Body Pump = Rough!

Day: 11 Run Workout 1

That's right! Workout! Today I wen with my sister to the Body Pump class at 24hour fitness! The Auburn 24hour Fitness is offer their classes for free to their guests, no membership needed!

This class kicked my butt! It was my first time and I could barely keep up, granted I'm not in the best shape, but still! By the end I could not do the lunges because my legs and knees were buckling!

• Motivation: My sister!

• Thankful for: Water!

I have also downloaded the my fitness pal app and am tracking what I eat! Hopefully I can get fit and healthy! Hooray!

Sweaty, Exhausted and a little Diasappointed

Day 8: Run 6

I will now be running every Monday, Wednesday and Friday because you are supposed to run 3 times a week and workout the other days I guess. At least that's what my husband said and he's smart when it comes to this stuff.

I felt a little less motivated today, but again I ran for more time than I did during my last run! It was overcast and what I call misty but it might actually be drizzle. Either way it's not really raining therefore I had no raindrops on leaves with which to splash water in my face :(

I walk to warm up until I get to this one corner then I turn and start running. The first day I wanted to run to the next corner all the way down the street, but I didn't make it.

• Motivation: I didn't have much today, but enough to go. I want to get smaller!

• Achievement: I made it to that corner today! Which I think took all of my get up and go so the rest of my run was much more tiring.

• Thankful for: My shoes! I love shoes, but I especially love my white and neon blue Nikes. I don't know why I'm thankful for my shoes, but when I got home I thought, "Wow, I'm really glad I have these shoes."

This is the picture I took when I first bought them. They are much dirtier now.

Today was so tiring that when I got to my front door, where I normally stretch after running, I had to sit down. Probably not the best thing for my heart, but I needed it. The walkway to my door is concrete and kind of like a ramp. It squares off and is about a foot tall. It was the perfect place to sit. I sat there for a while.

In an earlier post I mentioned that I don't care about losing weight, I just want to be smaller. So while tracking my weight I will be tracking my measurements too! I took my measurements and here they are:

Belly: 47"

Hip: 50"

Thigh: 31"

Calf: 18.5"

Upper Arm: 15"

All measurements are taken from the widest part of the area being measured. I keep forgetting to take a picture so that I can have one of those cool before and after picture things.

I am really disappointed with what my scale has been telling me. It says that I have gained weight. What's with that? I have been running and trying hard to eat right. I should at least be maintaining my already heavy weight and not adding more, shouldn't I?

Early Bird Gets... To Use Spotify

Day 6: Run 5

Holy cow! I didn't realize that I have gone running 5 times. To someone who doesn't regularly workout that's a lot!

I went running early again this morning (7:15am) in order to get one last use of Spotify Mobile. I only got a 48 hour trial, so I have gone running 3 times in the last 48! AWESOME! But now I don't have any music, well, new music. I will have to use my iPod. One more thing to carry.

Still haven't lost any weight, but I know , I know "dees tings take time!"

• Motivation: I had to use Spotify Mobile one last time!

• Frustration: The road I have to cross (R st) is much busier in the morning and there's no cross walk where I cross. Perhaps when I get ready to add more distance to my run I will run down to the cross walk which is a light and stops traffic. That will also mean running my path in reverse and potentially pissing off a lot of morning drivers... oh well!

• Achievement: I ran a little more often than yesterday and walked a little less. Same distance, just more running of it!

• Thankful for: I am thankful that I did not get a bad side stitch(ache)!

I am not thankful for the gross old man smoking in the park! GROSS!

Starting to get better!

Day 5: Run 4
I didn't think I was going to get to run today, but I did! My husband leaves around 5am and I couldn't get back to sleep after he left. So I laid there for a while and eventually decided to get up and eat something. Then I decided that I had plenty of time to go on a run. So I did!

• Motivation: I had extra time and I had a trial of a music app that is going to expire tomorrow and I felt like I needed to get my use of it while I could.

• Pathway: Today was EASIER! It might be because it was morning time, but I'm not sure. I was running so early that the park gate wasn't opened but I noticed it wasn't locked and slipped in!

• Thankful for: Looking up how to treat side aches/ side stitches. I had a really bad one during my last run. I still got one today, but I knew what to do! Also I am thankful that nobody said anything about sneaking through the gate. (I think the park was open, just the gate wasn't)

Information about side aches/side stitches:

What is a side ache?-
Side ache and side stitch are the same thing. No one truly knows what causes them. It is believed to be when the ligaments that attach the diaphragm to the internal organs gets strained. The jarring movement of running and breathing in and out stretches these ligaments. The much more technical and scientific term, "exercise-related transient abdominal pain" (ETAP).

Prevention-

• Breathe quick and shallow breaths.
• This really helped me today
• While breathing you should try to exhale on your left foot or inhale on your right.
• I tried this and it was hard to try and match my breathing with my running. 

