Up through my senior year of college, I was really good about watching my weight and exercising, but when I started on a new med that caused me to gain 20 lbs, I got frustrated and really just let myself go. I'm now at least 20-25 lbs overweight and I hate how out of shape I feel. Every year since college, I have claimed that I was going to work on losing the weight, but have never been able to discipline myself enough to actually do so. This is the year that I want to change that trend.
I have a couple of goals that I am looking to accomplish this year. First, I want to get back down to around 125 lbs. I'm only 5'1" and feel that 125 lbs would be a good and healthy weight for me. I started this year at 149.4 lbs and have been bouncing between that weight and 148.6 lbs during this first week of attempted weight loss. I think that if I could lose a minimum of 2-3 lbs per week, I would feel good about my weight loss.
I also want to be able to run a half-marathon by the end of this year (my 53 year old mother runs marathons and she didn't even start running until she was 45 years old). I'm currently working out on my treadmill every day. I'm doing a combination of walking and jogging for 40 minutes and my short term goal is to be able to jog/run the full 40 minutes. I'm hoping to be able to do this by February 1.
I really think that we all can do this! Good luck to all!
-JW
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ReplyDeleteI have a 16 week training schedule for half-marathons if you are interested (although I'm sure you have one from your mom). My friend in undergrad who does half/full marathons got this from her trainer and then gave it to me when I tried to train for a half-marathon. Let me know if you want it!
-KR