I am a slacker!

On blogging but not in the realm of exercise!!! I have been busy busting out the C25K program to prepare for my 5K next Saturday.  I won't be done with the program but I will have a good start!

This weekend, Trisha and I have a challenge and I am going to do a mock 5K out on the road by my house.  I have it mapped out for a couple hills and even a little dirt road! :) My husband helped me out by seeing how far 1.5 miles was from the driveway that I will use part of for my warm up.  He was amazed by how far I am actually going to go!  I think that helped him see how big and important this is to me and really how hard I have been working on this.  He wants to do it with me now!!!  :) 

This weekend is going to be busy.  Lots of family functions all weekend long! So I will be getting in lots of activity. 

I have been eating good.  Keeping the bad stuff (ice cream) to moderation and watching my calorie and sugar intakes.  I do see that I am way more hungry the more that I run!  I am on week 4 day 2 of my C25K and it isn't as bad as I thought it would be!  LOL! :)  Definitely hard, but doable. 

I will keep you posted on my run!!!  I am getting nervous!

Off to the races!

Or so it felt!  :)  I did day 1 of week 3 of the C25K and holy smokies it was tough! I never thought I would be doing this and I have started this program many times to only stop after week 1, so I have hit a milestone and I feel the need to carry on!!  I have downloaded a program to my phone so I have a little voice telling me to jog and to walk.  I need a play list though and I think then my negative thoughts won't be so daunting to me and it will be easier.  Today though, I just kept telling myself how good I was going to feel and that if Tricia can do it so can I!

It is about time to do measurements again.  I feel different so I want to know what the difference is! LOL! :)  But in the meantime, I took a pic of myself in the mirror after I changed back into my clothes after my lunch time workout.  Here is a pic of now...



 And here is me before...hmmm.  maybe i should pose like the one below and see??? I don't really see a difference! LOL!  and gee, my phone takes crappy pictures! 

So until next time folks...I am going to bask in the glory of finishing my workout and eat lunch! ;)  

Monday weigh in and such

So this morning the scaled tipped to 185.6 so that is a loss of 1.2 lbs for me!!! :) 

I have submitted my registration for the 5K Autumn Leaf Run on October 1st.  I want to jog the whole thing but I don't want to set myself up for failure, so I am doing the C25K training up until the race and I will do intervals accordingly at the race, and if I end up jogging the whole thing, that will be awesome!!!  I did sign up to be timed which I have never done in the past.  This is my personal challenge to me.  Something I can own in my health journey. 

I did get up this morning and do Day 3 of week 2.  I had two voices in my head...one telling me to "just stop and get my cup of coffee and relax, your too tired"...and the other voice, "just 15 minutes, you will feel accomplished when your done, you only have 2 more jogs until your done, your rockin for waking up and doing this!" Lucky for me, the good voice won! LOL! :)  My hubby keeps telling me good job and how proud he is that I am doing this.  It is nice to have someone support me and my changes and to eat differently and to step up with chores and make it a bit easier to fit in exercise.  Doing this race will give me the adrenalin to keep going and to challenge myself even more!!!

A week or so ago I got one of those weight lifting type magazine for women.  It has some good articles.  I don't have a gym membership so some of the weight programs are hard to do at home. But I have to say, after all these years, people still do the very same weight lifting exercises!!!  I laughed and told my hubby that nothing has changed!!!  So obviously, just like eating fruits and veggies and lean proteins, weight lifting techniques are pretty solid too!  Just put together differently!  HA!

So today the start of a new week in the weight loss world.  Clean slate!!!