I am a fat girl. I am a fat girl who has spent most of her life with her nose in a book. I've never been athletic, I've never been into sports. I have a very special (and probably slightly inappropriate) relationship with complex carbohydrates and refined sugar. I have asthma and creaky knees. I am the opposite of competitive. All in all, I've spent 28 years becoming the soft, gooey young lady typing to you today.
That said: I'm fucking tired of being jiggly. I'm tired of the lumpy thighs and muffin top. So I made a pretty drastic decision last week: I'm going to start jogging.
It was suggested by a friend that I look into the Couch to 5k program. It's super easy. You jog a bit, walk a bit. Then you work up after a few days to jogging a bit more, walking a bit less. Until after several weeks you can jog the entire time. I'm on day 3. So far I've been doing okay. Not awesome. I haven't always made it the whole 20 minutes of jogging/walking. Sometimes I have an asthma attack and have to stop for a little while. Sometimes I feel like I'm dying and I curse the sky and begin bargaining with a God I'm not sure I believe in.
Feeling particularly optimistic the other day I made myself a mix for my iPod titled 'Running'. Mostly I've been listening to it while I clean the kitchen but I have listened to it while jogging/walking a few mornings. It's a whole bunch of Lady Gaga and Amanda Palmer. I figure 'dance-y and/or angry' was pretty motivational.
Pitfall though? Whole milk mochas. And I work in a coffee house. Going to have to keep jogging if I want to stave off turning into Jabba the Hut.
I started couch to 5k this morning. I used the jersey fresh mix and made it through. i think its gonna be awesome. we will be fat girl running machines.
ReplyDeletei'm gonna go ahead and need that jersey fresh mix. is it anything like the jersey shore soundtrack? which is actually awesome.
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