Wowsers... It's been more than a year and a half since I blogged here and I'm more than 16 pounds heavier (boo!). At least I was the last time I weighed myself which was February 1, 2013.
In December I joined the Move More Eat Well class over at Big Picture Classes, which started January 1. MMEW is a scrapbooking/healthy living class taught by Cathy Zielske , designed to inspire and motivate you the whole year long, and to help you document your progress. I'm not really participating over there at all, but I am using the digital files and scrapping my progress in a very simple way. I can't seem to get past the first few minutes of each video, and I haven't shared any pics or posted to the gallery, but I actually do find it helpful just to know I could go there for inspiration if I needed to. It's also good just to have committed to a project related to this journey because that will hopefully keep me going through tough times. The class seems to have lots of helpful info for people who are looking for motivation and inspiration to work out and eat well. For me, I just need to do it, not read about it or talk about it.
I started January 4th with the goal of just doing something every day. My One Thing for the month was to move 6 days a week, and I did accomplish that in January. I'm trying to become healthy and figured weight loss would be a happy little side effect. I reset my goal for February to be to work out 4 days a week and think about eating better.
Most of my workouts have taken place on my treadmill. Scott bought me a special clip that attaches my iPad to the treadmill so I can watch scrappy videos while I work out. Although I am an anti-runner, I quickly found that walking on a treadmill is the most boring task on earth, even with video entertainment. I also found that running on a treadmill is not nearly as hard or painful on my knees than running outside on pavement. So this non-runner has been running. I started running one minute runs in each 10 minute interval of a 40 minute workout. Then I moved to 2 minute runs in each 10 minute interval. This past weekend I ran my first 60 minute workout. Now I'm up to 3 minute runs and I'm often doing run2, walk 2, etc. most of my workouts are 40 minutes. I work fairly long hours 3 days a week so I try to workout the other 4 days.
As far as eating well, I've been just trying to make healthier choices. I stopped eating candy several months ago and that has made a huge difference in how I feel, health-wise. I'm trying to only drink water, milk and coffee (can't give up my java) but I'll sometimes have juice (but no pop). I'm trying really hard not to snack in the evenings but I'm still working on that one. I find if I have a project to work on (my YouTube channel or project life) while I watch TV it helps me not eat.
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