Me: “I can get a free membership to the gym that all the on-air people at the TV station go to for free! Now I can get a personal trainer!!”

My mom: (Looking concerned) “I’m worried that if you join a gym then you’ll get too skinny. You were too skinny not that long ago. Just be careful.”

Me: “Huh. Never thought I’d hear those words in reference to me.”

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There is a gym that gives the on-air people who work at my station free membership. I am not on air, so I don’t get free membership. Rude.

HOWEVER! My friend is a personal trainer there and she asked her boss if I could also have the free membership, and he said YES! I’m excited. It costs $30/month to go to the gym, and $120/month if you want to do any of the classes. So the cost is quite prohibitive unless its free. And personal training sessions are $40-50/hour. I am going to try a couple of sessions…but can’t afford much more than that. Either way, I promise I won’t get too skinny mom!

My mom is a nurse, she knows how much I should weigh.  When I was 5’9", 145 pounds, I WAS too skinny. I was gaunt and hollow looking. I gained 10 pounds back and look like a healthy person again. But that was last December-ish. I’ve been 155 since then. She knows I just want to get lean and muscular…not too thin.