NSV - The past 77 days!

This is just a copy/paste from my blog...but this is the first time I realized that I have been successful and will continue to be during my journey!!! I thought I would share

Probably a weird number to look back on my progress but I was thinking about it a lot while on the treadmill yesterday.
Back in October, my birthday came and I got sick of always regretting not losing the weight. I got sick of wanting to stay home every year because I was too embarrassed to go out. I got sick of looking back to the previous year when I vowed to lose weight and it didn't happen..in fact that year I gained. I swore I would not be fat turning 30. So, I vowed by my 29th birthday I would lose at least 100 lbs and on my way to the REAL me. This person, the 305 lb person I became wasn't me. The real me was hiding..buried inside this person I didn't like. So, on October 26, 2010 - the day after my 28th bday I started my journey..again. I think it was like the fourth or fifth time of the year that I was "starting again". There was something different this time. My ambition and drive were different. All the other times I thought I wanted it, but this time I KNEW I wanted it and I was going to get it!!!!

So, 77 days later, here I am. I've stuck with it so far and lost 40 lbs. That's roughly 1/2 lb per day. I am so happy with the way I feel. It's not even about those numbers on the scale, or the tape measurer for that matter. I first stepped on that treadmill on November 22, 2010. I had been doing Power 90 for about three weeks up till this point. I got on the treadmill and 3.0mph, no incline was HARD for me! That's insane! I went 6 days a week and tried gradually building up my speed. I had horrific shin splints that kept holding me back. I tried to push through them, and did some strengthening exercises for that muscle next to my shin..they started feeling better. I was doing little intervals where I'd start at 2.7 for a minute and work up 3.5. That minute when I got to 3.5 couldn't end soon enough..It was ridiculous how hard it was! Over Christmas break, my gym partner couldn't make it b/c of her daughter and I decided to take a week off the treadmill to give my legs a rest....I came back and now I am doing intervals of jogging @ 5mph and my walking is 3.5! When I looked back and realized how far I had come..how hard 3.5 was for me just weeks ago and how now that was my low "recovery" speed, I was amazed! My body is getting so strong! I AM doing this!!!! I then got on the arc trainer..the first day of this I could hardly pull off 3 min...I did it for 10 min and could have kept going. I've also made lots of improvements on the elliptical...1 resistance when I started was hard for me to do..I'm up to 5 and could probably boost it up!

I am just soo excited!! I am changing. My mind is changing, my body is changing. I'm training myself to be able to run and can't wait for that day that I run the entire 5k! When I was thinking of starting the Couch25K I honestly was thinking, I am not a runner, it won't happen for me ever. But you know what? It WILL!! Why can't I be a runner? I want to be so badly and I am willing to put the work in!!!

So, here's to another 77 days..maybe I'll be 40 lbs lighter, maybe not. But I do know, regardless of that number on that scale, I WILL be stronger. I WILL have more endurance. I WILL be running that 5k!!!!

P.S I couldn't do it without my friends on MFP, I you all!!!!