New personal trainer

In the past few weeks, I have enlisted the help of a personal trainer. If you remember, or even if you don't, I used to have one for about a year and a half. She was great and I did amazingly well with her. I was in the habit of exercising and even trained for the mammoth feat of riding 200 km from Toronto to Niagara Falls on the Ride to Conquer Cancer. She left about a year and a half ago and since them I've been lost. I joined a gym and did the classes but I didn't work out with weights because it was intimidating working out with these "buff" young men and scantily clad young women. After my membership lapsed, I did not renew. I've also been going to Weight Watchers for the past three years and after an initial 10 pound loss, I basically plateaued (but in reality, I wasn't really following the plan - I just liked the group meetings).

My friend had been working with a trainer and was doing incredibly well. But I couldn't commit to traveling up to his office north of Toronto. Well, a few weeks ago I said to myself "enough is enough," I quit Weight Watchers and called him. It's been two weeks and I've lost 3.5 pounds!!! He's got me on a healthy, "clean" eating plan and a 7-day exercise routine (WHICH I'M STICKING TO!!! ...much to my surprise) involving cardio and weight training. He believes I can be down to my goal weight by October. I'm trying hard not to sabotage myself, which I have a habit of doing. It's difficult being your own worst enemy, because you can't get away from yourself. So I'm dealing with it...

I'll try to post some updates because I think it's important to learn how to eat well, exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle. For me, attending the Weight Watchers meetings showed me I needed support, but WW doesn't go the distance and provide the one-to-one support that I really needed.