Your knee a-splode

This week’s new craving: A quarter-pounder with cheese and fries from McDonald’s. I’m not sure why that came up all of a sudden, I suppose the menu picture in the drive-thru on Monday contributed. I’d really like to not fall off the wagon on the weekends, but at least for now I think I need the “reward”, (so placed in quotes because it is both reward and punishment, one psychological, one physical). That being said, I am excited to try Panda Hut, as is the plan for Friday lunch.
Last night was cardio, and I managed 1.25 miles on the elliptical trainer, with 225 calories burned. Tonight it will be weights again, and Jenny tells me that we’ll have done a solid 5 days in a row, having started on Saturday. Then Thursday and Friday off, then back to the 5 days of alternating weight-training and cardio. I’m learning that being as overweight as I am, there are certain exercises I cannot do. I hope to add the Dead-lift and Squat back in once I lose more weight, but for now I have to substitute some easier, machine exercises that are less likely to cause my knees to explode like claymores.
I’m not nearly as uncomfortable at the gym these days, although I think it’s more through familiarity than growing self-esteem. I’m starting to feel that familiarity with a place that I visit almost 5 times a week. The sights, sounds, and smells of Anytime Fitness are starting to become familiar and comfortable, which I hope is a good sign of an on-going relationship with the place, and exercise in general. One negative about moving would be having to find another gym and go through it all over again. I’ll miss AF-West Allis’ regular patrons, from the guy Jenny and I refer to as Lurch, because he looks like the huge trolley-boy from Hot Fuzz, (he totally gave me the “what’s up” head-raise.) To the hot blonde that Jenny teases me about because I refused to hop on the elliptical right next to her.