Running_Girl
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Well this is it – day one of my weight loss/ get fit diary.
How did I get here – great question!! It all started about 4 weeks ago when I was at a works do (you know the sort of thing – free bar, late night etc etc). The next morning I woke up and found out I had a few memory blanks from the night before (Ok if I’m honest more than a few) as I sat at breakfast people gleefully filled me in on the nights entertainment – insisting my bosses boss did Jeager Bomb shots being a particular highlight – just as I thought it couldn’t get any worse those awful words got uttered “and you agreed to run a half marathon” – I didn’t think it was possible to get any paler than I’d been when I woke up but I’m assured I did.
“Oh” was my rather weak reply “OK”. This was greeted with what can only be described as hysterics with the general consensus being there wasn’t a chance in hell that I could do it
My ego would have been rather wounded if inside I wasn’t thinking exactly the same thing. I smoke 30 a day, I’m 1 and a half stone over weight, and I never run anywhere for any reason (heck if my train is about to pull out of the station I’d wait for the next one rather than embarrassing myself by running).
But then my ego did perk up a little bit – why couldn’t I do it – was it necessary for everyone to be quite so certain that I couldn’t/wouldn’t? And then that pesky pride thing reared its head and before I knew where I was I actually said “no seriously I’m going to do it” Oh crimes
So step one give up smoking - I’ve spent the last 4 weeks trying to do just that and I have dramatically cut down – I’m on about 5 a day
Step two get fit – I started taking long walks – anything from 5 miles to 13 miles tromping across hill and dale
The net result after 3 weeks was I had horrible blisters and had put on half a stone – not a great start.
Time for plan b - last week I went to the Nike store and got them to watch me running and they have sold me a pair of running shoes that I shouldn’t get blisters from and I took a bit of a break on the exercising to look after my poor blistered feet until they looked a little more human and less like a horror film.
So time to start again – learning from the mistakes of the last month I started the weight watchers diet yesterday (because I now have 2 stone to lose!!), the fitness campaign in the new trainers starts today (well it started yesterday when I cycled to the train station rather than driving), and today is my last day of smoking – now I can’t promise I’ll always be 100% on my diet, or that when it’s chucking it down with rain I wont skip the odd exercise sessions, or that I wont have a few drinks and sneak in the odd cigarette but I can promise that I’m going to share the next 5 months with you all as I try pretty hard to get into shape to run 13 miles at the end of September.
I’m working from home today, so the plan is three healthy meals and a 10 mile walk - finishing up with putting any remaining cigarettes down the waste disposal!!
Wish me luck – I’ll update you all later
How did I get here – great question!! It all started about 4 weeks ago when I was at a works do (you know the sort of thing – free bar, late night etc etc). The next morning I woke up and found out I had a few memory blanks from the night before (Ok if I’m honest more than a few) as I sat at breakfast people gleefully filled me in on the nights entertainment – insisting my bosses boss did Jeager Bomb shots being a particular highlight – just as I thought it couldn’t get any worse those awful words got uttered “and you agreed to run a half marathon” – I didn’t think it was possible to get any paler than I’d been when I woke up but I’m assured I did.
“Oh” was my rather weak reply “OK”. This was greeted with what can only be described as hysterics with the general consensus being there wasn’t a chance in hell that I could do it
My ego would have been rather wounded if inside I wasn’t thinking exactly the same thing. I smoke 30 a day, I’m 1 and a half stone over weight, and I never run anywhere for any reason (heck if my train is about to pull out of the station I’d wait for the next one rather than embarrassing myself by running).
But then my ego did perk up a little bit – why couldn’t I do it – was it necessary for everyone to be quite so certain that I couldn’t/wouldn’t? And then that pesky pride thing reared its head and before I knew where I was I actually said “no seriously I’m going to do it” Oh crimes
So step one give up smoking - I’ve spent the last 4 weeks trying to do just that and I have dramatically cut down – I’m on about 5 a day
Step two get fit – I started taking long walks – anything from 5 miles to 13 miles tromping across hill and dale
The net result after 3 weeks was I had horrible blisters and had put on half a stone – not a great start.
Time for plan b - last week I went to the Nike store and got them to watch me running and they have sold me a pair of running shoes that I shouldn’t get blisters from and I took a bit of a break on the exercising to look after my poor blistered feet until they looked a little more human and less like a horror film.
So time to start again – learning from the mistakes of the last month I started the weight watchers diet yesterday (because I now have 2 stone to lose!!), the fitness campaign in the new trainers starts today (well it started yesterday when I cycled to the train station rather than driving), and today is my last day of smoking – now I can’t promise I’ll always be 100% on my diet, or that when it’s chucking it down with rain I wont skip the odd exercise sessions, or that I wont have a few drinks and sneak in the odd cigarette but I can promise that I’m going to share the next 5 months with you all as I try pretty hard to get into shape to run 13 miles at the end of September.
I’m working from home today, so the plan is three healthy meals and a 10 mile walk - finishing up with putting any remaining cigarettes down the waste disposal!!
Wish me luck – I’ll update you all later
