[Leigh]

Hey everyone,

Well its time to get serious and start working out again! I've lost so much time due to illness and issues due to payment troubles with the gym I'm a member at that I've completely lost everything that I was doing before. My positive eating habits, my 3x a week at the gym, it all got tossed aside because I just couldn't do anything with first bronchitis and then a viral infection. Well those things are gone but then I began to have problems with my payments ~ they were being taken out when they shouldn't have been, I got charged 3 separate NSF fees and even after changing bi weekly payments to monthly payments, I was still getting money taken out of my account that never should have been.

I'm sure that I've gotten this all straightened out but my mom was very angry with the gym and how they've been screwing me around for money (rightfully so) but she got involved in the conversation I was trying to have with one of their member reps about fixing the issues and it got blown out of proportion. Now I love my mom to death but she's basically told me to close my bank account and close my gym membership immediately without giving me a chance to make my own decision. I don't want to close my account nor do I want to lose my gym membership; everything seems to have been fixed and what I want more than anything is to get back to the gym but I don't know how to tell her that I want to keep going there.

I love her dearly and I truly value her opinion but I just feel like this time I have to make my own decision, and I don't want to lose my gym membership. I want to continue working out, try a few classes and finally lose this weight ~ I wouldn't be able to just do it on my own and I know that this is the right decision for me. Hopefully it'll go smoothly and she will see my point of view, if not then I have to stand my ground and begin making my own life decisions otherwise I won't get to live the life that I want to live