Day 10

As of 30 minutes ago I have completed 10 days of Jillian Michael. I haven't stepped on a scale in awhile but I feel better and stronger even if its only in my mind. Doing the 30 day shred is hopefully going to set me on the right course back to healthy living. I've added a 20 minute Yoga video that I do with my girls sometimes. 

I have a lot of changes coming in the next few months and I want to enter the new phase of my journey in life healthy and confident in who I am. Exercise and eating right is hopefully going to help to send me in the right direction. Maybe when I've reached my goal I'll post pictures.

After a winters hiatus the warmer weather and the blue skies have drawn me once again outdoors. Today I had to go outside. I put together my plan for the next 30 days and it is simply biking 2 or 3 miles every day and doing 30 minutes of Jillian Michaels the 30 day shred. That seems easy enough right? I really feel good. I hate tracking my food it makes me feel inadequate when I go over my calories alloted for that day and I don't want to add to many things at once. So after the first 10 days if I still feel good I might add my fitness pal to my regime. As for right now I'm going to enjoy the feeling of fitness. Day 1 down!

Here's to me getting back one the fitness wagon, for good this time.

So Friday I went running and that's the end, I have not gone since. Tomorrow I'm going to try to make it the first thing that I do. Its just so very cold outside I would rather stay curled up in bed than go out into that freezing cold weather. I know that I need to get out again though, I want to be ready for the 5k and also just so that I can feel good about my exercise program again. I want to be healthy and stay that way permanently, its just so easy to fall back into my old ways. That's probably why I need to start making it the very first thing I do each day usually when I run I eat healthier, I feel better and I am way more productive. I don't know why I'm typing this all out it helps me somehow. Tomorrow I will blog about how awesome my run was and how I'm going to stick with this program that I have for myself.

Kendra

Do Over

I went to the doctor today I had a physical and blood work results to be told. Everything came back normal. Yeah! I'm healthy and I don't have diabetes. That's great to hear I want it to continue to be that way.

So this year I have had so much time to think and be inspired I have been following these blogs and reading about all these people who are doing adventurous things running marathons, climbing mountains, taking these gorgeous pictures of beautifully green trees. Don't get me wrong I've been doing things I've had a decent year and I get to go places more than the average person who does the whole 9 to 5 thing but I keep feeling restless.

Do you ever get this stirring desire to go and see and wander? Do you ever think what are people thinking staying in just one little corner never thinking of whats out there? I know one thing I can never be satisfied living in suburbia I need to see the world! I need to travel to the corners of the world not just to see but to do. I know the times I'm happiest is when I'm helping others and when I'm making a difference.

I have concluded that I want to be stable and able to afford what I want to do so I have decided for the next couple of years I want to invest time in getting my Bachelors and Masters degree. I found this ladies blog where she is doing exactly what I want to do she works as a traveling Occupational Therapist and she spends like 6-8 weeks in different parts of the country, I think even a couple of times she has traveled outside the country to work. Her photos her adventuring and going to different parts of the world I want to do that! So the long term goal right now is to get back into school and graduate so I can do what I really want to do. I'm 24 its time to graduate!

The reason I started this post was to say that I have decided to start running again. The last time I posted on this particular blog I was extremely nervous about doing my first Triathlon. I finished and I was so proud of myself but after completing my goal I stopped running, I stopped swimming and biking. I've told myself I will wait until after my surgery to start running again but the desire to start again hasn't waned in spite of my laziness the desire to run hasn't gone away, I've been walking and doing yoga in my room but the feeling isn't the same as running. So today I will start the training program again and I will start from scratch. I'm going to use  the Jeff Galloway method and do the run walk thing until I feel confident enough to run at a quicker pace. It will be fun to do a 5k with my sister again I think we can do one in March or April.

Speaking of my little sister one thing that I do enjoy about living only a couple of hours away is the fact that I get to come home once a month to see all of them, my niece Giniah is so cute now, she's a little spoiled but so much fun to do stuff with. I love them . :)

So the plan is to to do a 5k in March and April and there is a Century Bike ride in Gallatin on May 3.

Another thing that I want to focus on is eating healthier and losing weight. I am not happy where I am right now and I think a regular exercise schedule and tracking what I eat on My Fitness Pall will help me to stay on track.

I can't do or be as fast as I want to be if I have this extra weight hanging around. I hope to keep this thing a little more up to date so that I can look back on my progress. I don't think I'll ever be this free again so this is the time to focus on my fitness.

Also I'm moving to Florida! Its so hot I'm going to have to look good wearing summer clothes for a good part of the year.

A week from today I will be flying down to Clearwater Florida to participate in my very first Triathlon. I have no big hopes of winning the race or even placing first in my age group, really my one and only wish is that I will be able to finish. I have started to freak out, you know that feeling where your heart is in your throat... where you have to remind yourself to calm down. I've started to feel that way, one moment I'm confident that I will be able to finish the race the next I drop into despair thinking I'm not prepared enough. I am really thankful that I won't be alone the day of the race one of my good friends is driving in from Miami so I won't be alone at the end of the race.

All I can say is that I will do my best. I can't give up on myself.

Time to go for a run!

Week 1 schedule:

Sunday- swim 10-15 minutes
Monday- bike 50 minutes, run 30 minutes, light weight training
Tuesday- run (Gazelle's workout), light weight training
Wednesday- easy 30 minute run, swim 20 minutes
Thursday- run (Gazelle's workout), bike 40 minutes
Friday- this might be a rest day, as I'm sure I'll be exhausted from the week
Saturday- bike 15-20 miles, run 3 miles


Week 2 schedule:

Sunday- swim 20-25 minutes
Monday- bike 60 minutes, run 30 minutes, light weight training
Tuesday- run (Gazelle's workout), light weight training
Wednesday- bike 60 minutes, easy run 30 minutes, swim 20 minutes
Thursday- run (Gazelle's workout), light weight training
Friday- bike 40 minutes
Saturday- easy 3-4 mile run
Sunday- REST
Monday- TRIATHLON

Getting out of my funk

I've been in a funk... I will admit it. I have not been exercising as much as I should. I could come up with all types of excuses but I won't do that. I will just say that I have two weeks until my very first Triathlon and I want to be able to complete it as best as I can.

Someday I will go into all the details of me struggling with self-confidence with my job as a dean, working with new people, my body, my weight, my school work, I could go on but I guess the best thing for me to do is to stop wallowing in self-pity and do something with my life besides watching TV and eating Nutella (I'm not even joking over the last few months I have had a serious love affair with Nutella) Oh my God look how far I have fallen.

Anyway... Here's to starting over...again and again... and again.