I work out at Curves and today our facility is trying to set a Guiness World Record for the most calories burned at the facility in one day by its members.  That meant the manager was having an “unoffiicial workout with the manager” day – and workouts with her mean she’ll push a person to do their absolute best even when they think they have nothing left in them to do “one more.”  

For some reason, having someone breathing down my neck and encouraging me to work my arse off works really well.  I burned the most calories, by far, than I ever have since I joined in January.  I was so excited.  I burned 412 calories!   Now I feel really good about having done the best I could to help get that world record (and if we get it, it will be the first and last time I’ll have ever helped set a world record for anything).   

But since I’m such a “glass half empty” person (hate that about myself), I’m also thinking how that’s only a little more than a tenth of a pound that I burned off.  How depressing is that? (see – I can go from super excited to super depressed in 3 seconds flat).  I just hope I get a lot of residual higher metabolism from this workout to help me burn more calories off today.

Now if I could just figure out how to motivate myself that well every time I exercise.

Okay, that’s all I can write for now.   I need to go find a corner to collapse in for a little while (need some privacy so I can be whiny about how sore my arms are from those evil hyraulic workout machines).

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