Learning from one's mistakes!

We all know that we learn from our mistakes, well this is the mistake that I am going to learn from today... until this diet is over I am going to stay away from steam rooms!

Now that I have started to lose weight I have also invested in a personal trainer once a week and so this morning off I set to the gym for my training session. Well the session itself was not that great, although I seem to be making some progress in a few things I am really dissappointed in myself when it comes to the running machine as I do not seem to be getting any better.

After my training session I decided that I would enjoy a little swim being that I was already there, had my swimming stuff with me, and also that my charity swim starts in a month and so I need to prepare. Also now that I have dropped three dress sizes I have also bought myself a new swimming costume that needed to be christened! Well the swim was a bit of a mistake as the pool was so busy (I usually swim last thing at night as there are not as many people around and if I am very lucky I can even get a lane to myself!) and there was no happy medium either, they were either swimming at 2 or 200 miles per hour.

So after a little while I got fed up of ducking and weaving in and amoungst the general population and decided to leave the pool but felt that with all my hard effort of the morning I deserved to have a little steam before I went and got showered and changed (also it is weigh-in tonight and therefore losing a little bit more fluid could only help with the scales). Well this my friends was my final mistake of the day so far as yes the steam was very nice and very relaxing but it then did result in my actually passing out in the shower afterwards (probably due to a combination of dehydration and low blood sugar) which I have to tell you has not been the best feeling I have ever experienced. Thankfully when I had started to feel dizzy I had actually sat down so I didn't have too far to fall and also the showers are individual private cubicles so even more importantly nobody else witnessed this (it really would not have been a pretty sight).

Needless to say I have learned from my mistake and will be staying away from steam rooms for the near future!!!