Saturday I walked a 5k on the treadmill. It took almost an hour but it was 3.1 miles. My longest yet! However, the incline thing-y was broken so it was on zero. But I thought, "You know what? I was only putting it on 1 or 2 anyways, I'm sure it doesn't make that big a difference." On Monday, I set an incline of 1. ONE. I have no idea how the incline is measured, mind you, but it was at one nonetheless.
Holy flippin' cow! It made a huge difference! My calves were burning, I couldn't go as fast, it was just sad. So because of that... new plan. Walk on 1 for a more time efficient calorie burn, run on 0 to try and get some distance to how long I can last. (longest consecutive run to date: 2 tenths of a mile. Sad? Maybe. But it's still DOUBLE what it was last time!) I know this is minutia and all, but hey, you're reading a weight loss blog. You're lucky I don't map out a daily calorie count.
So since last I blogged, I worked out Saturday, Monday, and today (Wednesday). Yesterday was hard. I just wasn't feeling it. Dieting, working out, the whole thing. For the first time my will power was really low and I started thinking about foods I hadn't eaten in a while. Internal monologue time!
"You know what I want? Potato chips. And not those awful Special K cracker chips. They might as well charge ten dollars for eating air. I'm talking fried, salty, crunchy, Lays classic potato chips in the yellow bag. I can have some, right? I mean, I've been so good lately, a few chips won't hurt anything. But no! No! I shouldn't! I JUST blogged about trying to become a runner and loosing weight in the process! What about inspiring people? What about all the good progress I've made? Oh, c'mon a few chips won't destroy all that..."
This insanity went on all day at work Tuesday. What can I say? Some days work is so repetitive is doesn't take a lot of brain power. So you know what I did? I bought myself some freakin' potato chips, that's what!
I realized that if I try to deny myself something forever, this can't go on as a long term thing. I think maybe that's what I did wrong when trying to loose weight in the past. If I ever gave in and ate something I wanted I thought, "Well! There goes the diet!" But now, I know that craving is satisfied, I know only ate one of the single serving bags, and tomorrow I can wake up and try all over again. All is not lost.
Before I ate them, I weighed myself. 172.0! With my weak will power, I just needed to see that all the hard work was paying off. And it was! I'm gonna flip when I see the 160's!
Is it weird to announce my weight on a blog? I know ladies aren't supposed to do such things. But for cryin' out loud! I know I'm going to be following it closely so why not let you in on it? I don't feel weird about it, so I hope you don't either.
I think you're super amazing for being so open about it. It reminds me of that Tyra episode wear she has all the audience members wear bathing suits with their weight on the front...you know the one! You inspire me to maybe think about exercising possibly sometime in the future. ;) Maybe when it's not so hot!
ReplyDeleteHey!! I, too, am working on losing weight. I wanted to let you in on a running program I used called "Couch to 5K". It basically assumes you have no capability to run, which I did not when I started. It ramps up really easily and by the end it has you saying weird, inhumane things like "I can't wait to go for a run" or "man do I ever love running". I know, weird right?
ReplyDeleteSo, you may have heard of it before, but when you want to move from walking to jogging, google C25K. It's a great program and there are a lot of apps that have music and timing right for it! Good luck!!!
Way to go, Robin! Harry and I tried "dieting" if you will and you are right, denying yourself something you want is basically only gonna make you want it more. So now we're all about portion control. Which is working just fine. I'm actually less hungry than I used to be, I think. And I had a couple of oreos last night and it was no big deal. Anyways, you are inspiring me. I'm gonna go running tonight. All because if you :)
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