Wednesday Weigh in Week 10

I just looked at that...10 weeks!! Longest I have done this weight loss stuff and seriously been committed to it. :) Whew.

Leap Day!! Happy Birthday to my cousin A :) She turns 3 today...eeer 12! Boy I am getting old!

Anways..I know you want the picture....

1.2 pounds this week.

Not too bad all things considered. Brings my February total to 5.4 pounds. and my year total to 19.2!

Would I have liked to have done better this month? Well yeah. But 2 months in sitting at 19.2 when my goal was 20 leaves me a pretty happy girl. I am still on track to meet my goal and tomorrow is March! Time to get some new goals for the month before I blink and it's April!

Happy Leap Day!

Couch to 5K easy run?

I think somewhere I have crossed a line. I have gone from Oh I could never be a runner to Oh that was an easy 12 minute run. 

Um Hello?!?!?!?! Really?

I started week 6 of Couch to 5K today. A 5 minute warm up, 12 minute run, 3 minute walk, 12 minute run, and a 5 minute cool down.

I winced a bit right before the voice told me to start running and said a quick little Jesus Help me prayer. And took off. And I kept going, and going and going ;). And by the time he told me to stop I had run for 12 minutes. I wasn't breathing incredibly hard and it felt good. And I walked for 3 minutes turned around and started over. It was kinda crazy good.

I don't know what has come over me LOL!

I get to do this two more times this week and next week the 12 minute run increases to 3 times. We shall see how easy it becomes then. And the next week is the week I start to run 30 minutes at a time!

But at this point I am not really all that worried. I feel like I have looked the fear of running in the face and told it who was boss. (That would be me, by the way) I am no longer really afraid of running for weight loss, I actually enjoy it a little bit now. I am going to have to come up with some amazing playlist for when I just want to start running without the c25k program telling me when and when not to run. I mean by no means is my 5k going to get done in 30 minutes right now. But in 37 minutes I had done 2 miles and that's pretty stinking good for me!

I texted my friend after my run and told her of my "easy" 12 minutes runs.

It's official. I am a runner...

What's your choice?

Why does choosing have to be so hard sometimes. I think a lot of life is just based on making choices. Like I could really choose to eat bread, cheese, or milk at any time in my life right now. And let me tell you life would be so much easier!! I seriously had some goldfish crackers staring me down in the face today. But I chose not to eat them. That's not taking me where I want to be. At some point in my life will I be able to eat those foods again? I hope so! I really do. I miss just grabbing a cheese stick because it's easy. Or gosh eating some ice cream. Or having a hamburger with a bun and ketchup. But I have to keep looking at the food that I eat and thinking if it is causing me more harm than good to my body. Because I am not going to put it into my body if it is doing that. You know?

But it really just makes for a lot more preparation. And sometimes that's just so hard! Like I didn't really have time yesterday to cook some chicken for my lunches at school. So I went to the deli, thinking I might save some time and money. Well the thick slices of chicken that I got ended up still being 12.00 which was more than the chicken breast that I could have bought to cook. Now the chicken isn't bad. But I still came home after a full day of church last night and had to cut up the chicken into cubes for my salad and cook my noodles to go into my salad.

The silly thing is, I do really well on a restrictive diet. At least on this one I have. Now have I had frozen yogurt a couple of times and some fritos and gluten free tortilla chips?Yeah. mashed potatoes, and french fries? You betcha. So I'm not necessarily cutting everything out like I probably should be. But I can tell when those foods are affecting my body. So I kinda have this sense of I must be doing something right!

So I ended up paying for my running two days in a row last week! LOL! My upper legs were so stiff and sore the next two days and I still haven't worked out at all since Friday. Today I had an excuse, I got my haircut for the wedding :) SHORT! And I love it! But I did it in place of a workout. Somehow I have to get my workouts to more than just the 3 days of running that I am doing. To lose 100 more pounds it's going to take a little more effort. And me telling people no, that I can't do things because I have to go workout. A little bit more than half hour a day. So I am kinda gearing myself up for that. I am going to hit it pretty hard after the wedding. I am so close to being on track for an average of 10 pounds a month. I just need to hit it a little harder, and I will have more success at it :0)

Switching it up

So today was a little different. My teacher's daughter was still sick so she didn't come in today, so it was just the other Para and I. We managed to get a lot done in the four hours I was there I thought :) That was nice. And then I came home and thought I was going to relax before the hockey game I was going to tonight.

Until I looked at the weather for tomorrow. We are under a strong wind advisory. Again. And outside it looked like this:

Bright and Sunny! So I decided to do a big no-no in the C25K world. I ran two days in a row. I really didn't want to be trying to run in 20mph wind gusts tomorrow. It makes breathing kind of hard ;) So I did it today. And now that the time that I am running gets longer, the intervals get shorter so it seems shorter to me? I don't know. I am coming up to the part of the program where I didn't make it before. I don't remember last year at what point I just gave up on the program and started running miles instead. I am determined to see this time through though. Could I go out and run for 30 minutes straight right now? Eh maybe. I just finished 8 minutes. And Tuesday starts two weeks of running 12 minutes at a time. So in 3 weeks I will be running for half an hour. That's good LOL! I can wait that long.

