I remember reading an article some months back reporting on research that most hotel cleaners stay fit, healthy and slim because of the amount of exercise they get from their cleaning jobs. Being overweight myself or more on the obese side, unemployed and not feeling like having a mentally challenging job, I decided that hotel cleaning would be a healthy choice for me. So I applied to local hotels and started a cleaning job two weeks later.

Exercise for weight loss

Certain types of exercise do not appeal to everyone and I soon discovered that cleaning exercise was not my fortê. Vacuum motions room after room, repetitively wafting sheets in the air and wiggling while washing bathrooms soon made me desire the mentally more challenging.

The mentally more challenging bit was how I started to think about weight loss, weight control and lifestyle choices. Being overweight is our family trait just as food stands to attention in our presence. I ditched the cleaning job and thought about exercise that I do enjoy, like the odd game of football and dancing. I’d far rather “wiggle my booty” on a football field, in a club or around my living room than in a hotel bathroom where a peacock couldn’t even spray it’s feathers!

Football, dancing and surgery for weight loss

I then embarked on trying to eat healthily while less periodically playing football with the local youth group, and more periodically dancing. My doctor recently enquired about my weight and I explained how I’ve tried for years to change the way I live and lose weight. I’d even visited sites like gastricbands.co.uk so see what it could tell me.

Over time, I’ve watched my diets and my methods of trying to lose weight just increase my weight. After recounting my endless weight gain struggle, my doctor told me about how weight loss surgery, such as gastric band surgery or gastric bypass surgery, could help an obese person like myself not just lose weight, but make the right lifestyle choices and cope with the proper support. Cleaning exercise had its motivational purpose after all… I’m going to have weight loss surgery, play a little footie and dance the booty!