My sixteen year old daughter recently joined our health club. She has been persistent in asking for a gym membership for the past couple of years and we felt it was the right time for her to join. I’m proud of her for desiring to be healthier; but I must mention it wasn’t always that way for M.Thuy or any of my kids.
When I started our family on a new health journey eight years ago, it came with resistance at times. We switched to organic foods and natural health, earth friendly products and my kids were guinea pigs to all of the things that I discovered for them to try. From berry flavored leather fruit strips (aka healthier version of fruit roll ups, but without the artificial flavor, colors & sugars), organic lollipops to soy hot dogs and soy ice cream. The soy hot dogs were gross! Poor kids!
Anyway…Sundays after church is usually a day of rest and I typically don’t like planning anything. With a new membership, my daughter M. Thuy wanted to go to the gym and because I didn’t make it the last two days, I thought maybe I should join her. So… off to the gym we went. It was the first time we worked out together. Boy, that girl can run on the treadmill, while I walk a steady pace because I like to read (well, speed read).
I’ve been a member at our health club for a few years but I never noticed the vending machines. As we exited the Women’s Only work out room, my daughter points to the vending machine and says, “Mom, what irony…having a vending machine with junk in our health club!” She’s absolutely right! And the one next to it was a soda machine.
It’s not what I expect to see in a State of the Art heath facility promoting well-being. I would like to see health clubs put in vending machines that offered a healthier selection, such as protein bars, protein shakes, organic iced teas and more water. But if they’re going to sell chips and candy bars, why not at least include baked or pita chips as appose to the ones seen in this photo? Maybe I should start a new business offering healthy vending snacks. Just. A. Thought.
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We tried the soy dogs too. My oldest son said they were tolereable if generously loaded with condiments. Would love to see good vending choices, in the mean time we have to plan ahead to bring it ourselves.
Oh my goodness! No way! I hope everyone there has turned their eyes ~ LOL … wow!