Crabapple

I took a yoga class two or three years ago and I have to agree. It is a lot harder than it looks.

That is so true. I have been working out for two years and thought I was in fairly good shape. I knew that I'd be lucky to run a full minute initially, but thought I'd follow the running schedule better. For example, I should be able to run 5 or 10 minutes or more by now, but I am lucky to run 1 1/2 to 2 minutes.

It's probably good to take a break after a run like that. I don't even know what a foam roller is or how to use one.

Me, too.

I call Arizona home, but I've been living in Utah for the last 4 years.

That's great! I'm glad you beat your previous time.

It's easier to run after having coffee. Not because it gives me energy (it doesn't. It relaxes me), but because after I drink it, I'm not hungry for several hours. The main reason I drink coffee is for brain health, though.

Yeah. One place I read said you had to drink 4+ cups of coffee every day to have a problem. I drink about 12-14 ounces, 3-4 times a week (2 6-oz cups, approximately). With a lot of almond milk.

Kudos to you for doing this. I keep repeating, so you are definitely better than I am.

Definitely layers. Maybe a backpack to carry any layers you take off?

On some thread that I can't find now, I posted that coffee leaches calcium from one's bones. Turns out that the amount is negligible. (Sorry for the large font below. It's a copy and paste from an email I sent this morning.) If 1-2 tablespoons of milk offsets the negative effects of caffeine/coffee, then it really is nothing to worry about, so I'm back with drinking coffee on my run days. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/12204390/

Pockets in leggings! You lucked out. None of mine have even a hint of pockets.

Thanks for posting that. That's very encouraging to all of us who struggle to keep the pace that the c25k wants us to keep.

Good vibes coming your way. I hope it warms up a little there. For us, today makes two days in a row that we had sun. That hasn't happened for maybe a month or more.

Heck, it will be like only half a day's work.

That's true - small successes are still successes.

So, how are you doing? Are you out there doing it?

That's great!

I was researching something about coffee (I forget what) and came across something that said coffee leaches calcium from your bones. A friend of mine says it doesn't leach very much, but I think it might not hurt to just not drink it anymore. Now, if I loved the flavor, it might be a different story.

It would be easier to make guesses if we had more information, but I'll give it a shot. The following is what I've learned from studying, and my own experience with my own body. Your mileage may vary. What you want to cut out if you want to lose fat and water, and gain muscle, is most of your carbs. Most of us have a high carb diet, and carbs (especially if you eat carbs and fat at the same time) will create fat. Protein is very helpful when you're working out. Your body needs more protein when you run or do weights or swim and so forth. Meat is an obvious source, but amaranth and buckwheat contain all eight essential amino acids. Amaranth also has three times the calcium of milk and millet has 15% protein, plus it's high in vitamins and minerals. Quinoa is supposed to impart energy and strength, as well as having a lot of nutrition and minerals in it. I hope this helps.

I've been watching my weight steadily creep back up, especially during the last month or two, so I'm making this post as a form of accountability. I want to succeed while I still only have around 20 pounds to lose (at one point I only had 3-5 to lose [cry] ). I intend to do my best to stay away from wheat, dairy (except for the little bit I put in coffee three times a week), candy, and alcohol (except for religious purposes). I am also going to see about getting back into intermittent fasting better than I have been doing it (which is actually half-assed right now). I'm thinking the eating window will be between 1-7 p.m. not counting the coffe days (and I intend to wean myself onto black coffee or run with no coffe once I get into the IF groove).

By the way, my post was meant to encourage you not discourage you. I hope it did what I intended.

I did week 1, then week 1, then week 2 then tried week 3 and went back to 2, then did week 2, and today finished week 1 again. So that's a total of 6 weeks to date - and I'll be starting week 2 again on Monday. I'm at the point where most of the time I can run for a full minute and, if it's not up hill and I'm having a good day, I can run for a minute and a half. An important note if you are keeping track of your runs: When you do a day or week over, it erases what you've done, so you might want to write down your runs (dates, times, and distances) on paper or in a program like Fitbit or Google Fit, etc.

I think they recommend that you can start about that week since you've already run a lot. If you do that week and it's too easy, then just skip forward again. If it's a little bit hard then you could just go back a week.

That's a lot to overcome! You can totally do this!