600 Calories

I arrived at my ECU office at 7:00 this morning and did last minute preparations for my eight o'clock class. When class ended, I worked in my office until 11:00. Then, I left for my Fit Linxx appointment. A kind young man spent an hour and a half with me setting up my weight training program and entering all of the data into the computer. I was so impressed to learn that my ViQuest membership number is a figure as important as my weight. When I go into the weight and exercise machine room, I punch my number into one of the computer stations. Up comes my record of exactly what I have done, and how many reps I did on each machine, etc. Because we were just setting everything up today--how much weight to use at each station, etc.--there was nothing much in my log. However, tonight when I went to my water aerobics class, I went to one of the computer stations to enter my data after the class was over. That's when I discovered that I had burned 550 calories in my aquatic exercise class and another fifty when I swam a few laps. Another interesting feature of the ViQuest program is that the more I exercise, the more ViQuest "dollars" I earn. You can spend the dollars on massages, personal trainers, or exercise clothes/equipment, healthful food, etc. This incentive program will help me stay with it as I LOVE full body massages. So, I'm burning calories, baby. Too bad all this enjoyable exercise isn't helping with my writer's block. Oh well. One can't have everything.