This is the 2nd post from our latest iHealth team member, Ann. You can read her first post here, well wroth the read!

As I walked through those doors I took a good look around. It was a massive room and … I was pleasantly surprised!! The first thing I noticed was not everyone was very slim, beautiful or young. The majority of the people there looked just like me!!! There were lots of privacy partitions, nobody stared at me, everyone was busy just doing their own thing.

The lady showed me around the gym pointing out pieces of equipment, which are apparently the most high tech in Western Australia. A couple of people came up to me, introduced themselves and shook my hand. The lady giving the tour told me they were personal trainers and everyone was there to help. So far so good, everyone was very friendly.

I was shown into a ladies only room that went straight from the changing rooms without even going into the main gym. Some of the equipment in this room had little personalised TV’s attached to them so I couldn’t even use the excuse of missing my favourite programmes on TV anymore!!!!!!

There was no high pressure selling from the staff and all I walked out of the gym with that evening; was some leaflets on times and prices and definitely a change in attitude – I felt motivated and positive.

I went home and showed my partner the leaflets and prices. My partner is also very overweight and has type 2 diabetes. He won’t take medication and for some reason won’t go to the doctors and definitely will not discuss the condition with anyone.

I knew this was it…. we both needed a complete lifestyle change. Not only did I want to improve the quality of our life but this change might actually save our lives. My partner is similar to me in that he lackes confidence and self esteem and he wasn’t sure Gym membership was what we needed. I gave him a good talking to that evening. I explained to him we would be able to motivate each other and after promising he could watch football for the next two weekends he agreed to go to the gym and ‘just have a look’ …………..

[ Stay tuned for the next installment ]

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