My little Bit of Honey

The past few days have been rough, I've been dealing with a combination of a cold, allergies and my asthma being irritated by the above.  I really haven't been giving it my all on any front, including eating/exercising. I did get a jog/walk in on Monday, 3 miles! It was hard because I also decided to take my son and push him in the jogging stroller, 26lbs plus the weight of the stroller is not an easy go. This morning though, I had a really hard time. I felt that familiar tightness in my chest and my wheezing indicating that my asthma was really kicking up, I couldn't find my inhaler at first this morning so I just had to hope and pray that I didn't go into a full on asthma attack while driving. I didn't, thankfully! Once I got to work I ended up finding the inhaler and took it, I started to feel a little better but knew better than to push it. I know my limits and know that when I'm feeling that way, I really shouldn't push myself. I still decided to take a...

So I really didn't think there was a difference in what I looked like with the weight loss. I knew that my clothes have been fitting better (I've gone from a size 16 to a size 12 which is a bit loose on me right now..) but I honestly just thought it was me and that I didn't actually *look* any different. Then I decided to look back at pictures and I can definitely see a difference. My progress has been slow, but since this time last year, I have gone from 190lbs to 167.4lbs with many stops and starts but with a real "push" starting in January and really getting going in April.  I did a side by side comparison on a collage and I think I can definitely see a bit of a difference, which keeps me motivated to keep going.  The picture on the left was taken on March 1st and the picture on the right was taken yesterday.  

Today I decided to take a look back at my Instagram. For every run I do, I take a pic after so I can document how far I've come when I finish C25K. Let me tell you, these pictures are not pretty, they are sweaty, no make up, hair all over the place pictures, but they do tell a story. I started giving C25k an honest push about 6 weeks ago. The reason I started giving it the complete honest push was because of a simple text message. I sent my husband a text after doing a particularly hard session of C25K. I think it was the start of week 3 (which was a big jump and so far my hardest week), I said "I can't do this, I don't know why it's so hard now" or something along those lines. The response was the push I needed he basically said "because you haven't been consistent. When you were running every day it got easier". I didn't quite realize it at the time but he was right. I was mostly annoyed because he was being honest when I wanted him to tell...

I finished week 6 up today, 22 minute jog with no intervals. That was a tough one, mainly because of that last hill. I thought I wanted to badly to stop and just lay on the pavement for a few minutes. I didn't though, I thought to myself "how crazy would it be that I have gone the entire 19 minutes and then just quit in the last 3 minutes? Really? No. You keep going and get your ass up that hill woman!" And I did. Then I turned around when I got to the other side and went back up (the other side isn't as steep) and went back down. The last minute was easier because of the downhill but man was that rough. Not to mention it was incredibly humid out this morning and my allergies were killing me. My left eye is swollen and looks like I just got out of a boxing match. Then at the end, I stopped and checked my pace and from what RunKeeper said it was my fastest pace yet. Wow. I'm pretty proud of that. I 've made a lot of progress in the past few weeks and I'm r...

This morning was the start of my "longer" runs, up until today I had done a max of 8 minutes of running but today was a 20 minute run, no intervals. I won't lie when I say that I was a bit nervous. I knew I had done this before because the c25k app I use has all of my old records stored as well, so I knew that I  could do it, it was just a matter of getting myself pumped up for it. Recap if you're interested: So, I got to work about 5am and got myself together by 5:20ish, I wanted to take some extra time to give the sun more time to come up! I started the app / music and runkeeper. Off I went (or so I thought), I got about 1:30 in and the music just..stopped. So I had to stop and figure that out, restart of my phone.. blah blah.. then started over again.  I walked for the warm up, which was the first 5 minutes. I was feeling very.. good. It was a weird feeling, I wasn't tired or anxious about any of it..just really at peace. After the 5 minutes were up it was t...

So the past week or so I didn't run much which is OK, we all have our off weeks. I got back to business today and had a great run, well it was more like a soft jog, but I still was moving! I really had to watch my pace because it was two 8 minute runs with one 5 minute walk  interval in between. The hard part was actually the walking, I felt like I could keep going with the run and the walk really slowed me down. So that means that tomorrow is the 20 minute run, the first work out without any intervals. I'm a bit nervous but I am hoping that how I felt today is a good sign. The good news is that I am able to run outside since the sun is coming up a bit earlier, so yay to that!  The other thing I wanted to write about was my nutrition. I know I've written a lot about my thyroid issues and what not but lately I've just been so tired of being tired. I'm beyond exhausted every day and I'm sick of it. This weekend I started to do some research on thyroid disease, d...