No more couch potato

I’ve been motivated lately to exercise more often and more meaningfully. After all I do have the Weekend To End Women’s Cancer Walk coming up in September which is a measly 30 km a day for 2 days.

So in order to do more "meaningful" exercise I’ve decided that I need to start running. I figure it can’t be that hard because everyone I see doing it always look graceful and almost like they are enjoying themselves. Ya, well to those people I give you a big F.U. ! (at least for now)

I decided I would start couch to 5 km. Seems easy enough and I’m a seasoned walker so I thought how hard can it be to throw in a few jogs every few minutes. Let me tell you ….it was bloody hard. I know it will get easier with time but for now it’s hard. I actually did Week One Day 1 and 2 all in one day. I know I probably should haven’t but the 6 k walk I usually always do was perfect timing for day 1 and day 2 so instead of wasting time walking back from day 1 I decided to start day 2 and finish it.  I feel like I look awkward when I’m running. Well more like a fast walk/jog but you know what I mean. AND my hips are so sore right now. I can only imagine what they will be like later.

Either way I’m going to stick with it and hopefully be able to run a 5k by the end of it. I really need to buy some better compression capris to wear so that my ass doesn’t feel like it’s flopping in the wind when I run. :X

And honestly the main reason I want to run is to speed up or help speed up the weight loss process. I weighed yesterday and lost 5 lbs in the last 2 weeks. I didn’t weigh last week because I ate like shit the previous week and didn’t want to go on a down slid if the scale indicated a big gain. That would have pissed me off and I probably would have eaten shit I shouldn’t have.  I attribute the shitty eating to premenstrual cravings. That’s out of the way and I’m back on track.

I still want to lose about 25 lbs so my weight will be within healthy range. I know I can do it. I did it before and then gained most of it back. Stupid me. This time I don’t care if it takes me 3 years to get to goal. Slow and steady is more likely to make me not binge so that’s what I’m doing.

My brother in law and sister in law are coming for 6 weeks from Calgary. I’m so excited! I’m excited for summer too.  Flip flops and tank tops here I come 🙂