Week 25

This has been kind of a weird week. I’ve reached my weight loss goal so I’m just trying to maintain and I have I weighed 191.5 again this week and I still haven’t missed a day walking/running in 140 days. I’m starting to focus more on the running because that is the second part of this thing (I just didn’t think I would be here this quick). It doesn’t look like I’ll be able to make the Marathon in San Antonio not a I won’t be able to run that far, but a money thing it would just cost so much for us to all go motel, gas, etc. I’m going to start looking for one closer by around that same time frame. Today not tomorrow!

Week 24

Well I did my weekly weigh in today the 24th week I believes 191.5 so I lost a half since Monday that brings me to a total of 101.5 since 1 Dec 08. If you would have told me that back when I started that this where I would be today I would not have believed it. It really seems like a dream, but it just goes to show that is what hard work and dedication will do for you. Today makes 133 that I have either walked or ran without missing a day. I’m really where I want to be weight wise. I want to do more running so I know some more weight will probably come off. I’ve been trying to add a little more calories a day but it’s just hard to. I’m going to keep the food log and counting calories going though it just seems to make me more aware of what I’m eating if I keep track of it….Hey I done his today not tomorrow and I’m going to keep on doing it!

101 18 May 09

I weighed this morning and the scales showed 192. That is 101pounds since the 1st of Dec 2008. Wow you know it’s crazy I should be overwhelmed with joy and I am excited, but scared. I mean what’s next? I’ve met my original goal and now my modified goal. I know working to keep it off will be goal now. I mean I’ve, I guess you could say got use to this trying to loose and it’s going to be weird not trying to do it. I guess the focus now will be on the working out and running and meeting those goals. Marathon here I come! I’m busy now so I will try and write more about his soon. Hey you know what I did this today not tomorrow!

2nd 5K

I did another 5K today in Tupelo Ms today. I ran it in 28:39. It was on a trail, I wanted to do it because I thought that it would be different and it was. I won’t run that one again. I guess this was more of a fun run kind of thing and I guess they all should be fun. There were a lot of walkers and kids running in it and the trail for 200 or so runners was narrow, so you couldn’t really get into a rhythm running. I think I did one time for about 30 seconds, and then ran into a bottle neck, but anyway it was fun doing it and maybe I just needed to go into it with a better attitude. Summer went with me, she has been such a help with this. I’ve said it before I think she truly gets what I’m doing and she wants me to succeed as much as I do myself.

Week 23

Wow another week down seems like this one went fast. Of course it was a great week hit the 200 mark and today I was 2 pounds under it. So that makes the total so fat at 95 since the 1st of December. I have gone 125 days without miss a day walking or running. See the food log for the eating part. I’m real tired today and I’ve got a long day ahead of me. I’m at work now and I’ve got to come back in and work from midnight till eight in the morning, but before that I’ve got to film the football jamboree games tonight and they start at 4 with the last one scheduled at 8:30 but it probably won’t start on time. I guess what I’m trying to say is I have a full day and night ahead of me. I was going to get up this morning at five and get my run done, I remember hitting the snooze then going over the route I was going to run in my head and the next thing I knew it was an hour later, so I didn’t make it this morning. The plan right now is to work till lunch eat then go do it before I go to the games tonight. Like I said I’m real tired now. I’ve been real ill, I’m trying to keep my temper under control, but just crazy drama everywhere and I guess my tiredness contributes to it. I’m going to hang in there though, I’m doing this today and not tomorrow.

Mother's Day - 5 Miles - 200 Lbs!

Wow what a day it has been. I was real tired this morning, but I got up and did my run, I was supposed to run 5 miles today and I did! I did it without stopping and I ran it in 48 minutes and 30 seconds. After I ran I visited with Mom and Dad for awhile. Since it is Mother’s day I will say a word about what a great Mom I have, she is a great one. After that I went home and weighed and I cannot believe this, but I weighed in at 200 lbs that’s 93 lbs lost that is my weight loss goal met! It’s just hard to process, I started this on the 1st of December and here I am 5 months and 10 days later and I have lost 93 lbs. I wish I could describe how I feel, but I can’t find the words honestly. I’m proud, happy, and ecstatic and I don’t really understand this one but scared. It’s like Ok what do I do now? I know training for the marathon is the next thing, but it’s just weird. I have literally lived this past 5 months and I guess I can’t believe that I have made it, but man it does feel good. Well how did I celebrate? With a huge meal and lots of ice cream not! I walked with Summer tonight we did 5 miles so that is a total of 10 today! I’ve told myself that I’m not going to make food a celebration thing and I didn’t. I’m going to do two other posts on this soon one will be stats number s that have gone a long with this and then one that is just a recap maybe of some of the highlights that have been left out of the other posts, but still stand out in my mind. I’m doing this today and you can too, today not tomorrow.

