Last week I had a pretty bad week, I went to my workout class on Monday, but after that I was super busy, and feeling down and did not go the rest of the week or do anything except class and work/study. I also ate a lot of junk food. This week I'm back on track, went to class yesterday and today and got my butt kicked. I really do need to start running again though since I will be running a 5K when I'm in Madison on the 14th and I want to be able to kick Pete's butt, and keep up with the friends I'm running with. It snowed again this weekend, which means I won't be out on the streets like I want to be, but hopefully I can force myself to go on the treadmill just to keep going. I also need to do better at eating healthy, and really cooking my veggies from my farm share. I've been avoiding them.
I think a lot of it (when you have the tools, means and everything) is just to DO it. It's so easy for us to come up with excuses, and not workout or eat healthy for whatever reason, but it's so important that we just DO it. I know I feel SO much better when I'm working out and eating well, and I get super depressed when I eat junk food and sit around, so I just need to kick my own butt and make myself make forward progress.
Lisa, it's amazing how quickly you can improve cholesterol. Before I started working out I had really low HDL (38?) and like 200 cholesterol. After only 6 months of working out I had raised my HDL to 58 and lowered my cholesterol to like 170. As for your goal of weight loss, for me I have a hard time meeting goals like that. So I just make my goal better fitness and general health, although it is not as "achievable" I know that I am more driven to get healthy, than I am to stress about every pound on the scale. Maybe setting some small fitness and diet goals?
I miss TurboKick, maybe I should find a kickboxing class to help replace it, and I would love to start doing Yoga/Pilates again, but my schedule is just too nuts and full of studying...
I'm hoping to start getting out and hiking on the weekends, since we never ended up getting out this winter like we planned.
Hope you guys are doing well!
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Sheena, you sound like me...other than the fact I don't run! Maybe I should start?
My "good" cholesterol is higher than yours, but I can't remember my "bad" off the top of my head. Thinking I blocked it out? :) I know it's higher than yours, but not for sure. Thanks for the encouragement.
It does make sense to be healthy instead of the numbers on the scale. When I was gaining weight, I was telling myself this. While it could have worked for the first 10 lbs, the subsequent 20, it didn't. ;)
Good luck on your running, studying, working out and eating healthy!
Lisa, the Couch to 5K plan is a great way to get in shape and start running! You work up gradually with intervals of walking and running, that's how I built up to running the 5K, and I have lots of friends who never ran at all and now can run for 30 min after finishing the plan!
Sheena, I actually had a dream I was running last night! In my head I was confused that I confused I could keep up with everyone.
I wish I lived in a less busy road, or lived in town where running is free! Wait, I do run...I run on the Wii Fit. That's a start, isn't it? ;)
I'll be interested to hear how the 5K goes, good luck!
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