Losing more than weight

I've dropped almost 75 pounds and I've lost some other things along the way. One is my sense of humor. I can't seem to find enough funny to write in my humor blog much. But that doesn't worry me too much, what I'm losing also that concerns me a lot is my hair.

They told me that hair loss could be a side effect of rapid weight loss. Well, I've got thick hair and just how much are we talking about. Well, I'm losing hair and altho it's not coming out in handfuls, it's still enough that my husband thought the cat had been laying on my collar. And it's not all over my head, just on the top. Yep, male pattern baldness. So far, no one can see a difference but I can feel the thinning when I run my hands thru my hair. I'm taking Biotin, which is suppose to help prevent hair loss, I'm eating lots of protein too.

I don't want to be that middle aged woman in a wig that everyone snickers at. At least I'm losing the weight and I won't be the fat middle aged woman in a wig.

Women have Curves

I got an offer for 30 days/$30 at my local Curves. I'd heard good and bad about this type of circuit training. I had decided to go in with an open mind and stretchy pants.

The gal who runs our local place seems very nice and took me through a fitness assessment and then helped my do a 30 minute workout on the machines. I figured since I've been swimming so much it would be a snap. I didn't do as much as the other women there, as part of my time on each machine was just learning what to do but I can tell that I did get a workout. My muscles are feeling it. I can't wait to go back.

I do see that it is a routine that is drive by you. You are only going to get out of it what you put into it. I like that I was targeting certain muscles that I obviously wasn't hitting by just swimming. So I'm thinking I will do Curves 3 days a week, swim twice a week and try and get a bike ride in the other days.