I’ve been meaning to start going to the fitness center since we moved here but things kept coming up. However, today is the day!
I’m a little nervous because I’ve been pretty paranoid and scared to go outside, especially alone, but time to suck it up and get over it. I’ve got to do this.
I gained 2 lbs last week because I was so scared I was eating way over my calorie limit. But I did so much work yesterday cleaning that I already lost most of it.
My goal is to lose 1-3 lbs a week. I’m going to adjust my diet to eat more vegetables to replace some sugar calories with more nutrient dense calories. I’ve always limited carries, but I’ve realized recently that I’m eating too much sugar.
I know that may not sound impressive to most of you, but I used to run 10 miles a day until my body betrayed me and for the last 4 years I haven’t run more than 30 seconds total.
I was smart enough to do a short 15 minute walk first, because that 3 minutes completely ruined my knees. Hopefully not so bad that I can’t do it all again tomorrow. And, bonus, my lungs are awesome because even through all that 18 minutes of pathetic, but no less awesome, exercise I never even got out of breath.
I’m so distracted and I can’t figure out if any of this makes sense.
Good for you! I’m about a 15 second runner. Or maybe jogger is a better word. I don’t move fast. Keep up the hard work, and you’ll get better and better, and before you know it, you’ll be running marathons.
I think i need to start walking again. Reading posts from people who are actively taking on eating better and exercising inspires me to get off my fat ass and at least try to work on being more healthy.
Thanks for your post @LED and to everyone else who replied or posts about this sort of thing. I’m already trying to tone down my eating and I told my girlfriend I would stop buying meat/junk food and let her decide what we eat. She has been vegetarian since 1976 and she knows exactly what I should be eating.
It was a huge mistake. My knees are trying to murder me. My arthritis meds are not strong enough. I think I’m just going to sleep with ice packs on them all night.
Well, that didn’t take long. I’m getting obsessive about the 0.2 lbs fluctuations. Time to only weigh myself once a week no matter how curious I am.
@anon1571434 can you help me with my diet? Turns out I’m not eating enough and I’m eating too much sugar. When I count calories in my head I always round up, and when I ate a normal days foods and logged them in MFP yesterday I only came up with 1050 calories for the whole day, and about 300 of that was from drinking my calories (a soda, coffee creamer, and a glass of milk). Can you help me?
10 mi a day is exceptional, thats 70 miles per week! you are an idol to me! the mimost i ever ran in my life was 20mpw, half of that was a ten mi long run on saturday. i was dead after ten miles!
i’ve never raced officially myself, i have no natural talent so i wouldn’t want to embarrass myself. i just race against myself. sometimes i used to run with my younger brother though. i could never run 10 mi everyday without long time off for recovery.
