Couch to 5k

I'm doing the couch to 5k. I started off on week 2 because of exercise I feel pretty comfortable. I think I could have started on week 3, but decided to not push it too hard. I am also about to start adding in swimming again. I look so forward to it.

Right now I've lost 15 lbs from my top weight, I still have another 45 lbs to go. I don't know if I'll be satisfied if I lose less than that, probably. As long as I feel fit.

I think I'll take it week by week. The holidays were hard, but I'm back on track.

Worn Muscles

Geez, being on vacation, I am nerve wracked over whether or not I'm losing weight. I still have my goal of losing 6 lbs over the holidays. I have no idea whether I'm going to make it. I think I have another 4 lbs to go. This makes it tougher vacationing, because all you do is eat out.

This year

This year has not been a great year for weight loss. Unfortunately I lose about 15 lbs but then during August/September put it back on when family visited and I got stressed. So I decided to turn to weight watchers.

Yep I decided el-cheap that I am to pay for help. I need to be held accountable. Which is funny because I find being $ accountable easy. I have no trouble accounting for every penny invested or spent.

But food? Well that's a different story. So in mid-October I signed up for weight watchers and have thus lost 12.8 lbs. My goal is to lose 10% of my body weight by 1/8/08. I think it's possible. I'm almost there.

I made it a stretch goal because holidays are a tough time to lose weight. But this path I've taken is different and new. It's no longer a diet. I don't diet, I am changing my lifestyle. I may have to live forever on this flex plan constantly counting, measuring, and evaluating what I eat.

2/11 Update

Today I worked out for 35 minutes. I also weighed in this morning for 173.2 lbs. Woohoo, I lose 0.8 lbs. I also worked out everyday the whole week. Somedays it was only 20 minutes, other days 45 minutes. I am trying my best keep up with this new lifestyle.

It is a lifestyle change and not a "diet". I am trying to become a healthier person. This is really difficult because I have to work on eating less. I am eating veggies everyday but I should eat more and eat smaller portions of food.

The focus of this week is eating smaller portions and maybe I should completely avoid dessert? I don't know, baby steps. I want to live normally but healthier.

First post

Okay, I have been blogging for awhile about my financial fitness. Now its time for me to become honest about my physical well-being and become physically fit. I am physically unfit and I hate it. I am a very yo-yo eater/dieter. I have been since meeting my husband.

Before DH, I never weighed more than 120 lbs because I am a terrible cook, never ate, went out a lot, and enjoyed life. Since meeting DH I have gained a tremendous amount of weight and pursued a less active lifestyle. This has to change. I want to have kids but I feel I am unable to even start considering trying without losing some weight.

Now the hard part is being real. I am 5'4" and I am about to weigh in at 174 lbs. Yikes. Until our move to NE I've been between 140-150 lbs. Then I gained those 25 lbs during a very stressful 2005 year. Now it's time to take it off and more. Last year I lost those 25 lbs and gained it all back in the last three months of 2006.

So here I am about to blog about it. This is it. I am putting probably my worse self foward.