Weight Loss journey

Well I'm now just over 3 months into my weigh loss journey and really enjoying the results I'm seeing.
3 very short months ago I was exhausted all the time and I wasn't even doing anything. I now know it was because I was shoving my face with food that was taking away my quality of life. Fatty, carb and sugar filled foods that I thought tasted so good. Now they seem disgusting and when I eat them I feel the same. I've lost 22 lbs so far even after falling off the wagon a few times. I know I will slip up but I need to take hold of the reigns and get back on because I have a HUGE goal I want to hit and I WILL get there even if it takes forever.

On to fitness news...

3 months ago walking wore me out, I'd be sweaty, out of breath and tired. Well not regular every day walking but speed walking, walking on the treadmill at the gym at 3.2 miles per hour. Now I have more pep in my step and I've started training to run a 5k in July. I'm so excited to run in it. For a couple of months I've been wanting a fitness goal and when I saw a Groupon for the race registration I knew what I was going to do. I bought the Groupon and have started training. I am using the Couch to 5k program and so far it's amazing! I feel confident that I can do this. I'm only on day two of this program but I feel that it will help build up my endurance to run a full 5k and build my confidence that I can run. I've always felt awkward running but now I don't. Maybe it's because I'm doing this for me and nobody else, maybe because I could give a crap what anybody else thinks of me while I work on myself.  Tonight at the gym I was totally in my zone and totally okay with that. I've decided that one of the best feelings in the world is being in your own world, with your music and your self while you run. 3 months ago I would have NEVER guessed I'd enjoy running. I probably would have laughed if you told me that. I played soccer for 7 years and HATED when we'd have to run laps, I hated running in Gym at school but now I enjoy it. It's making me realize that to really enjoy doing something like this, I have to be doing it because I want to. I want to be fit and be at a healthy weight and I know that being active will help me get there and stay there.


I think that's it for now. A updated picture will be coming, I just don't have a whole lot of time to stop and get one. Hopefully by the end of the week I'll have one.