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Reporting back after 1st gym visits in 20+ years

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BelgianBeers · 01/01/2025 16:18

Hello

Lots of you have me advice when I joined a PureGym - I ordered clothes and stuff then got ill so didn’t go. Now better I have been attending and can report that is has been great. If you are considering joining I would absolutely recommend it. I have been helped by lots of different staff, done classes and use two different venues. Have found it all
very friendly and easy to engage with. Am just back from a session and feel great. Now I just have two ish stone to get rid of and some cardiovascular fitness to get back. 💪

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LushLemonTart · 26/07/2025 13:53

🤣 I didn't notice boobs

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BelgianBeers · 26/07/2025 00:41

By the way boobs = bombs… flea bombs😂

your evening sounds healthy indeed - a few G and T’s in mine!

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LushLemonTart · 25/07/2025 23:13

That's good changing your drinks.

I've been out tonight. Real ale and malt whisky night. Healthy drinks really 😅

I haven't eaten too bad today. Tonight was a one off tbh.

Back to it tomorrow. Good luck @BelgianBeers ♥️

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BelgianBeers · 25/07/2025 18:47

I am a flea bitten disaster! I mean fewer fleas but after so much effort, boobs and baths and skin treatments. Oh and the washing… still I think the tide is turning. I tried yoga classes but somehow it just hurts my arm and I can’t do the transitions so spend half the session dithering. Stared back on the machines but fairly gently. I have had a win though but I’d sounds daft. At the start I gave up caffeinated coke drinks and I have stuck to this after decades of wigging liver a litre a day … I know🤦‍♀️. Anyway I just replaced it with Sprite type ones so now have ended all fizzy drinks apart from fizzy water and mixers when out. Amazingly I have stuck to this and in turn it will mean far fewer buys of crisps and other baddies as the popping for some cans invariably becomes something bigger. I mean small gains but…

Good luck with the tone up plan - as you say it is harder!

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LushLemonTart · 25/07/2025 01:03

Oh heck fleas! I hope they've gone by now?

I've had some long ish walks and been doing youtube fitness videos. Mainly over 50s ones and some with weights for arms. Some seated exercise videos are tougher than they look. I do videos standing too. I'm going away beginning of September so want to tone up for then. Plus I want to get stronger and leaner. It's harder as you age. I'm eating less too. Although was away last week so did eat more then but been pretty good this week.

Hope you're doing well @BelgianBeers ?

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BelgianBeers · 14/07/2025 20:50

I confess no gym but plenty of activity and the enormous horrors spending hours cleaning as I try and remove fucking fleas from my house. It’s horrible! Little bastards! Off to hoover again…

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LushLemonTart · 08/07/2025 10:44

We're having a walk today too. Weather is lovely.

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BelgianBeers · 08/07/2025 09:51

That sounds wonderful. I am desperate to be on holiday so I can get out more!

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LushLemonTart · 08/07/2025 08:47

Had a hilly 7 mile walk by the coast yesterday. I can feel my legs today. Might get another walk in today. I'm not working until the weekend.

LushLemonTart · 06/07/2025 21:13

Oh I've been terrible today. Eaten so much sweet stuff. Delicious cake. Finished off the with maltesers 🙈 I've been with people offering me such things. Their fault 🤣

Back to healthy tomorrow. I'm off work so exercise and a walk.

Love your photo @BelgianBeers . Nature is fantastic. I can't wait to get out tomorrow I don't care what the weather is like.

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BelgianBeers · 06/07/2025 07:51

Out in the hills - this is my happy place. But back to the gym this week too.

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BelgianBeers · 30/06/2025 20:04

Have a lovely meal - at least we are enjoying ourselves!

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LushLemonTart · 30/06/2025 18:33

I'm out for a meal tonight. Celebrating with ds1.

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BelgianBeers · 30/06/2025 17:18

Honestly since tracking here I realise I go out more than I thought! We had a birthday this weekend and I am away again all next weekend -gin will be a big feature there too! It’s genuinely hard to fit everything in and today I am like an horrifically sweaty mess. I mean if I actually lost some weight I might not be so hot!

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LushLemonTart · 29/06/2025 21:50

Hi. Been doing ok. Exercising and walking.

Although had a bad week as had a birthday. Friend staying and lasses night out. I was good having gins though.

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BelgianBeers · 29/06/2025 21:02

How is fitness and food going? I have been doing ok. Have gardened today - have neglected the front and needed to get chopping. Fullest brown bins and am about half done. Am sore and stiff so will try to yoga it out. It’s just over a month to my peaks walk so - I need to get stuck in!

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LushLemonTart · 22/06/2025 14:13

Meant are having. It's Sunday 🙈 I'm off to work soon.

LushLemonTart · 22/06/2025 14:13

Yikes you must be shattered with that hot house temperature!

I'm OK ta. Just done my hip mobility exercises to help my groin. I do them every other day. Was quite active at work yesterday so felt my legs today.

I'll do arms again tomorrow. And have a walk.

Hope you have a good weekend.

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BelgianBeers · 22/06/2025 11:43

The arm weights sound good - it’s a shocker how hard some apparently easy exercises are with relatively light weights!

I have done some bike work and yoga but my classroom gets over 35+ very easily and it has been such a hot week I have been wiped out by the time I have been home! I love the heat but not at work! Will hopefully have more mojo this week.

Hope you are doing well x

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LushLemonTart · 14/06/2025 19:44

I've started doing a 10 minute arms video with 4kg hand weights. Harder than it sounds but I'm managing it. I can see a difference already.
I do a hip and groin stretch video too. I have trouble with my left groin so it helps. My chiropractor recommended it.
I haven't lost any weight but haven't gained.
We will get there or at least get fit trying 🙂

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BelgianBeers · 14/06/2025 10:35

Well in an effort to get back on track I just did twenty mins on the exercise bike and will do yoga and squatting later. I was really enjoying classes but find them all a bit pants with the shoulder - I struggle to adapt things without hurting it is my dominant side which somehow makes me more uncoordinated. Need to focus on legs and at home yoga where I can miss stuff out I think. I am going to stop eating. Just weighed myself and put 5lbs back on - tbh could have been much worse! But still literally back where I started - sigh😂🤦‍♀️😂

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LushLemonTart · 12/06/2025 23:43

Chiropractor was good. I go regularly. I'm only in 10 minutes.

Frozen shoulder isn't good. I hope you can get that sorted.

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BelgianBeers · 10/06/2025 19:08

How was your chiropractor - I love my chiropractor. He can make my back feel so good. Physio told me I have a frozen shoulder . I was thinking this might be it. Boo!

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LushLemonTart · 09/06/2025 12:40

Good luck with physio. Chiropractor for me tomorrow. I go every 6 weeks.

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BelgianBeers · 09/06/2025 12:38

Oh well. At least we have fun - that is good for you too right!

I am at physio tonight so will see what they say.

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