Healthy morning with my mother

Today we were supposed to have a healthy relaxing day with my mum. When I was in France, my mum managed to lose a lot of weight. I was wondering how she managed to do it. We are still not sure because she started to go to Vacutherm, eat healthier and go for a lymph massage at the same time. Actually, it is possible that it is thanks to me because for Christmas I came up with a perfect present for my mother. It is always hard with my mother and presents as she is so picky. She is never happy with presents. It was like this also in December. I thought that she would be satisfied with exercises because she was talking about losing weight a lot. Therefore, I decide to buy a quite expensive membership to her favourite place (salon Bein in Hradec Králové) for exercising. It was totally opposite way. She was angry that exercising is not a present and she said she did not have time to go there. I was really disappointed. What´s more that in the end it was a perfect present. She went there anyway and she decided to try Vacutherm instead of another exercising. When I came home she was visibly thinner and now she can´t complain at all.

I was really curious about it. Actually I don´t believe in these machines when you do not really do any sport and you miraculously became thinner. I already heard about Vacushape a lot but I could not try it because it is not good for varicose veins we have together with my mum. On the internet I already read a lot of complains about it so I did not even want to try it. After, I found out that there are two kinds of these machines. Vacushape uses negative pressure during exercising and Vacutherm uses heat during exercising. My mum was talking about it a lot. She said it is perfect because you just have to survive 30 minutes walking there once per week and you can see real effects. No hard exercising.

We made a phone call and we were supposed to go there this morning. I was prepared for it and I just expected something where I will be standing and I will wait for a miracle (haha). Firstly, my mum went there. In the meantime I decided to make myself warmer on Orbitrek. I noticed that my mum was little bit sweaty but I did not pay attention to it. Moreover, I am used to doing sport these days because I go running often and I try to run more than 5 kilometres every time. When my mother was done it was my time.

It looked really funny. They gave me something which looked like a skirt and they closed me to the machine. The woman told me to keep my pulse between 129 and 139. She just explained me that I could set the pace and I could choose if I wanted to walk to the hill or no. In addition there was a special button for turning heat on. I took my music and I started. Since beginning I was not enthusiastic about it because I thought I was losing my time. Never mind, I just wanted to try it so I pressed start.

Immediately after pressing the button I felt warm. And warmer. And warmer. I was closed in the machine and the heat was stronger and stronger. After one minute I felt awful! I was already totally sweaty. How was it possible? I realized that walking in this machine for 30 minutes was not an easy task. I tried to be focused on my music. It did not help. I was watching the timer and it was so slow! After, I tried to drink a lot because I bought a special burning drink for exercising. Nothing helped. I felt so warm that I was not able to think about anything else. After five minutes I was in a lather of sweat! It was even worse than after one hour of running. I could not believe it.

My pulse was not even 129 but I couldn't add more pace as I felt too warm for it. Maybe first 10 second the heat seemed to me cool and funny but I did not even finish 10 minutes and I wanted to finish. I mean it was not anything hard. I was just walking. It was not even fast. It did not hurt. I just did not feel comfortable exercising in this heat at all. There was really sultry atmosphere in the room. I may exaggerate too much but my feelings were terrible at that time. I could not believe but I would prefer being outside and running for a whole hour! I am already used to running and I do not check the time and I just enjoy being outside and listening to the music. When I was inside the Vacutherm I could not thing about anything except for two thing:

• I feel so warm.
• How is it possible that my mum likes it?

These two issues were in my mind whole 30 minutes. In the end it was not so crazy. Besides feeling totally sweaty whole time it was the longest 30 minutes ever. When I finished I could not get rid of the warm feeling until we had lunch. In addition, the owner of the gym told me that I should have used the special button and I should have turned the heat off for a while instead of having it turned on whole time...

My mum made fun of me whole day. Actually I felt exhausted whole day and I even managed to fell asleep twice. Although I attribute my tiredness to the fact I went running two last days and to the fact my brain is tired of studying. Of course I am going to try Vacutherm again! I need to find out if it works and there is no way how to do it without trying. I guess that I am not going to lose my weight after the first attempt. Hopefully, next time it won´t be so tragic. I would like to go there whole summer at least once per week.

To support our healthy morning I already had cottage cheese with strawberries for a breakfast and we decided to try a new place for having salad in Hradec Králové. Mum´s friend recommended us the restaurant near library. She said they have amazing salad. When I hear word amazing I imagine a huge selection of tasty salad. It was almost like this. They offer five salads haha. I chose the one with prosciutto and melon and my mother chose the one with smoked salmon and tomatoes.

When they brought the food I just declared something like: “I can make this salad in five minutes at home. ” I was not happy when I saw it. It looked like they just put a lot of rucola on the bottom and after they added a little bit of prosciutto and melon. When I finished I knew I was wrong. The salad was really good. I liked it a lot. Surprisingly I even felt full. Although when I came home I managed to eat donut, small sandwich and for dinner bread with egg. Therefore, whole healthy day was damaged. In the restaurant they had a nice ice tea.

We were supposed to spend more time with my mother in the evening but unfortunately they called us from kindergarten that Juliette had an ear ache so I spent with her whole afternoon. Even though I could not study much it was fun with her as always. She helped me with unpacking my luggage. In fact, she just threw away all of my clothes from my luggage and that was all. I still did not have time to sort things from Erasmus. I wish I already passed my state exams….

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