I am really concentrating on the exercise part of me losing weight, because I have never been an over eater really, in fact I skipped meals and that was much worse.

So Monday I warmed up with some stretches and got on the Cross-trainer for 10 mins, at a speed of 22kms per hour. I ten jumped on the treadmill for 10 mins walking at 4kms per hour and then finished back on the cross-trainer for another 10 mins - all up 7.2kms. 

Tuesday I began the C25K programme, which I downloaded at the suggestion of my friend Fi, and I'm so glad I did. It's a free app on my phone to help me learn to run. At the end of the 10 week programme you should be able to run 5km. Now I haven't run in a very long time - and even then it was not pretty... but I am managing to haul this plus size body into something that very closely resembles a run and I am so proud of that! The programme has me run for 60 secs and then walk for 90 secs, with a warm up and a cool down. As the programme goes on I will obviously develop more running than walking skills and will run and walk for longer. It's quite exciting, and it's achievable - just what I need!

Wednesday saw me back to the cross-trainer. Now the C25K programme says to have a rest day in between, so it was just a mild workout, combined with some vigorous rubber brushing of the carpet to get the cat fur off (that is definitely counted). I want to do something each day just to keep the momentum up, but I will go carefully.

Today (Thursday) I did the C25K programme again, same as Tuesday, warm up for 5 mins, I walked at 2.5kms per hour, increased to 3, then 3.5 during the 5 mins. Then I ran for 60 secs at 4.4kms per hour, then walked for 90 secs at the same speed. My cool down after I had completed 20 mins of those repetitions was 5 mins, decreasing the speed as I went.

Food -wise I have been ensuring I have a protein at each meal - so for example, in the morning I might have peanut butter on a ryvita cracker, lunch a tin of tuna with salad, and dinner a grilled chicken with salad and couscous..

I fill a 2 litre container of water and make sure I drink it each day too. 

Hopefully this kind of info may help others... or perhaps you can help me... but as this journey continues I anticipate things will get tough, there will be times I let myself down, there'll be successes... hey it's a journey :)

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