Going Good!

So I have been to the gym everyday since I joined. I had my first meeting with a trainer on Tuesday. We did my measurements..ugh that was awful. But I hopefully will never see those measurements again. I will be re-measured in 6 weeks and I know they will be down!
Wednesday I had my second appointment. At my first I picked 3 machines I would like to do my cardio on. Tredmill, recumbent bike and elliptical trainer. At my second they showed me how to work them. Now you may laugh but I am so glad they did! These things have so much info you have ot put in. You should put in your weight because a heavier person burns more calories than a lighter person. Yeah so everytime I do cardio I get to plug in my weight..ugh! And they told me not to fixate on my number...how can you do that if you have to put it in on a dialy basis? So she had me do 5 minutes on the teedmill..after 3 mins we check my heartrate. We used the machines tool for that and after 5 minutes she showed me how to do it on my neck. I didnt realize (or pay attention in the past) that it's good to check so you know if you are in fat burning mode. For me at my weight I should have 19-54 bpm. On the tredmill going 2.8 I was at 26 bpm. Then we went on to the bike....I still am not sure if I liked that. It's not a smooth ride...but I was a 28 after 5 mins on that. But there are TV above to watch so that is nice. I went on the tredmill (if you have a radio they have certain radio stations for the sound on the big tv's on the rumbent you are close enough to hear) and recumbent on Monday and watched the whole episode of Big Brother All Stars and didn't realize I had been moving for an hour! Then I went on the elliptical trainer! Now that sucker is crazy! After being on it for a minute I was sweating buckets! I had forgotten my towel so my short around my kneck was soaked! My bpm were 36 on that baby and I forced myself to get through the 5 minutes on that! Then she showed me the stretches to do. Dave laughed at me when I got home that night...said I looked like I had run a marathon.
Yesterday I dod the tredmill for 15 minutes and then went to the elliptical. I wanted to get through the 5 minutes without crying in my head. I got through it and probably lost a liter of wate rin the priocess! Thank God I remembered my towel! I plan on testing my cardio abilities on that one daily. I have an appointment to get my strength training program with my trainer tomorrow. I cant wait to start that! My trainer told me if you do strength trianing you burn more calories sitting down than soemone who just does cardio. You only burn calories while you are doing the cardio. Good to know! I dont plan on stepping on any scales till my 6 week measuring day!