5K Frenzy

Hello all you people out there.

So i know my blog hasn't been very interesting to read lately or in depth or shown any awesome feats yet...well I'm still working at it. all that stuff last weekend kinda make me put everything on hold. Which is fine. I'm glad I went to birmingham. Anyways.

Here's something completely off the subject of losing weight, yet will make all the difference. I went to the dentist for the first time since 2009. before my wedding. They cleaned my teeth and they look fantastic!!! The reason that has anything to do with what i'm doing is because i feel i have a beautiful smile again. I want a "beautiful body" to go with that BEAUTIFUL smile (though it still needs braces--but i can do invisalign somewhere down the road...lol) I know you guys are gonna say "you're beautiful now!" but to me, I am and I'm not. Some days I feel gorgeous...some days i feel as ugly as a pig...I want to be down where I'm comfortable ALL THE TIME...not vain in any sense, just comfortable and healthy. Thats all I ask.

So here's where the title comes in. I have friends on facebook that run 5k's all the time! It makes me sad. I want to be able to run one...but right now, I can't even run a mile!!!!!!! I jog, walk, jog, walk, jog, walk....and the jogging? I'm lucky if its even for a minute or longer... then my knees or ankles start to hurt, and my side starts to cramp...and well there ya go--i'm done. lol. However, thats only outside. I get the stitch and stuff still when i run on a treadmill, but i don't get out of breath as easily...and i can easily do 2 miles on the elliptical (though i know that doesn't matter). lol. do you guys have any ideas why I get out of breath easier outside than inside? it is rather irritating. I want to work towards being able to do a 5k. Daniel and I have this little path that he has created when he does his 5mi run/walk every evening that he says should be about the length of a 5k. (he mapped it out on mapquest...) We think that every Saturday or Sunday (whatever day we can that week) we will go and start me out walking most and jogging some...and slowly build up speed. that alone should aide the weight loss as well as reaching my goal of being able to do a 5k, no?

I want to run in the Liz Hurley Ribbon Run next year. before I move away. before I leave Huntsville, I want to run a 5k along friends (and my husband if possible). If daniel is still here when there is a 5k that we are ready for, we will run it together. But if he is gone before I get ready to run one? I will run with my friends. However, I would really like to run one with my husband when i reach that goal. It would feel awesome accomplishing that with him by my side, just as he accomplished his weight loss with me cheering him on and he will be doing the same for me as i reach my goals one at a time. For now...I know I've said this before... but i will reiterate them.

I want to lose 20lbs by my birthday. Should be a piece of cake if i don't have any more random trips away from home and stuff. I was doing really good there for those two weeks. and I'm still doing pretty well. We came back Monday...ate pretty terribly but only gained 1lb back. that made me feel better. This morning I was at 253.2 a new low....only .2lbs less than where i was before I left, but still it went down. Hoping to see 252 tomorrow...You know what that would mean? I can be under 250 next week. Do you know how excited I am? I haven't seen under 250 since high school. This will thrill me to no end. It makes me want to work harder. Now, when i eat terrible (like i did this past weekend), not only does it upset my stomach, but it also makes me feel bad for eating so many calories. Like i enter them into sparkpeople and am like "dang. i should have known better." but it makes it easier when those temptations arise because i can say "remember how you felt when you put that into spark people the last time? yeah. don't do it." lol.

I wish daniel had put the pics back on my netbook (he wiped it early because it was giving me issues)...i wanted to post the motivational pic i have as my cover photo on facebook. it states "Know whats better than eating that thing you've wanted for days? Losing that weight you have wanted to lose for years." I could not have found a better motivational image than that. God threw that one at me. It made me so ecstatic that i spent almost an hour trying to resize it perfectly for my cover photo (and that was a real B****...lol)

but anyways. I really would appreciate the feedback. It would help!! :) especially with the 5k stuff (all you 5k-ers out there!)

you guys are awesome!