Class Night

Summer had her senior class night last night. It was a happy time and also a sad time. I’m proud of her, but it’s hard to see your baby being grown up. I’m excited for her and I know she will do great in life she has a big heart, but this blog isn’t about her. We took a picture together before it started (see above). I’m sorry but when I look at it I’m like wow is that me? I feel so proud, man hard work and dedication does pay off. It takes sacrifice though. Like yesterday it was a crazy day and I knew it would be late when we got out of class night so I was going to get my walk in during the day, but that didn’t work out. So last night after it was over I hit the road to walk five miles at 11 o’clock. I was very tired and didn’t want to, but you know what I’ve found out you have to do this today and not tomorrow, because if you wait till tomorrow it will never come. After I got finished I felt so good I had done it, still tired but good! There was one more thing that happened last night that stands out. During their slideshow Summer had put a picture of us back at homecoming when they recognized the senior cheerleaders. When the picture came up everybody sitting around me went to tapping me on the shoulder and turning around saying who is that guy with Jenny ? It felt good………today not tomorrow!

Week 22

We’ll looks like I made it through the gout episode and have another week done now. If I’m counting right this is week 22. Here are the totals so far I weighed this am and it was 204, so that is three down from last week. It really seems to be coming off a lot slower now, but hey J I’ve got less to lose right. So the grand total so far is 89 since the first of December. I went for 119 days now without missing a day walking/running. I know I’m saying this all the time, but I feel so good now. Tuesday I missed my run because of the gout in y ankle so yesterday I ran instead of walking and I ran 4 miles then walked /ran one more that felt really good and that is a distance record for me on this journey 4 miles atone time is the most I’ve done since I started this. Don’t know why just been feeling a little depressed this week. Maybe it’s just a lot of stuff is going on. I do know the walking and running are good stress relievers and also since I’m in better shape I can seem to deal with it better…..hey life is good though and I’m doing this today not tomorrow.

Gout

I never thought I would say this, but I’m glad it was the gout. If you have never had the gout then you can’t know the pain that comes with it, it is tough. Monday Night while I was walking y left ankle began to get stiff. I didn’t think much about it then when I got home and got in the bed. It started hurting worse. I was starting to think that I had injured it and as I lay in the bed my mind started to run crazy. I was starting to get depressed. I couldn’t sleep, then around 1 AM I started think it might be the gout then by 3 AM I knew it was the gout. Man it was hurting bad, so much so I couldn’t sleep. I did hobble to the medicine cabinet and get some of the medicine that I have for it. Even Tuesday morning at around 8 I still couldn’t walk on it finally after lunch I could put a little weight on it so I went to the doc and got two shots, within an hour it started feeling better. I was supposed to run Tuesday night for the marathon training, but I knew I couldn’t do that, but I was able to walk. I walked 2 miles first then ate supper and it was still felling good so I walked three more. Summer called me and told me this before she knew I was going to try and walk, shed said I have it figured out you can do one lap on crutches and then you walking/running streak will still be alive. That meant so much to me to know she was thinking about me, I really do believe that she gets this that I’m doing and understands how bad I won’t, just like back to her being in the hospital and wanting to make sure I got my time in. She truly is my angel! My ankle was good today so I ran 4 after lunch and then walked and ran one more, man it felt good . I t rained some, but I actually enjoyed that part of it. I got my new running shoes I ordered in the mail today. I really do believe I’m going to like them they are so comfortable!......doing this today and not tomorrow!

3 May 09

Me after the run this morning

The Radar I was looking at.

This is the strom that came up Saturday

Well it’s been a good weekend. I’ve ha d a few challenges, but I made it through them. Friday night was a good change of pace for my walking. They were having a relay for life in the town I work in so I went there and walked there. I wasn’t on a team but it was fun waking with all the singing and stuff going on. Saturday I was getting my walk in and I got a call from Jenny telling me that the weather sirens were going off. I called work to see what the warning was and it was a tornado warning! It wasn’t even raining where I was walking but the warning was for about 10 miles from where I was at! I stopped walking then, so I only got in 2 miles Saturday, but I think that was a good excuse to stop don’t you? Then today I got up early to check on the weather so I could get my run/walk in before the projected storms got here. Well I didn’t get up early enough it was already raining with storms projected to be on there way. I went into work and carried my running shoes with me. I saw a break in the clouds on the radar so I took out running, I got in 4 miles running (without stopping) this is another first on this Journey and I did it in 43 minutes. After I ran I walked another mile to make it 5. I wanted to finish in 1 hour and I missed it by one second it took me one hour and one second to run/walk five miles. I couldn’t wait to run this morning all they into work I was looking at the road and imagining what it would be like to be running instead of driving. You know on the hills I could just feel me pushing to get up them then I could hear myself telling myself come you can do it; you can make it to the top. Then after I got through running this morning I had that runner’s high man it felt great and I was like I didn’t want to stop, don’t get me wrong I was tired, but when I was walking I had the urge to start running again. Like I said it felt great. I went with Jenny late this afternoon to buy groceries and at first I thought it was going to be tough, because I was hungry. So I started picking up everything I wanted and looking at how many calories it had in it and its weird, but I went from wanting to have it to I can’t believe I use to eat like that. There was one thing I use to get every time we went to the store as a snack to eat and drink on the way back home, I added it up to day and it was 900 calories! Wow! I’m doing this today not tomorrow!