Unexpected Encouragement

In the last week I've encountered encouragement from unexpected sources. As you may or may not be aware, I changed trainers about a month ago. He weighed me four days after Christmas and while I hadn't lost as many kilos as I had hoped -although I had lost the same amount of kilos in a month with the new guy as I had in 31/2 months with the last one. More importantly I had lost major centimeters, he said for the one measurement it's normal to lose about 2 I had lost 7. I have also lost over 3% of my body fat.

The most interesting thing has been the comments I've been getting from the people at the gym. Last night I was after class the first thing out of the instructors mouth was how much weight had I lost. After I told him he looked a little upset as he said that it looked like I had lost more. Once I told him how many centimeters I had lost he said that was what was important and that the kilos would come. I was all ready aware of that as in the last couple of weeks I've been able to get into clothes that have been in the back of my closet for a long time. Then again this morning he and I had a 20 min about training and encouragement. If I didn't know better I would think that he was trying to steal me away. He isn't. When I was starting to look for a new trainer I asked him, well his wife, if he did one on one training, but he doesn't.

Anyway, i know that my trainer is suppose to encourage me, that's one of the reasons I pay him. Yeah, I know I'm being cheeky, my trainer was encouraging of me before we started working together. The unexpected encouragement was from the other instructor. Looks like all the hard work is starting to pay off, casual people in my life are starting to notice and comment.