I'm cross and fed up about joining a gym

[ellceeell]

After a lot of umming and ahhing I phoned the Local Authority gym yesterday to see about prices and joining. No problem, they said. Come between 11 and 3 and talk it through with our helpful gym membership staff. So I went today at 2.30 - and was told they were on a course but someone would be there after 4.
And what the young, fit and healthy looking receptionist hadn't a hope in hell of understanding was how much it took for this fat forty seven year old to actually talk myself into going this afternoon. I can't face going back as it means taking dd2 now I've collected her from school and she is very tired and wittery - she has only been in full time reception for a week and doesn't cope well in strange places at the best of times.
So, I'm sat here feeling sorry for myself - pathetic isn't it?

Gyms are fab. I love mine.

I'd be way too scared to go on my own. Shame really cos i need to go LOL.

ellceell

go again and take dd

she will mean you are NOT there on your own

you could just have a chat and a look around, that will give you more confidence to go back and use some of the machines hte next time

if dd gets tired and ratty then she is an excuse to go

and at least you can say you have been and broken the ice so to speak

Yes, I do feel I must go again. It was just that I'd finally talked myself into it and then to have been given the wrong info yesterday knocked me back again. It's a confidence thing I guess. (I like the look of the gym - lots of larger ladies )

ellcell - IME ALL gyms have lots of larger ladies. It's only on TV and in films and on promo literature they are full of svelte lycra-clad skinnies.

Thank god!

go go go - I'm in my 40s, a bit overweight and I go - and I go alone and my gym has rather a lot of svelte, yummy mummies in it, as well as larger ladies.

do it

and loads of pensioners go as well - Aqua-aerobics very popular with OAPS in my gym

Thanks for the replies - and the encouragement. It is time I tried to do something - and I like the look of this gym because of the lack of lots of svelte, yummy mummies! (Nothing against them, there are a lot at the school gate, but whatever I do I'm never going to be svelte again. )