Back in the Saddle Again!

Last year's plan of dieting to lose weight worked pretty well. I lost about 50 pounds, then the holidays hit. I gained back a little over 20 of those pound back. I let myself down a little with that, but I'm picking myself back up. That's really the wonderful thing about a diet. You can always start over.

2011's weight loss plan is a little different. This year I will continue to diet, and I will also be including exercise. I started the year with doing the Biggest Loser Wii game, but I hurt my foot and had to take a break to rest it. While resting my foot I came to the decision that I didn't like all of the yoga and stuff, so I need to find something else. A co-worker has been talking about an iPhone app that he's been using call C25K. C25K (Couch to 5K) is an app that has a 9 week training plan to get you fit enough to run a 5K (30-45 minutes of jogging).

For example the first week you have a 5 minute walk a walk, then oscillates between running for 60 seconds and walking for 90 seconds, then a 5 minute cool down. Week 2 will have less walking and more running. So on and so on. I've really enjoyed walking. It's peaceful and I get time to just think about thing, so the C25K app seamed perfect. I downloaded it over the weekend and started the plan this week.

Being 400+ pounds I in no way thought I could just go through this with ease. My first day was a little rough. I only made it through half of the training. I could have pushed myself to complete it but I still had to work a full 8 hours, and I didn't want to be a worthless blob all day. The great thing is I can repeat days as many times as necessary. So, I might be doing week one for a week or two before moving on to week two.

Day two (repeat of day 1) was a LOT better. I made all the way through with the exception of one running cycle. I decided to walk it because I was going up hill, it was near the end of the training, and I didn't want to fall on my face. Other then my quads feeling like they were hit with a truck, I'm feeling pretty good! I'm going to skip the next 2 days, and give it a go on Saturday.

One cool feature of the app is a journal about my run/walk. I'm able to save an image from my phone and post it here (See images to the left and right). You can see what I did, and what I thought about it.

See ya on Friday's weigh in!