Tada!!!!

Most of you are probably wondering what the whole "tada" thing is all about. Well, its not what you see, but what you don't see. That would be 20 lbs! Ok, so its nothing spectacular, I know, but everyone that knows me knows that I have battled my weight my entire life. Late this summer, I decided it was time to get serious about losing weight and keeping it off. Its difficult for me because its not as easy as cutting fast food and sodas from my diet. I already eat a decent well balanced diet. Carbs are my downfall, but its hard to fill up when you don't like meat. Going to the gym is not really a solution either. Not only is it expensive but I feel like the whole room stops and stares to see how out of shape the fat girl on the eliptical really is.

So I got a treadmill and started running..... and running..... and running. Well, I guess in the beginning it was a brisk walk. At first, "running" a mile in 14 minutes was accomplishing a lot. Now, I am down to a 9:40 mile. Granted, the second mile is usually a bit slower, but the fact that I can even run a second mile is a huge achievement. Now I'm up to 3-4 miles a day and I would say that Im almost addicted to it. I have found that its more effective if I break it up into 2 sessions - one in the morning and one at night.

So the other day, my dad, a former avid runner came over. I was all excited about my newly acquired abilities and wanted to see how I compared, so I asked him how fast he would run back in the day.

"Oh, I don't know. I probably did a 9 or 9 1/2 min mile.", he said.

Woo hoo!!!! So I'm doing pretty dang good, I thought. That is until he started calculating his mile speed.

"I'd manage to run about 6 1/2 or 7 miles in an hour, so I guess that puts me at a 9 min mile, right?"

Here I am all excited about my 3 or 4 miles and he's doing 7 at one time???? I guess I have a long ways to go.