{"id":103,"date":"2007-05-28T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/?p=103"},"modified":"2025-03-04T10:03:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T18:03:29","slug":"starting-this-week-pro-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/blog\/2007\/05\/28\/starting-this-week-pro-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting this week @ PRO Club"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So I went for my first program sessions over the past week \u2013 all preliminary stuff:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Initial blood test<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Initial counseling session<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Initial fitness baseline<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>But this week the real work starts. This week I go to see the program doctor tomorrow, and then I have my first personal trainer and nutritionist visit on Weds. We talked about taking pictures on a weekly basis and putting them up on Flickr for family and friends, and that\u2019s probably the route we\u2019ll go \u2013 starting this week. It\u2019ll be neat to see the progress over the next few months \u2013 the hope is to drop the last 40 pounds this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They also set me up with a pedometer to keep tacked to my side and measure how much non-exercise activity I put out throughout the day \u2013 setting a baseline to ensure that this doesn\u2019t decrease as exercise increases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s amazing \u2013 I found a couple pictures from when we were back in Arizona, and it\u2019s amazing to see how much weight I lost when we were in the Philadelphia area \u2013 I was quite the chubby monkey. I may need to post that up in Flickr as well. 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