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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Ah-Ha!!!! Lightbulb moment!


I tend to do a lot of self-reflecting this time of year. The month of November has so many events that are special/require. My birthday is the 3rd, I had my first date with my husband on the 14th, my cousin’s death was the 15th, my wedding anniversary is the 18th and my first divorce was final on the 27th.  Also, there is a little holiday in there called Thanksgiving. So I tend to do a lot of “remember when” and “I can’t believe it’s been…that long”.

 While recuperating from this icky illness I have been fighting something very important dawned on me. I have been losing weight for over a year, not very much at a time but I have made decent/good food decisions for quiet sometime now. I went back and looked at my online food diaries and I have been tracking my eating habits since August of 2011. Now, not everyday and there was a span of two weeks where I didn’t write anything down. I just wish that I would have tried harder and worked out more and maybe I would have been thinner sooner, but I wasn’t ready. I really feel like I am on the verge of making this my lifestyle and not just a means to an end.

 

I am finally feeling some sort of success with my running. Yesterday I went out to do a 30 minute run, with a 5 minute warm-up walk and a 5-minute cool down. I felt so good that I started running 2 minutes into the warm-up and I didn’t stop until I saw 3.1 miles on my Garmin. I ran for 36 minutes without stopping!

 

When I get home from work and working out I have enough energy to clean up the kitchen, do some laundry, and get everything ready for the next day without feeling like I am dying from exhaustion.

 

I really feel like I have reached a positive turning point on this journey!

1 comment:

  1. Glad to hear it! It really does need time to 'click' and then it will be less of a hassle and just more of how life it :) you are doing awesome!

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