Luckily, although I haven't been running, or really doing any physical activity at all, I've been trying to still eat (mostly) healthfully. I haven't (really) been drinking pop, I mostly (occasionally) avoid sugar and sweets and I always (when I feel like it) eat good healthy food.
So my last go around as I cut out all the really bad stuff I was doing I lost around 20-25 pounds. Of course I have gained some of that back by doing my impersonation of a sloth for the last year. But I've had a little tickle in the back of my brain to start running again. Mostly an annoying little itch that says get back out there. Yes it's true that I pulled a hip muscle and that kind of put me out of commission and then while down I succeeded in mentally conditioning myself (again) that I hated running and couldn't do it.
So the other day I scoured KSL (Craig's List for you out of towners) looking for a cheap treadmill. This winter Cody finished his hobby room in the basement and I've been thinking I'd like to make a work out room down there as well. Just etch out a corner and make it my own power-building, endurance-enhancing nirvana. So I found a really cheap treadmill for sale on base and I asked the guy if he would take half for it (it had been listed for almost a month) and he said sure. So yay, now i have a treadmill. (My theory on my hip is that maybe I pulled a muscle due in part to general flabbiness and the other part being the roads here all all slopey slanty so your feet are never hitting the same level. That's my theory, anyway Oh, and PS we have the worst air in the country right now so running outside seems a little counter-intuitive. We're number 1! We're number 1!)
And here's the best part - I've actually used it! I used it everyday for the first week I had it. This week I've only been on it twice. Every day this week I've had something going on and no time to fit it in. If that sounds like an excuse, it is. But it's ok to own up to my excuses because today I wanted to make one, but instead I just dragged my butt down there and did it.
