Monday, June 3, 2013

Since November of last year..

It's been way too long!
I believe my only excuse for not writing was that I forgot the password..
But even that wasn't true! LOL
So after my last post I pretty much lost hope. I kept gaining weight, as expected, with the holidays.
January hit and I was so disgusted with myself that I made that dreaded new years resolution.
I joined MyFitnessPal, joined a local gym, and began to slowly shed the pounds again!
I got all the way up to 225-230, continued with C25K on the treadmill at the gym.
One week I'm pretty sure I went to the gym 5/7 days.
But the car situation got pretty tight around the house so I wasn't able to take it for myself as much.
The weather was getting nicer, so I ran outside.
I hit a huge NSV! The 15 minute mile!!!
I haven't gone running in about a month by this time, and I've got my first 5k coming up in a couple weeks.
I'm severely nervous about it, but it's a run/walk so I know it wont be so bad knowing I can walk a little bit without looking bad.
I joined a fitness group on FB for a 90 day challenge. Today is the start of week5 and I've lost  11.8 pounds!!
I'm so excited to be further away from 250, and even happier to be closer to being back in ONEderland!
As some of you may know, I've been big since I was a child. I've only seen the 100s in my adult life once and that was about 13 months ago.

With this 90 day challenge, we have partners to keep us accountable, we post on MFP religiously, I even have an app that tracks my water for the day.
The water app has a pretty annoying notification counter that tells me how many more I need for the day.
It confused me for the first couple days because I thought it had news for me, LOL.

Being at 208.6, currently, really makes you appreciate the process.
Once you learn it's a lifestyle change, you're good to go and lose more!

Keep at it <3
Duck On A Mission / Running From 250