What if I tried something different?

Sorry -- quite a week... this has gotten away from me!

First things first:

This week's weigh in: -0.4 lbs.
Total weigh loss: -19.5 lbs.

So, directionally good. But still feeling a little stalled. So, I decided I needed a change.

I've been saying all along that I know I was going to have to change something significantly if I was going to be able to take control of these last months and pounds. It's time to try a different path. Try some new things. Take a risk.

I've mentioned how much I hate general cardio exercise on here before. I know that it's the right thing to do to get this in control. It has to be addressed. So, what does a girl do when (a) she has no ability (b) she isn't self motivated enough to keep doing it on her own, or else she'd be doing it already and (c) isn't really able to invest too much time out of her week to make huge changes?

Baby steps. 30 minutes at a time. 3 times a week. Walking. Running. Intervals. Someone else is in charge...

For $2.99, I downloaded a "C25K" app for my iPhone. This stands for "Couch-to-5k", a 9 week program to get someone from a couch potato to running a 5k.

I have no intention right now to run a 5k. That's not a goal. The goal is to shake up my cardio and get out of this plateau.

So, the way this works is there are 3 days each week that I would do this program. I would go to the treadmill (or outside in the real world) and play the app, and it would direct me as to when to run, when to walk, etc. The first week, it's simple -- 5 minutes of walking, then 20 minutes of alternating 60 seconds of run and 90 seconds of walking and then a 5 minute cool down. Week 2 gets more challenging, and so on, and so on...

I'm going to give this a shot. I'm committing to trying it for 3 weeks. This will significantly increase my gym time, and should give me a sense of whether or not I am really up for being a person who can do this kind of stuff. I'll report out on it as I go, but I will go at least 9 times.

Well, 8 more, since I started yesterday. It was fine. I survived. Not very fast, but I did it. I wanted to give up, because I hate it, but I didn't. I'll try it again tomorrow.

Thanks for reading!