What the HECK!!!

This happens to me every time I start working out heavily. Last week I worked out 5 days, running for 3 days and biking of 2. I woke up this morning feeling really good about myself so I decided that I would weigh myself. That was my mistake... I hadn't even eaten breakfast or drank anything. I gained almost 2 pounds in 9 days. What the HECK!!!!! I know that weight isn't what I need to be concerned about it's the way I look and feel. I feel great and I think I'm looking a little better but that does not help my life insurance premium goal. In order to lower  my life insurance premium I need to be at 150 lbs. I was 158 now I'm up to 161. Really??? When will this gaining stop and I'll start creeping back down the scale? I'm not going to stop working out but I would love to see results on the scale not just my waist line (although that is nice!!).

Moving on

Jillian and I are not friends. I don't care if she tells me that she has 400 lb people who can do jumping jacks my body doesn't like them. When I get electric shocks in my shoulder blade every time I do the Shred it's not worth it. Sooo... I'm moving on to a new experiment. Running! That's right you heard me correctly, running.

The one time in my life that I considered myself a runner was in middle school. Even then I wasn't very good at it and was like the slowest person ever. I was on the cross country team 6th, 7th and 8th grade but when it came time to going into high school and increasing that running distance to 3.1 miles I dropped out. Call me chicken, fat, lazy, a loser, quitter, undedicated, undetermined, etc, etc, etc.... But I wasn't good at it so I didn't want to kill myself to just be embarrassed at the end of the race by quite possibly coming dead last two hours later.

So why start running now you might ask? Well it's just something that gets my heart pumping, so why not give it a whirl!?! I found and liked the program Couch to 5K (C25K). It is a 9 week program that should get me running 5K (3.1 miles, the same distance I didn't want to run in high school) by the end of it. It alternates intervals of running and walking, it builds up the running time slowly over time.

I'm feeling pretty confident with it! I started this week. I downloaded an app to my phone that tells me out loud exactly when the run and walk so I don't have to keep track. It's wonderful!!! (RunDouble)

I did it three times this week (Mon, Wed, Sat) while pushing the kids along in the stroller with me. One of these days when I get to do it without them I will feel like I'm flying! ;) They get a short afternoon nap and I get to exercise plus it's free, what more could you ask for? The only problem (besides the heat) is that every time I step with my right leg my knee pops really loud, it doesn't hurt just pops.

I think I'll keep it up because I really would like to be able to run a 5K sometime. So here's to 8 more weeks of jogging and I fitter me!!