chickygirl

Decide at the beginning if you’re going to do the running on a treadmill or not, or do both from the beginning. You work your legs in entirely different ways with both methods, and it was mighty discouraging to get halfway through week 6 on the treadmill, only to discover that I SUCK while running outside.

I started off with the same holes I’ve had in my lobes since I got them done at age 8. I was expecting to need to start at something like 18g, but on a whim I tried to start with the 14g taper I’d bought to help me with getting my septum jewelry in, and had very little trouble at all – the right lobe was fine, the left was a bit tight for a couple of days. I rummaged through my jewelry box, found a couple of stray 14g barbells from other piercings, and used those for around a month before finding some 12g tapers at a local store yesterday. The 12g tapers went in much easier than the 14g, most likely because of the weight of the 14g jewelry I’d used.

The plan now is to wait until payday and find myself some 10g tapers/jewelry. I’m hoping to get to either 4g or 2g, but no larger than that.

I decided at the time I decided to actually do the c25k that if I was going to make an effort to exercise, it wouldn’t be that much more difficult to actually eat good stuff as well. So instead of the 2-3 20oz bottles of Coke Zero I’d drink at work, I’m now drinking about 2ltrs of water a day. On the weekends I drink water or cranberry juice mostly, unless I’m taking a day off from the healthy stuff, like this afternoon when I had Taco Bell as a reward. I’ve found that moderation is the key for me.

My doctor has been on my case for not eating 3 meals a day for years (I’m not much of a food-in-the-morning person), so I eat “breakfast” at about 10pm every night – a bowl of Frosted Mini-Wheats – which curbs my urge to snack on something a couple of hours after dinner, and makes up for the lack of fiber I get with the rest of my meals. And aside from my afternoon snack, it’s really the only sweet thing I eat lately.

The biggest change was lunch at work, where instead of eating one of the sodium-filled prepackaged sandwiches I had been eating, I eat yogurt, and instead of eating a bag of Chex mix or cheese crackers, I’m totally hooked on those Fiber Plus Antioxident snack bars, which are far too chewy and chocolatey for my body to believe that I’m eating something that’s actually kinda good for me.

Even though I needed to lose about 50lbs to be considered a “healthy” weight, I set my goal to 30, with the plan to go on to 40, and then 50lbs. I need to lose about another 30lbs at this point to reach my ultimate goal of “healthy.”