Wow, I actually ran.......

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Wow, I actually ran.......
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Mon, 10-03-2005 - 4:59pm

last night. On a weekend. ON A SUNDAY! I'm doing the Couch-to-5k runner's guide. I figure, it's a way to get me running, it's not CONSTANT running, and well, it'll build up my endurance, fast, w/o me feeling like I've failed. It's a 6-week guide. So far, I'm on week 3, but then again, I'm also doing "each week" for two weeks. I'm taking it slow.

My goal, is basically to run 4 days a week, if not more. I really want to lose the weight, and the more I think about it, the more I really want this, for health reasons alone.

So, this is my plan. I work out (run/walk for 20 mins), I do some weights, I have been cutting back on my calories (mostly dinner).

this is basically for me to get used to things. I figure, 30 mins total of run/walk is HUGE compared to, um, doing nothing. lol. So that should help get my butt in gear.

However, I also want to lose a lot in the next 3 months. Preferbly about 25lbs. It's not all that I need to lose, but it's a HUGE start and if I can start of 2006 at that weight, I'd be sooooo happy.

My question. What can I do, to ensure I lose at least 20lbs? I've lost 2lbs so far, in the past couple of weeks. I am measuring myself, more so than weighing, but still weighing. And I'll be taking measurements every other week for the first 1.5 months, then every week until the new year. I'll obviously slow down the closer I get, but still, it's just the way my spreadsheet is made up.

What can I do? Breakfast is cereal and 1% milk, snack is carrots or peanuts, lunch is either a sandwich, or going out (need to make better choices here), and dinner is basically a slim fast (gratefully, i'm not normally hungry by dinner time anyways). I'm run/walking for those 20 mins (5warmup/5cooldown, so 30 total). Should I up that later? about when? I started on 8 Mintues in the Morning, which is weights. although, i've been doing them AFTER my workout, cuz i'm not waking up early enough (working out keeps me up later, which then means, i wake up later).

Okay, so do tell, what can i do? more so? less?

ETA: I'm not going to incorporate anything more right now, but I figure, over the next, 10 weeks, I can incorporate whatever you guys suggest. :) SLOWLY. Trying to make this a habit. not just a one time deal.




Edited 10/3/2005 5:26 pm ET ET by inkeddogmom

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Mon, 10-10-2005 - 10:27am
Awesome Cher! Keep posting your success because it does remind me I've got to keep moving. Your right the hardest part is just getting to the gym! Once there and you get past the first 20 minutes, at least for me, I'm glad I came.

Gretchen


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Tue, 10-11-2005 - 1:11pm

CONGRATULATIONS!!!


Cher you are doing awesome!!!

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Tue, 10-11-2005 - 2:54pm
Okay okay, I admit, I've been slacking. I ran Friday, that was about it since. lol. I have been on a burger kick for some reason. NOT healthy. But I'm getting back on track today. :) Hey, 4 times a week, that's rough. lol.
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Tue, 10-11-2005 - 9:18pm

C'mon Cher....just thinking about you actually ;-)


Hope you got out for that run this evening!

~IslandGirl


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Registered: 09-15-2005
Tue, 10-11-2005 - 10:58pm

:) Okay, I'm going to move this to the journal folder. Since that's what it's turning into, :) I hope I can still motivate ppl from there. I posted the same thing there...so no need to read it today.

Okay, I got home from work, changed, chatted online with a friend for a few mins and said, gotta go run. So I went running. :) I think it's getting easier to GET there. And definitely easier to do it once I'm there :)

Lots of :) cuz I feel good, it's those endorphines I suppose.

I graduated to week 4 of the training schedule. It consist of the following:
3 run, 1.5 walk
5 run, 2.5 walk
3 run, 1.5 walk
5 run.

I honestly didn't think I'd make that first 5 minutes, but surprisingly, it was pretty easy. I wasn't huffing and puffing. I got through the second set of 3 mins running pretty well, more huffing. that last set of 5 mins running, okay i was breathing hard, but extremely surprising....I completed it w/o trying EXTREMELY hard. On a scale of 1 - 10, 10 being dying out there...I was probably at a 7. Huffing, but not about to pass out and can't breathe. y'know!!

I'm soo happy. Especially since I didn't run since Friday. My goal this week is...tomorrow, Thursday, Saturday (or Friday, rest one of those days), and back to sunday.

At this rate, we can HOPE for the 18lbs, and see that they MAY be reachable. :)

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