Time to change, starting point: skinny fat

giftmerain

This is a ramble-y mess, I'm sorry.

I've never been "overweight", but I've always been unfit. I am currently at my heaviest at 65 kg. I normally sit at around 55-58 kg, but these last 7 months have been rough and I've been comfort eating more than I used to before, hence I'm 10 kg heavier.

I stopped eating a few things that I would binge on about a month ago, and since then my weight has not changed for better or worse. I will try to meal prep a bit better and stop eating junk food, but it's a slow process when I'm so overworked most of the time. At the moment it's hard to do anything since I don't deal well with heat, but I am hopeful that once summer ends I can get a bit more productive.

I run 3 times per week, even if it's just 2 km each time, I have 5 km as a goal to be able to run by the end of this year, but I want to include some strength exercises to my routine, maybe twice per week? I'd also like to include some other cardio that I used to do before I started binging, and I've always been interested in yoga, but I can just hear myself saying I'll do all these things and then there not being enough time for it all...

Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays are days that I run. I suppose the natural days to pick for strength exercises would be Tuesdays and Thursdays (or maybe Tuesdays and Saturdays to space them out some more?). Maybe I could do yoga in the evenings? Maybe add some other sort of cardio after I've been running? I don't know.

I have no idea how all this will work, but my goal is to get fit, I don't know what weight I'll land on if I lose some fat and gain some muscles, as said: I've never been fit. I'll take some before photos and measurements (when I manage to find my measuring tape) and keep track that way, I don't know how often I'll check those though, maybe weight once every week and measurements + photos once every month?

I'm excited to get started (as in: for real), but I know that when it's time to actually do something I'll most definitely not like it.

Gosh I hope I'm resilient enough to force myself to do it