Current weight: 266
Total pounds lost: 20
Well here we are again. I can’t believe that it has been (oh my gosh I didn’t actually count it out until just now…) TEN MONTHS since my last blog. Yikes!
That is the perfect example of how easy things get away and how much time can pass in the blink of an eye! Here is the fast version of the past few months:
Christmas went pretty well actually. I slacked off at the gym but did pretty well tracking wise. Then January came and I sort of fell off the wagon completely. I was just about ready to go back to the gym and then Snowpocalypse ‘14 came and it was a crazy weekend at Starbucks… punctuated by me bruising my tailbone on some ice. That put off my return to the gym for at least another 6 weeks… and by that I mean I didn’t work out OR track for 6 months.
I can’t necessarily explain what clicked off in my brain a week ago, but it was just time. I had stopped my Weight Watchers account a few weeks prior because I was paying for something I hadn’t used in so long, so I downloaded a new app called SparkPeople. It is essentially the same thing, just calories instead of points, and it is free. There are no meetings to go to, but there is a weight tracker and we have a good scale in our apartment.
I also downloaded an app called C25k. The youth group at my church is holding a 5k in October to raise money for missionaries, and I have decided to run it. Yes, I said run. I can’t believe I am even typing those words. Me, the same person who is literally quoted in a high school yearbook as “I hate to run.”
But it seemed like a good goal, and it happened to be 7 weeks away from last weekend, and the C25k program is designed to get you from zero running to a 5k in 8 weeks. You’re supposed to train 3 days a week, which just means that 3 weeks out of 7 I will just add an extra day of training. I am already 4 training days in and haven’t died! Maybe wheezed a little bit, but haven’t died :-)
It has been 7 days since I started eating mindfully and doing the C25k app. I have been to the gym a record high of 5 times this week (thanks to my champion of a gym buddy and roommate, Tasha!) and I am already down 4 pounds. I am ready to pick up where I left off and do this!! I lost some of the ground I had taken, but not all of it. And it is a new day! I can do this. I WILL do this.
On a related note, the 5k I am running IS fundraiser. If you are interested in pledging money toward me and my run, let me know and I will get you more info!
And thank you to all the people who love me and encourage me even when I fail. I couldn’t do anything I do without the support system I have! I know that my weight and size are a small part of who I am, and that I am cared for no matter what I look like and I am thankful to have people who feel the same about me on my best and my worst days. Thank you thank you thank you :-)
So here we go… again!
So proud of you!
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