I am however going to lose my track to the lovely spring sports that start next week. :( I usually run right after school because it's just easy to go straight there. And they are going to be practicing right after school as well as meets on Thursdays. So I gotta find a new place. I really don't like running on the street. I had some dogs come at me once last year and I would rather try to stay away from neighborhoods because of that. So I am probably going to have to head down to the park to start doing it. Luckily it's staying lighter longer now, so I am able to be outside to do it!

Once again..

It was one of those days. I'm so glad it's "Friday" and the kids don't come tomorrow. I mean we only had them 3 days this week and two out of three were just crazy! But we seriously are on the downward stretch of school. June will be here before we know it and these next 3ish months will fly by.

So it was FINALLY nice enough to go outside for my run today :) So back to the track I went. I don't know what I am gonna do when the kids start track and take over the track after school. :) I kinda view it as a safe place to run, even if I am running around in circles. It's by a main road and it's not blocked and people can see me. Not like I am running between parks and you have no idea who is around. I know, crazy weird thoughts. But I think those things when I run by myself ya know?

Running outside is much easier than running on the treadmill. Except now I really need to figure out my running stride so I can enter it into my fitbit. Because once again today I crossed two miles as I was finishing up week 5 day 2 (although this day on the app was messed up), but when I got home my fitbit had recorded 2.65 miles. And that was before it fell off of my pants and sat on the ground for almost a whole lap around the track. I was slightly irritated. But very glad that I was at least in an enclosed area and I knew I would be able to find it. Those things cost 100.00 and I really don't have the money to buy a new one. I need new shoes first!

So at any rate the fitbit says my pace was around a 16 minute mile when in reality it was closer to a 20 minute mile which is normal for me. So I ended up running slower today than last week when I did it in the 37 minutes. It's just kind of weird to be running at different paces? You think I would run the same all the time right? I don't know. Just seems weird to me.

I did notice however, that after my run when I was stretching, it was much easier to lift my leg up behind me. I was pretty much touching my behind with the top of my shoe. Which was surprising to me that I could do that. I have been kind of watching my body change, and I think after an almost 20 pound loss, I can say that I am noticing some differences. Which is a big motivator to keep going for sure.

Wednesday Weigh in Week 9

Whew! This week I feel like my body doesn't hate me! Which is a good thing. I was kind of getting a little bit worried. But this week it was 2.6 pounds instead of .08 and that made me happy. :)

Which brings my total of 9 weeks to 18 pounds! Which averages to 2 pounds a week, which is what I wanted to lose. So that actually makes me completely happy to know that no! I am not behind. I am right on track :) I mean like every person I would like to lose more. But I have learned that I don't want to go all Biggest Loser and lose crazy amounts of weight each week. It would not be healthy for me.

This has been a very quick two months. It's gone by much quicker than I thought it would. But doesn't it always? And the cold/rain/snow/wind that we have gotten this week is driving me crazy. I am wanting to get outside to do my runs. And I am waiting for that day when one day a week turns into two days and then three days a week :) I can run in the cold, and the rain, and sometimes the wind. Snow is not something I want to run in. But I have a bike I can cross train on :)

Anyways. I feel much better about the weight loss this week. I am just happy it didn't shoot back up horribly. I mean it did go up .4 but that is not horrible. At least the main number stayed the same ;) I am doing really well exercising the 3 days a week that I am doing C25K but have been lacking the other two that I want to do. I have to figure out how to get that bumped up. But overall I am happy.

Oh! Did I say yesterday that my runs were 8 minutes with a 2 minute walk? Um yeah. I ran for 24 minutes yesterday and walked 6. Plus warm up/cool down. I still walk at a slower pace on the treadmill, and I don't know if I had the fitbit placed wrong or what. But they both said I did less than 2 miles which bums me out. For sure if I was out on the track I would have hit 2 miles.

But I still did it :)

Can I just scream now?

Ever have one of those days? Yeah. One of THOSE days. That just make you question your sanity or want to rip your hair out?

Well that would have been today :)

But I made it through. And the thought that crossed my mind hasn't really crossed my mind before. "Boy I can't wait to go running"

Yeah. I might be getting hooked ;)  Except that I would have loved to go running outside, but with the oh 40ish mph wind gusts we were having at the time I wasn't going to attempt it. I am praying for better weather on Thursday so I can do that. After walking outside at 5:30 today and realizing it was still light enough for me to have finished running outside that was good enough for me. Now this rain and wind and what the heck snow yesterday needs to go away so I can be outside. For real.

Whew, I just looked at the weather channel for the rest of the week, and if they are right I will be making it outside :) Better find my outside running stuff!

Well I am going to go get ready for bed since it's weigh in day tomorrow :) Wednesday just keeps coming fast I tell you what. It just better be a better number than last week or I need to seriously start re-evaluating things. I don't like lose 3 pounds during the week EXCEPT on the official weigh in day and then go up to only .08. Nope. That doesn't make me a happy girl at all :(