I need to write this down before I forget!
Tomorrow (Friday): C25K W4D2
Saturday: maybe Curves? Most likely a rest day.
Sunday: W4D3 (FINALLY)
Monday: rest (doctor’s appt)
Tuesday: W5D1 (yikes)
Wednesday: Curves (30-min circuit + Zumba!)
Thursday: W5D2
Friday: rest
Saturday: Curves
Sunday: W5D3
I can honestly say that right now I’m looking forward to all of this!
Six weeks (almost seven) is how long I’ve been on this fitness journey.
Only now am I feeling like I’m hitting my stride.
C25K is helping. Am I a runner yet?
Curves is going to help. Am I building muscle yet?
But what’s really helping?
You. Every single fitblr/fitspo blog I see. Every single marathoner whose tag I track. Every single person striving to make their lives better and every single person who is living life according to their terms.
Thank you all for inspiring me. We’re all getting to the promiseland. Thanks for letting me watch your journey.
Farthest I’ve gotten. I thought yesterday’s W4D1 was going to be disasterous since I had to take time off to nurse my pneumonia, but it was actually the best yet! I really like the C25K program - the three minutes runs feel so easy compared to the five minute ones. Its nice to see and feel my progress. I also reserved energy and set a 15:21 pace for my last 5-minute jog and I got through it!
I also might have found a C25K buddy! Its hard to find people who are willing to set their run paces as slow as mine (I’m a turtle) but she’s willing and also wanting to start slow with the C25K. Its also been hard since all my friends are still in college and I work out when they do homework.
Hitting up Curves tonight for the first time. I’m doing the circuit stuff and then hanging out to do a Zumba class. Pumped! I’ll let you know as it goes.
I need new people to follow- I unfollowed everyone who hasn’t updated their blog for months- all those who were clearly only in this for the Summer.
Reblog this if you’re losing weight through winter too and I’ll follow you!!
(Source: becomingamazing, via just-being-jacqui)
I only follow 55 people right now, and I want to follow somewhere between 200-250 fitspo and health/fitness blogs. Reblog this post and I’ll check your blog out!!
Off I go.
C25K W4D1 (repeat) - I am going to own you!
Greetings, friends!
I thought I would give you all a photo from AIDSWalk-Phoenix a couple of weekends ago. This is also somewhere near a full-body shot.
And yes, that is a stormtrooper. <3
Here I am, in all my sweaty-foreheaded glory, squinting into the sun. Expect more pictures of my sweaty-foreheaded glory as I run further into this journey and get my computer back.
Since it’s the last day before I can restart C25k (W4 again), I am going to a Curves down the street to check it out. I’ve heard really really great things about it, and after this past weekend I’ve realized I need more structure in this fitness deal.
I’m quite excited!
I feel like crying.
This means I can’t run again until early next week.
I am so upset and frustrated and know that I shouldn’t be.
I need to rest and let my body recover and not push my lungs or hurt them. To do that I need to not run.
But I was really looking forward to running tonight and moving past this week into Week 5 next.
I’m allowing myself to wallow in this upset-ness for a bit since I feel so awful.
Wah wah.
1. To be healthy.
A month ago I couldn’t run a minute without feeling about to pass out. Now I’ve run three. I’ve run five. I’m going to keep going. I want to feel healthy. I want to fuel my body with veggies and fruits and healthy proteins and healthy fats. I want to have the energy I used to have three years ago at my lowest weight when I ate wonderfully and had some exercise going on.
2. To get back my self - esteem.
I gained a massive amount of weight between last July and this July. We’re talking a good 30-50 pounds. I look at pictures from roadtripping to New Orleans to see the best band in the universe and all I can see is the difference between now and then. I don’t know why happened. I don’t know why it happened. What I do know is that while I love and appreciate my body, I don’t love it as much as I once did. I am for fat acceptance and I preach proudly and loudly about loving yourself.
But for me in this moment at this time - I can be happier with how I look.
3. I want to say I’m a runner
Yup. So true. I think this comes from having a marathoner for a father. I want to be able to say that I run, that I ran, that I am going for a run. I say these things now. People might even believe me. But until I hit some magical goal I’m not even sure of yet, I don’t feel like a runner.
4. Because this is my life now. Not a diet, or a one-time thing. Being healthy and fit is how I live my life now.
I am maintaining this promise and this pledge no matter what.
This is my life now.
That’s all there is to it.