Treatment-

• Once it starts, stop running. Take deep, slow breaths. This is to try to relax your muscles.
• This helped me, I didn't stop moving though I kept walking.
• Try pushing in on the stitch.
• I pressed up under my rib cage and it seemed to help cure it quicker so I could keep going.

Here are the links to where I got all this information from:
The Side Stitch
and
Runner's World: Beginners Only

Why harder?

Day 4: Run 3

I did not go running yesterday simply because it was Sunday. Also all weekend I have been super sore! I try to tell my self one of two things:
1. It's a good hurt!
or
2. It's my fat crying!
Regardless of what I tell myself it still hurts and it makes me walk like Shaggy from Scooby Doo!

• Motivation: I want stars on my chart! I want to be healthy! I want my husband, family and friends to be proud of me!

• Carrying: My phone, the knife, a penny I found halfway through and I forgot to mention my keys. I have to carry my keys, but they go around my neck because their on a lanyard. It was a little cooler but I had to drop the jacket, so I wore my "I <3 Top" Top Foods shirt. I simply had to carry the knife in my hands and tuck my phone in my bra. It worked! I'm thinking about taking a camel back with me to have water.

• Frustration: Today felt harder than the first run and even a little harder than the second. I thought this was supposed to get easier? Plus I got a bad side ache today!

• Thankful for: Last night my best friend Stephanie introduced me to Spotify and today I got to run to the music I wanted to!! Unfortunately it is only a temporary fix because the app only has a 48 hour trial. So I can use it for my run tomorrow and that's it. I'm also thankful for the cool breeze I got every once in a while!

I still need to take pictures for the before and after comparison.

Tough!

Day 2: Run 2
Today was a much harder run because I woke up sore from yesterday's run. It was also much warmer today and there were no rain drops on the leaves to splash my face with :(

• Motivation: I made a behavior change chart! I get a star for every fun! Once I have filled up my chart (30 runs) I can trade it in for one item off of "THE LIST" I added pictures of both below! I used PowerPoint to create it!

• Frustration: I created a play list on my phone and it didn't work! I was angry! I had to use Pandora and I hate Pandora!

• Carrying: My phone, the knife and my heavy body! I need to find a way to eliminate the jacket I am wearing. It carries my phone and the knife for me, but it's too hot to wear it. I need to be able to carry my phone, my knife and maybe some water.. any suggestions?

• Thankful for: I didn't know that this woman from my ward (Mormon Church Congregation) lives on one of the corners I turn at. She was having a garage sale and said hi to me. She was still out there on the way back and I was able to  stop and talk to her a little bit and she was very encouraging!

Introduction

How rude of me to not introduce my self. I am Kelsie. I am 25 almost 26, a senior at Central Washington University. I have been married to my husband Mike for a little over a year now and am loving married life! I am a Mormon and here is the link to my Mormon.org profile! http://mormon.org/me/5YN3

I am an education major and want to teach kindergarten! I will graduate next June and can't wait to be a teacher! I work as a para-educator in an adaptive behavior program at a high school. I work full time and go to school full time. My husband is also a student and has been working full time and going to school full time as well. Needless to say our life together is a hectic one.

I have always been a little larger, but I am way larger than I ever intended on being. Now at 215lbs. something has got to change. My schedule makes it hard to eat healthy and workout, but I am tired of being fat and large. It's not even the weight, I just want to be smaller! I want to be a hot wife and someday mother. I want my husbands friends and coworkers to meet me for the first time and think DAAAANG! She's HOT! or if they already know me I want them to think Wow, Kelsie is looking really good! I want to look in the mirror and think I'm sexy and I know it! I want to take my husband's breath away every time he sees me!

Okay, I started to go off track, but this is me!

Let the Journey Begin!

Day 1: First Run Weight: 215lbs.
I went on my first couch to 5k run on Friday July 20th, 2012.

• Motivation:  I was inspired to go because it was raining, but when I got out to go running the down pour had let up and it wasn't that cool. The run was for 1 mile plus a 5 minute warm up and a 5 minute cool down. The app is okay, but I need to figure out how to put music on it. (I think it was originally designed for an iPhone but I have a mytouch 4g.)

• Carrying: My phone, one of my husband's knives(for safety), and too much extra weight!

• Pathway: I currently live close to a big park which is right next to where my grandparents lived. I decided to run by their house to see how it was doing and then enter the park and swing back to my apartment. Apparently their house is not as close as I thought it was. The app told me I was halfway done before I got to their house and I hadn't even made it to the park yet!

• Thankful for: All the rain trapped on the leaves and branches of trees. As I ran by I would hit them with my hand and my face would receive a cool refreshing splash!

I didn't take this, this is what the leaves were like though!