Running Around

Last week I wasn't able to hit the second week of running.  I started the first day, but because of my running the week before I had a sore ankle and it just didn't happen.  I am, this week, however, starting week two.  Normally I should start on Monday, but this week we closed on our new home so I wasn't able to take my normal exercise/lunch time.  Yesterday I started my week two regimen which is run two minutes and then walk one minute and I repeat that 10 times.  I will probably have to have two weeks of this schedule.  My 8 week walk/run program is slowly turning into a 10 week program, which I don't mind.  I really want to pull through this whole program.  So it might just turn into a 16 week program, which is fine.  My body seems to need an extra week of a new week.  Being a bit more overweight than the average beginning runner, I can't take it too fast or else I will sustain some sort of injury.

This week's weigh-in was great.  I worked really hard last week.  The weekend was a little bumpy, but I had done enough work the week before to help me take home a 2.4lb loss.  This week I am trying to keep up with that weight loss.  I have tinkered with my numbers for this week, dropping down my everyday points a couple of notches.  Along with my workouts, I hope that I will be able to take home another 2.4lbs, or even some loss.  This weekend may be a bit hard to stick to my diet because we are now moving into our new home on Saturday, but I am going to try very hard.  We'll see what happens on Monday.

Delayed Post

I realize it's been a couple of weeks since my last post.  Not that I have been so busy that I haven't posted, but just haven't taken the time to do it.  I have still been doing Weight Watchers, and feel like I am doing pretty good.  It has helped me to see the difference in my choices now.  Friday treats at work used to be, grab a candy of some sort and then head back to work.  I have realized in the past couple of months that I don't go to the table that has the candy unless it has baked lays potato chips; I just hit the fruit table and head back to my desk.  I just don't want to afford the points that the calories would cost me.  I still struggle on the weekends a bit, but I am trying to make better decisions with the food I choose.  My wife might not think I am making any changes, but I am and I feel like I am doing so. 
I know that I have said this before, but I am starting a walk/run program.  I know I know, I started this a time before, and then P90X, and whatever else is out there, but then I find a way to not stick with it.  I am the king of quitting what I start.  If anyone out there needs to know how to not stick with something, or want to know how to start something and then not stick with it, I'm your guy!  I can give you advice all day long about it.  But in all seriousness, I did start it again this week.  I made it through week 1.  I found the program off www.RunnersWorld.com, I love that site.  Though I am not an avid runner YET!  I want to be and this program, which is an eight week program will help me train my body to run 30 minutes straight.  I was supposed to run Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, but I got in Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.  I think that is ok.  I am going to move onto week 2.  Saturday was a bit rough.  I ran outside for the first time in a while.  We are staying with my in-laws and they live in a rather hilly area.  At one point I had to run down a steep hill, NOT a good idea.  By late evening my ankle and hips hurt so bad, I thought that I had seriously fractured my ankle.  Needless to say, today it was doing better, and I think by my run tomorrow, it will be doing a lot better.  I think I should probably run outside more, but maybe when I have lost a bit more weight.  Well I am off.  I hope to post on the days that I run so I will hopefully be reporting back by tomorrow.