Plan is to just use their air con so I can survive getting fit.
The biggest fence to living healthy to climb over is boredom. Part of why they upsell a lot at the gym is because the gym is about more than working out. The week should be filled with activities. Boot camps on the weekends. Exercise during the week. Cardio almost every day. Classes in different kinds of activities, from hitting the bag with gloves, to riding bikes, to walking, to group grocery shopping. The idea is, if you get bored, if things get stale, they become a chore, and nobody likes chores. Long-term, chores add up, we begin to see some of them as optional, especially exercise, and we start to cut it out of the schedule, eventually we spend more time sitting on the couch at some kind of a control, than we do anything else.
When the convenience of something easy to grab to sate hunger takes over and you aren't eating correctly anymore, you don't fuel the entire process. You want to fuel your activity, and avoid the potential for boredom. There's a crazy algebra at work to the whole thing, and it requires consistency and context. You have to keep track of measurements like the girth of your hips, waist, chest, the width of your shoulders, the circumference of your thighs and upper arms. This all has a meaning in comparison to how much you weigh. You can figure out, using your height too, how many calories you need in a day, how to divide it up so that your internal metabolism fuels the activity you are undertaking, so that you can increase your endurance, flexibility, strength, and focus.
It's like fine tuning a car. You can live with the ping, and the lack of horsepower on hills. Or you can make a few changes, and be consistent, and have a car that sounds and runs great, even on a grade.
It always feels like, yeah, they try to upsell the gym stuff, but there is a certain point between the sale, and the not getting any benefit from what you are doing. How many people do you see go to the gym and stay fat for 6 months, a year, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10. All that exercise does nothing if you are not fueling it in the right way, and maintaining your math.
When you find yourself resisting the activity. When 30 minutes on that machine is just too much. When you find yourself locking up. You have to look at why. Maybe you need to roll out for 10 minutes before your exercise, or roll out for another 5 minutes during, and 10 minutes after. Maybe you need a better way to warm up and cool down. Are you afraid of sweating? Do you think someone's looking at you sweat? You want to sweat. You want to be out of breath. You want to feel hot. This is what warming up is. It's getting things to work so that you are burning the right calories for the right reason to fuel continuing and succeeding.
People who stand in front of a fan at the gym drive me insane. You just spent 20 minutes warming up and you're forcing your body to cool back down. Way to go, super slick. You just defeated your own purpose.
In a nutshell, anything we do in life, we have to have some sort of a commitment to it, otherwise, you just get no benefit from it. There are better places to socialize than the gym. But you want to suffer, you want to have heatstroke, you want to crash. And then you want to change how you eat and how much water you drink so that you don't crash. You are creating a resistance. The way to battle that resistance dictates how you succeed or fail.