On April 16th, it will be my eighth month of losing weight and reconstructing my body with exercise. It's been a hard process but a much rewarding one. I have officially lost 45lbs and I can actually start to see some muscle forming :-) Losing the first 40lbs. was fairly easy but the last 3 months, I have been losing weight at a much slower pace. At first, I was so disappointed and getting upset with myself for not losing the weight at a quicker rate. I have realized now that I am just happy keeping the weight off that I had allowed myself to put on and losing a .5 lb a week is better than nothing at all.
At the gym, I am always trying to push myself. I have been running now for 6 months at a pace of 5-5.5 mph which is a comfortable pace for me to run for distance. However, I watched a snippet of the Biggest Loser and one of the trainers made one of the women run at 10mph for 30 seconds. I thought I can try that! I got on the treadmill and began running at 5.5mph and decided to give it a try. I wish there was a video camera that recorded that moment so I could show everyone how hilarious that was. If that treadmill had not had hand bars at the top, I would flew off that thing! So, I attempted 8mph and realized that was a good speed to push myself and not fly off the treadmill. But, my running has had to be slowed down, because of shin splints. So, I have had to do intervals of 10 minutes of running and 5 minutes of walking. My shins still hurt but I am NOT giving up running! Yesterday while out the gym, I pushed myself to run 8.2mph for 45 seconds. I was breathing very heavy and I must have freaked out one of the trainers because he came by and said "are you ok?" I replied, "yes but running that fast does take a lot of energy!" and it does.
I am happy to say that I enjoy a much healthier lifestyle!
No comments:
Post a Comment