Life Change

No, not "change of life", "Life Change". I'm 32, and decided I need to do something to make me happy. I'm overweight, out of shape and not a very healthy influence on my children. So on Monday I got up at 5:00am and started my Life Change. I took to the street in my neighborhood and walked/ran for 38 minutes 4 seconds. On Tuesday I got up at 5:00am again and did a workout on the Wii using EA Sports Active. Wednesday I walked/ran for 39 minutes 52 seconds. Thursday & Friday I did the Wii workout. Today - I completely kicked butt! I've been up since 4:00am (both kids have wicked colds). After I finally got them put back to bed (approx 2 hours later), I went out for my walk/run. I pushed myself to 5-minute run spurts and did an extra lap for a total workout time of 50 minutes 14 seconds!! Of course, now I'm ready to collapse and go back to bed! But, all in all, not a bad first week.

I've also been watching my caloric intake and trying to stick to 1500 calories on my walk/run days and 1200 on the rest of the days. I've decided that Sundays are my off days, at least from exercising. I don't want to burn myself out. I'm pretty excited. I think this is going to be great and I'm looking forward to the positive results from all my hard work.

And the absolute quiet in the morning is wonderful. Everyone is still asleep and it's nice "me" time. I plan to check back weekly with an update on my week's work. My ultimate goal is to lose 40 pounds and try for a 5k run next spring/summer. :)

See you next week!

In case you're interested, here's how I did my run/walks:

8/31/09:

Walk: 5:00, Run: 2:15, W: 5:00, R: 3:15, W: 5:00, R: 3:34, W: 14:00

9/2/09:

W: 5:00, R: 3:50, W: 5:00, R: 4:00, W: 5:00, R: 4:02, W: 12:00

9/5/09:

W: 5:00, R: 5:01, W: 4:26, R: 4:51, W: 4:26, R: 5:01, W: 4:26, R: 4:58, W: 12:05