Week 4 of C25K

Weighed in at 248.8 this morning.  Only .2 pounds down from Wednesday.  But I'm trying to look at it as only .8 away from my 20 pound goal!  I took ate a bit more than I should have Wednesday night and took yesterday off from exercising, so I guess it's not bad.

Today was my first day of week 4 of the C25K challenge.  I had to run a total of 16 minutes and walk 16 minutes.  The running was done in 2 5-minute and 2 3-minute stretches.  The 3 minute ones weren't bad anymore but the 5 minute ones were tough!  I keep thinking, here I am almost half way through the training, and running 5 minutes at a time is hard.  Am I really going to be running 35-40 minutes straight in another 5 weeks?!  Because that seems unrealistic!  But I'm sticking with this!  I'll stick it out and maybe I'll be surprised.  I'm growing more and more nervous about the 5K though, wondering if I can really do it, thinking I'll have to walk it....

Jen and I are going to do 1 mile on her road tomorrow.  We're doing a combo run/walk, but I really want to prove to myself that I can do this.  It's going to be like 15 minutes of running/walking....but I've only ever run in place.  Plus there will be hills, which I am worried about.  And I don't have good shoes.  We're going to Walmart tonight, and I'll see if I can get good shoes and something to use as workout clothes.

What I've been trying to do to stay in the moment and motivated while running is to look at myself in the mirror and watch myself run, and think about how I'm going to look thinner.  And how it's going to get easier as I lose more weight.  The more I do it, the easier it will become.  I need to focus in my next decade of numbers.  I'm 9 pounds away, and I'm going to bust my butt to get there by end of March!  I know 10 pounds each month isn't going to continue to be reasonable, but I'm going to ride that train for as long as I can.  I want to be 20 pounds down tomorrow, with 9 to go for March.