3/1/12 247.2
2/16/13 170.4
Pounds lost in March: .7
Pounds lost in April: 3.5
Pounds lost in May: 7.0
Pounds lost in June: 7.1
Pounds lost in July: +3.8
Pounds lost in August: 2.0
Pounds lost in September: 2.4
10/4/13 157.8
10/13/13 160.9
That's alright. Honey badger don't care. It was a pretty solid week of staying on track. Knowing that behaviorally I turned the ship around after last week's carelessness is enough for now. I expect to see a nice drop next week.
Exciting news- I'm back in my running groove! It happened in the space of five minutes. It started simply enough- I followed a friend's link over to an article about Christopher Columbus on the Oatmeal, a website that publishes funny and informative articles and cartoons. While browsing the site after I read the original thing I came there to read, I came across this one:
The world around me is so very, very loud. It begs me to slow down, to sit down, to lie down. And the buzzing roar of the world is nothing compared to the noise inside my head. I'm an introspective person, and sometimes I think too much, about my job and about my life. I feed an army of pointless, bantering demons.
"Hey, remember that time you did that thing you were ashamed of? No? Allow me to remind you for no reason!"
"I'm going to recite this list of items that you have no control over, but should worry about anyway."
"Every single thing you do in your life, somebody else is doing a better version of it."
"Hey, your demons are a bunch of jerks! Forget those guys- let's eat this entire cake instead!"
So I'm starting from scratch with the Couch to 5K that I successfully completed last year. Chris is starting with me again, with no promises and no pressure to get all the way through it. We've done the first two workouts, which are both "Walk 5 minutes, jog 2 minutes, walk 5 minutes", and I've fallen so far in the months since I stopped jogging. On the first day, the measly two minutes felt pretty awful, and I thought "There is no WAY I could do 30 minutes right now", which made me a little sad because that was my regular workout- 30 minutes of jogging two or three times a week- a year ago.
But then the next jog was a little bit easier on both of us- in part because Chris found a better way for us to run, so that we're not experiencing any incline when we're just starting out- but in part because that's just how it goes. It's a little easier every time. By this time next week, we'll be up to 4 minutes, and the first 2 minutes will be a piece of cake. Here's the schedule we're using, by the way. I love it- it builds up so gradually, there's really no excuse not to give it a shot. Granted, I didn't get up to a whole 5K by week 10 day 7, because I'm pretty slow, but I got up to 30 minutes. It'll feel really good to get back to that.