Welcome to my blog. I've been thinking about creating one for some time now. I have to do enough writing already now for school, but this is for fun and for me... and maybe for you too.
Why write a blog? Selfishly, to keep myself on track and motivate myself by making this commitment to write a blog. Maybe some others can gain something from it as well.
This is mainly going to be about my ongoing journey with losing weight, getting healthier and exercise. No weighing in and posting hard numbers in black and white for all the world to see - no thank you. That's just a little too Biggest Loser/too much reality for me! Let's just say that when I step on my Wii Fit board and do my Body Profile or whatever it's called, it speaks to me.... in a tone that sounds like it's really disappointed in me. Enuf said. Great for your self-esteem! Yeah well, screw you too, Wii Fit Fiona or whatever the heck your name is!
My goal is to be much healthier within the next two years, and removing some medications from my life, which will also have to include a significant weight loss. But it seems too daunting if I think of the sheer amt of poundage to lose. So let's just take it 1 step at a time.
Speaking of steps, I began the Couch To 5K running plan about 6 weeks ago. I learned about it from some other Facebook friends. For those that haven't heard of it, just like the name indicates, it's designed to take someone who isn't exercising (from the couch) to the point of running a 5K at the end of the 9 weeks. The C25K app that follows this program is one of the few apps I have paid for on my ITouch. It incorporates music and a prompt for running and walking, plus keeps track of the dates of your runs and you can add a note each time as to how you felt, etc... I even signed up for a 5K as a goal to work towards - my first ever - to correspond with the end of the program. I was coming along pretty well on building up my running over the last weeks. When you start from barely being able to run 25 ft, it doesn't take much to improve upon that! But I didn't take into account that this training program was proably not designed for someone of my size. And so, I couldn't progress as much as the program prompts you to. I would have to repeat each week twice before I was ready to increase my endurance. And having a pesky flu virus a few weeks put my program on hold for a full 10 days. Which means at the end of 6 weeks, I am still on week 3, with my 5K less than 3 weeks away. I began to get discouraged and think "What was I thinking?!" Me, run a 5K - you must be joking! I am so not ready to run a 5K!
Also when I found out that the 5K I am signed up for in Portland goes right through the Old Port and Congress Street which means that my fat behind will be parading right through the city. Not a pretty image to imagine!
Plus I am doing the Alzheimer's Memory Walk this Saturday which is a c. 3-4 mile walk, and so I started focusing my attention on the distance of c. 3 miles which I was far from, instead of on running.
In summary... whaa.... whaaa........ call the whambulance.
And then tonight.. I went for a moderate length walk with my husband this evening that turned into a walk/run for us, each taking turns running what we could. And I did pretty well, considering I haven't run in over a week now. Plus I felt great afterwards! The endorphins go pumping through my bloodstream better than others sometimes, and sometimes I feel terrific after I run, like I could conquer the world. There's nothing else like it! This motivated me to stick with my goal of the 5K, and I will just run what I can and do my best, instead of feeling like a failure that I can't run it entirely and not doing it at all, which I had been seriously considering.
So I'm back in!
I don't promise a daily post to this blog, just enough to update my progress (or lack of) and when I have something interesting to say or an epiphany.
And in the meantime... if you see something coming towards you that you can't at first identify as you are driving down the road in my little rural part of the world, it could be this Large Lady On The Move.
Until next time....
LLOTM
My family
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