook my head and laughed remembering and reminiscing all too vividly my struggles sometime last year when I thought I could incorporate working out to my already funny lifestyle. Don't let me rub you off the wrong way working out and staying fit is the next best thing for everyone but for some of us we have found it almost impossible.



  So my dear friend started with the pain she had experienced after the workout session the first week and personally, I could relate to this because I have had my own fair share of post-workout pains and I kid you not they are brutal and some last for more than a week at times. She went ahead to express the discomfort she felt when suddenly everyone decided to stop minding their business in the workout space and stare judgementally at her like she was a lost cause even before she had a chance. That year during my morning run most people will legit stop whatever they had been doing to look at me and being my ever conscious self I'd almost miss my step and topple over face flat. Other times I would think to myself 'maybe half of my boob is hanging out of my sports bra or my jogging knicker is setting everything on display way too much'. This was a feat in itself believe me. Too bad when the gym instructor decides that since he's such a great morning person the rest of the world be damned so he'll put a piece of horrible music on repeat and crank it up to an ungodly volume so much that your ears will literally bleed on for the next 45mins. She was sorely displeased and if she wasn't there to keep the bod going I know her too well to stand that.

  

   Then you'll encounter the ones that think you're constantly in competition with them and bless their hearts because they are always ever ready to show you how some equipment work. These ones will do all the routines perfectly and make you look like a buffalo with so much self-doubt. Next thing you're be thinking 'Can I get my tummy to ever look that flat?' 'Check out those pecs, it'll take years for me to get that'.. 
God knows that year in my head I gave up a 100 times before I eventually quit. In another post, she complained bitterly of not seeing positive results after the first few weeks; this one will mess with your mind because after you'll see videos on Youtube that will say "Get your desired butt size in two weeks with these simple routines" you'll start thinking there is some invisible force working against you. Don't get me started on the part that you'll get very hungry every hour on the hour and God forbid you stray from your keto diet but what can you do, you can't comman kill yourself so you ignore that voice in your head that says once you eat carelessly you'll gain back the calories you have managed to burn after a few weeks. As for me, I didn't stick around this long before packing up and letting the so-called calories have their way in my body because some of us aren't cut out for so much suffering and mind games.

 Soon enough I realized this was a cowards way out and I remembered that quote about the Birkin bag.

 "when things don't happen right away just remember it takes 45 minutes to make a Michael Kors bag and 48 hours to make a Birkin"                   

Achieving something requires discomfort, pain and then gain in that order. Cheers to my girls and boys them that have successfully incorporated working out on a daily into their lives. May your skin glow and your bod remain tight and from your mouths to God's ears ask that the rest of us can look past the woes and actually start a workout rut soon.  Amen

 Thank you so much my darling Friend Faith Ukpeh for allowing me to use your story to encourage me and every other person that needs this.

LOVE 
HELEN