Showing posts with label Couch to 5K. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Couch to 5K. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

I'M BACK!!! Again? Are you Serious?

Seriously, how many times can I come back to my blog and be "serious"? I guess as many times as I become inactive! Always good intentions, but not always good follow through. So, in a nutshell, here is what has happened in the last six months:

  • Feeling depressed, weight going up, having problems with my knees making it difficult to do anything (weight hits all time high somewhere in here).
  • Dec. - Jeff and I decide to recommit, decide to go with Body Bugg to track food and calories.
  • Do well at first, plateau a bit, but keep on trying. Lost about 20 lbs. so far
  • Started P90X, now in week 6
  • Starting Couch to 5k this week (again!)
So, that is the basics, I will go into more detail on some of the above in the future, but writing something instead of nothing is a good first step for me today!

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Watching what I Eat

My weigh in this week was not as good as I had hoped, but I did lose weight, just under 1 lb. with a weight of 227.2. Lets face it, weight loss is unpredictable! I had five great work outs and ate well, but just didn't lose the weight. I will just keep doin' what I am doin' and hopefully will see more of a loss this week. I guess all is good as long as the scale keeps going down!

Now, I realize that I have often mentioned what I am doing for exercise, but never how I am watching what I eat. I am using WeightWatchers Online to track how many points of food I eat each day. I am allotted 28 Points per day and then 35 Bonus Points each week. Having done Body for Life before, I use the Bonus Points on Sunday and treat that day as a type of BFL "Free Day".

At the beginning of last year I went to some WeightWatchers meetings with a friend for just over a month, but the meeting are not for me. The meetings just feel like a big commercial push for WeightWatchers products. I know it makes things easier to eat their foods because it tells you on the packaging the point values, but I don't believe that prepackaged, frozen foods are very healthy. I prefer to try to focus my diet around whole, natural foods.

I do, however, like to track my Points. It is an easy way to control how much I eat in a day. I can also satisfy my sweet tooth with one or two small treats a day that only have one point each. And on most large chocolate bars or bags of candy, one square or piece is one point.

Well, on to other things. My 2 mile run on Friday went really well. I am now on week 6 of the Couch to 5k running program. The plan is again different each day, accumulating in running a steady 2.25 miles non-stop this friday.

Keep on runnin'!
MJ