With three days of no exercise and my mom cooking all my favorite dishes while I am in town – and only ten days left before I leave for Chile, I am desperate to lose weight so that I can fit into my spring clothes.

This morning, I enrolled for a week of Bikram and I was going to do that and CrossFit back to back, but the schedules didn’t quite match, so I’ve decided to do Bikram and boxing instead. So, right after yoga, I went to Elorde’s Gym – and I now have a trainer called Waldo! (Who in the world calls their kid Waldo?)

I must say that I missed the grit of an honest-to-goodness boxing gym. There were a lot of strong women in there today and I felt inspired to get back into shape.

Except that I’m so terribly out of shape that I could only manage three rounds of sparring (as opposed to six). I did finish my three rounds on the speed ball and three rounds on the punching bag, but could only manage two on the double end bag before calling it quits.

We did a bit of ab work before Waldo stretched me and gave me a bit of a massage.

I did tell him that I wanted to take it easy today so that I could come back and train tomorrow. While I was shit at almost everything, I think Waldo was impressed that I could throw a punch.

Now, let’s see if I can keep this up for a week…