Fat fighters, let battle commence

I have been fighting the battle of middle aged spread, for three weeks now. I go about 5 mornings a week. I get up at 5 am and walk the short distance to the gym. I am usually the only mad person in there at that time. I program the running machine for 35 to 40 mins on a manual setting (no incline!) and run. I run alone and in almost silence. The only sound that can be heard are my feet and the noise of the machine whirring along. After that, I make my way down to the wights room, do 6 sets of 20 sit ups, sets of abdominal crunches and muscle exercises. I feel the burn. I used to go swimming but by 7 am the pool is full of fat people, of different roundness, all over 40 years of age, splashing about in the pool. The pool looks like a Moscow Road, busy and wild. I usually have a steam and a jacuzzi and then go home, I arrive back home ,clean and exhausted by 8 am.

Last Saturday, at the fitness club, a very big Egyptian man, with muscles the size of a small country, showed me all the machines. He had a kind of nervous facial twitch and at first I though it may have been me that caused it with my endless irritating questions to him but he later told me he was a champion world wrestler, so he may have suffered nerve damage in his wrestling career? I asked him if he liked Moscow? he replied "these Russian people, they wild people" I agreed with him, he summed it up very well in his broken English. I now know all the machines but only use about 30% of them. I am focusing on my stomach. When I was 20 or 25, if I got fat, I would exercise for a week and it would be gone, nowadays I exercise for months to lose it.

In Slovakia, where I used to live, I used to run every day by the river, the air was sweet and there were not many people. Here that's impossible. I gained a lot of weight when I moved here, as it was (and is) almost impossible to run here, unless you live on or near a park. I have lost weight, as I can see it in my face and feel it in my trousers. I don't believe in obsessively checking the scales every day, like some people do, as that can be very disheartening as its so damn slow. I find with exercise, you have to be hard with yourself and keep with it, miss a day or two and you will not go back to your exercise regime. I don't expect to look like I did in my 20's but I do hope to gain a flatter stomach and to keep in shape for my kid, as I hope to be around when he is older so I must stay fit........ The battle continues!

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