Ok... so I've been exercising. It's kind of a two fold thing. I'm trying to loose weight since I really needed to loose about 40 pounds. I'm trying to exercise 6 days a week, but not stressing if I miss a day here or there. I'm also trying to get into running. I enjoyed running in jr high school, but have not really run since, and what running I did back then- wasn't intense or any long distance or anything.
So I've been slowly running short amounts of time, and walking between- doing intervals... last week I decided to just try and see if I could run for 10 minutes straight... and I did! It was so close to a mile, that today I decided I would try for the mile.
I ran a whole mile straight! I didn't stop, I didn't have to slow down throughout the mile. I went a whole mile at the same steady pace! WOOO HOOO!!! After the mile I did bump the pace down a little bit, but then I was still able to jog about 1/3 mile afterwards before I went down to walking. I'm finally seeing some progress and it is really cool!!
Also I lost 6 pounds since the begining of the month. I'm trying to stay away from the sweets, but I have eaten some- usually at special occasions. I'm not dieting, but just eating smaller portions and really thinking before I just munch and grab stuff to snack on. I've cut out a lot of my snacking and am finding out that I'm not really hungry when I snack, I'm just snacking to snack, and that makes it easier to just not grab those snacks. :)
2 comments:
Awesome, Julie! Doesn't it feel GREAT to hit that goal? And it will just get better and better for you as your mileage amps up! Keep at it! :)
Keep it up and you'll totally be joining the triathlete club in the ward! Great job!!!
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