Travel Day

Yesterday was my last day at Phuket Fit.  I gained weight – fat, not muscle and I was dehydrated on my check out stats.  I think they had my food goals off a little, but my biggest goal was to try to get my body to want to exercise again.  After over a year with no exercise, I was tired and unmotivated.  So, I feel ready to go again.  I was hoping to process a lot of my experiences over the past eight months, but that didn’t seem to happen or is happening in a different way or is partially happening.  So more on that later as I figure it all out.  I didn’t take as many pictures as I wanted of Phuket Fit, but a few are attached.

Today I had a lovely pancake breakfast with Lynne and James.  I might have gained some more weight just from breakfast.  I went to the airport early, because what was I going to do for two hours after hotel check out in the rain?

Besides, my airline reservations were sketchy and I figured if something was amiss, I’d have time to fix it.  I had a minor freakout when I booked the flight and the confirmation came from a company different from the airline.  My confirmation came through with the note that I could not check in on line because the airline wouldn’t have my info on line.  I could only check in at the airport in person.  It also had the copy of someone else’s credit card attached to the confirmation.  What?  Then I reminded myself that everything works out exactly like it should.  And if something seems unlikely in Thailand, it will work out exactly as billed no matter how unlikely it sounds.  There is some sort of “that can’t work” magic in Thailand that makes unlikely things work.  In any other country, I’d be buying another ticket today.  I sat in a restaurant for a couple hours until the check in desk opened.  I got in line to check in.  There were about 30 middle aged or older Thai women in line.  Is this the Thai middle aged woman airline?  One lady made me go ahead of her and her friends because there were 7 of them and they didn’t want me to have to wait for them.  So nice.  Then the husbands started arriving – oh, the women go and wait to check in while the men do what?  I checked in fine (duh – of course – magic) and now I’m waiting for my flight to board.

I might do some more blogs tonight when I get to Bangkok.  I fly to China tomorrow.  China blocks a lot of websites.  I bought a VPN, but I’m new to this concept so we’ll see how it goes.  But, if I don’t post for two weeks, I’m either having way too much fun or the VPN didn’t work.  I hope China has “that can’t work” magic like Thailand does.

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PhuketFit

I arrived in Phuket in the evening.  Whoa, it was a long drive from the airport to my hotel, the Blue Rabbit.  It looked like my hotel is the only thing around.  Across the street is an actual abandoned building, not one that looks abandoned.  There were two very nice ladies waiting for me.  One carried my very heavy suitcase up to the third floor.  I felt bad.  They both were very talkative and helpful.  The room is the nicest hotel room I’ve seen in a while.  Yay!

Yesterday I started at Phuketfit with an orientation of the facilities and a fitness evaluation.  About half the people there are trying to lose weight. They have a weight loss program, a detox program and a fitness program.  I joined two of the workout classes and did yoga after dinner.  So far the food has been good, but the portions are quite small since most people are counting calories to lose weight where I’m trying to pack in more calories and more protein to help rebuild muscle.  Overall, I’m very impressed with the place and glad to be doing this although it hurts physically and financially.

Today I just couldn’t drag myself out of bed.  They have exercise classes all day so I don’t need to do the first one in the morning anyway.  I did three exercise classes today and I’m so stiff and my shoulders and left knee don’t want to work right.  I cried during the last class.  I expect there will be more crying as the 10 days go on.  Or not.

The King of Thailand died yesterday.  The country will go into mourning for a very long time.  I want to write more about it, but I should not so you can watch the new or look for news on line if you want to know more.

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