Again

I think I have started three different postings today. For some reason I feel highly motivated when I start them and then get distracted- and lose interest.

One of my goals this year is to link to Ashley over at the Domestic Wannabe and her Move It Monday. I always read her postings and she was actually the one to get me started with the C25K last spring. She has continued to do awesome. I am so inspired by her progress. Not only is she a running machine but she has lost the weight she wanted to lose.

I figure I have roughly 70 lbs I want to lose. I could lose more but that would put me at a happy weight. It is about time I am honest with myself and with me. When I ran the Marathon Relay in Dec...I weighed roughly 221. I am not positive about my weight because I did not weigh myself while I was in the states. But I know I gained some while there (thank you Cracker Barrel and Carls Jr). While I may have finished the run and am really satisfied with my weight loss and increase in exercise... I am still nowhere close to where I need to be. But this is the most progress I have made in the last 7 years! That is a point to celebrate!!

Getting back from the states- was a wake up call. The only exercise I did in the states- was the marathon relay. So, that coupled with the diet of stateside traveling and holiday foods, led to a 7 lb gain! Ugh. My mother in law put it in perspective though- I still started this new year lower than the last 7 new years:)

So- what now? I have been adding exercise back into my days. Monday started good with a morning friend date at the gym and 2 miles on the treadmill. Then half an hour on the elliptical that night. Today I did twenty minutes on the elliptical. Tomorrow is another gym date. I am also going to do some weight work after the treadmill. Thursday I am going to meet up with my friend and neighbor Jami and have her work me out in her home gym with weights. I am definitely adding weights this year. I want killer arms again- like when I played softball.

Here are two things I need to remember...

I have a question for you that run though. I love running outside. It is how I started in April of last year. It is what renewed my love for exercise and showed me how to lose this weight. I would leave the house at 5:30am and be back before the kiddos got up to get ready for school. Well- now it is still dark until like 7:45- 8:00am. Plus- add in the fact that the high in the last month and a half the high has been like high 30's. I am a wimp!! I cannot run in the dark cause I get scared- I know, silly. I do not like running in the cold either. I have an elliptical at home. But this is my question- am I the only runner who does not feel satisfied after working out on the elliptical? I do not get the same "runners high" from it as from the treadmill or being outside. Is that weird??