Saturday, April 30, 2011

My First 5K!

Today I ran my first 5K, thanks to my friend Amanda at Diary of a Mad Fat Woman! Thanks for being such an excellent motivator, Amanda!

I feel AMAZING! I finished in 41:57, which was faster than my 45 minute goal! Since I've only done the entire 3.1 miles ONCE before that (and on a treadmill!) and it took over 45, I thought that it was a good goal. I was so unbelievably happy with it, especially since I didn't even push myself as hard as I could have because I was worried about pacing myself. I'm going to do as many 5Ks as I can this summer. I am seriously so excited!

Monday, April 4, 2011

This Weekend

*Losing another pound!

*Successfully fitting a burger restaurant outing into my diet (and keeping it vegan!)

*Going shopping and only coming home with an exercise ball to sit on at work and an armband for my iPhone for the 5k. :)

*Actually looking forward to going to the gym to run!

*Running for 8 minutes straight! I can't remember the last time I did this... I think it may have been NEVER. Even when I played sports, drills always stopped and started again. Now I can run 3/4 of a mile!

*Realizing that my gym clothes are getting waaaay baggy! They were kind of big on me to start because I just wanted to be comfortable and not even have to SEE my body. Now they look kind of huge, even though I've only lost 5 pounds since we started running. I forgot how much of a difference the last 20 pounds I gained made! At least that will make losing the next 15 a huge thing!


Good stuff. :)

Friday, April 1, 2011

Goal Setting

I'm down three pounds in the past five days! I'm so happy that I'm finally getting started with tracking again on spark. (For those of you who don't know, sparkpeople.com is an awesome site for tracking calories. There's an app too! Let me know if you want to join and be friends on there!) It's even easier than it was before, because eating real food has made my formerly ravenous cravings almost nonexistent. Now my first goal is to lose 10 more pounds by the end of the month, because I'd like to be at 225 for my first 5k on April 29th. Finishing that is my second goal!

Speaking of the 5k, I'm so thankful to have friends who are into fitness and doing things like this now. It will be so fun to have a whole group of us doing the race! (Even though we won't all be running together.) My friend Amanda set up a Facebook event for it and everything to try to motivate everyone to do it. If she hadn't, I probably would be skipping it until I felt more prepared in May, but now I feel like I'll be missing out if I don't... so thanks for that, Amanda! You're a great motivator!