So I'm a week into the April bootcamp in which I plan to lose massive amounts of weight and inches, and the results are less than spectacular. I'm down a whole pound to 176, and the measurements are just wonky: 41, 37, 46. Basically everythings half an inch bigger than a week ago. PFFFT! I can't expect real results if I don't put in real effort. I feel like I'm back on track now - three days properly following Weight Watchers, and I'm 3 for 3 in excercise (twice to gym and a big walk yesterday). Admittedly it was a rough week last week: we weren't sleeping much on account of the rats, and suddenly there was chocolate and hollandaise sauce everywhere due to it being Easter and all. And the weather SUCKED! But all that is past me now and I'm moving on.
What I cannot figure out is why it's so damned hard to RUN! I feel like I've been working away at it for MONTHS and I seem to make no progress - I still cannot get much past the two minute mark without bonking - heartrate in the 170s, gasping for air, legs failing me. I look around me at other people on the treadmills: old, young, svelte, chubby, whatever, and they seem to just glide along at a 5 or 6 mph, whereas it's an epic struggle for me. I had the asthma test a few weeks ago, in hopes that we'd discover that a few puffs of the inhaler was all that's been standing between me and my running career all this time. But no, just some very, very vague hint that there might be some very, very mild something (or nothing at all). The doc seemed to think we could leave it at that.
And so it goes, going nowhere two minutes at a time. On the plus side (cause there just always has to be one), I know that the exercise is helping me lose weight and improving my health and fitness level, even I'm not seeming to much better at running.
