Hiatus

Well unfortunately, Doctors orders, I have to take a break from jogging, until I can get my asthma flare up under control. The last couple weeks, I've been having trouble getting full breaths in, which (of course) is made worse by exercise, so until my Qvar starts taking full effect, I was advised to abstain from running for 7-10 days. I'm hoping it takes less time! or at the very least, when I can get back to running, that I can pick up where I left off (run the same distance), if not go farther then before since my lungs will be doing better. :) for now, still trying to work on portion control, for some reason that seems to be the hardest thing for me right now. Eventually I'll get it down, right?

6 pounds down!

I'm down to 199! I'm out of the 200's! yea! However my "diet" hasn't been too great the last couple of days with all these Valentine's goodies! and my exercising hasn't been that great so far this week, (I haven't done the 30 day shred at all this week! But I did manage to run almost a mile yesterday non stop, before switching to walking, I went just under 2 miles and ran about 1 1/4 miles. I used a handy little tool on livestrong.com that lets me track the distance, and with the route I was taking it wasn't quite 2 miles, like I'd like to get back up to, so I've figured out a new route that will be just over 2 1/4 miles. can't wait to try it out tonight. Yep, again skipping out on the shred, and replacing it with jogging :)

"Just a little bit further!"

That's what I tell myself each time I go jogging, I was so stoked when I went (roughly) a 1/2 mile of non-stop jogging before I had to revert to doing the walk a block, jog a block method. I can't wait to get back up to 2 miles again and maybe more! I'm becoming a big fan of Jillian Michaels now, I'm liking her 30 day shred video and almost can't wait to start her no more trouble zones. I find it oddly funny, that for someone like me who hated exercise videos and working indoors, that I'm starting to enjoy it! I still haven't dropped that extra pound that I gained the week before but I'll admit, there were a couple days that I didn't do so well on the "diet", also a couple days I didn't jog, but I did make up for one day by jogging the next day.

I don't know why it's so hard to get out jogging and eat better, but it is! I actually love jogging and love the way I feel after I've gone out but it's still hard somedays to get myself out there. Chewing gum helps about 50% of the time to ward off snacking, I'm also making sure I'm getting enough water, since I know that our bodies confuse thirst with hunger. If everybody would stop making such good tasting, bad for you food, it wouldn't be so hard. ;)

Hopefully I'll be able to report some weight loss next week, but I'm good with my 1/2 mile milestone :)

back on track

I didn't work out at all last week, and at least one or two days didn't do so well on "dieting" but I'm doing better this week, so far I've worked out everyday this week (Mon.- today) I did level one of the 30 day shred both monday and today, I didn't jog yesterday but after the 4 hour walk around the Keizer Station, I figured it was ok if I didn't jog. I did gain a pound back last week due to not exercising but I'm determined to lose it and then some! :)