I did something today that I never thought I would do. Something that a year ago seemed impossible. I jogged for 13 minutes straight! I am still in shock that I could jog for an entire mile. I got some advice from my best friend Mike yesterday and I decided to take his challenge and then completely demolish it. He has a running trainer and his advice was for me to try and run for 7-8 minutes in a row and then walk for the rest of the half hour. I usually go out for a full hour so I figured maybe I should do that twice and I may still do that next week. Today it is raining, but not really raining, just that terrible misting that gets you wet enough, but not drenched. I started out walking for about 5 minutes and then stopped to stretch a little and then I was off. I had a small goal of getting to the end of the block and since that only took a few minutes I kept going…and going. I finally decided to stop at the street that I usually park on to go to the beach. I was shocked when I checked my iPod and 13 minutes had passed.
I’ve been able to do 3.5 miles a day since I added in the jogging to my walking but since the weather was getting worse I decided to cut it down and walked for the rest of the 2.5 miles. I cannot even begin to describe how great I feel right now (as I eat my Lean Cuisine pepperoni pizza – jogging makes me hungry) and I think that this time I am hooked for good. I am obsessive about most things in my life and I had hoped that one day that could translate to some sort of exercise again. I’m so glad that day arrived sooner rather than later.
I have also been trying to switch my weigh in day to later in the week and in the morning but it didn’t work out until today. I’ve been struggling to reach my 10% goal at Weight Watchers (21 pounds) for several weeks and I was really hoping that the last 2 weeks of exercise would get me there. I got up and out of the house early today (which is HUGE for Nate and I because we are a complete mess in the morning) and after I dropped Nate at school I went to WW and hoped for the best. I was so excited to see that I was down another 1.8 pounds for a total of 21.2!!! I am feeling great and looking better and I love that my clothes are fitting better or falling off of me…like my pants today. I needed a really good day to get me into the weekend with a positive attitude and the knowledge that if I keep going I will be able to lose another 31 pounds and maybe even run a 5K one day.
Even Weight Watchers got excited for me lol
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