After telling myself I would do so for a year, probably several actually, I finally strapped my sneakers on and went for an evening run today. You know how it is, you tell yourself you're going to do it but when the time actually comes you have all the excuses. "Oh, it's too late today," "I feel too tired" etc. But today I realised that I'm almost always tired because of my poor sleeping habits, and if I chose not to run because of tiredness I'd never go for a run. So I have a sleeping problem to work on, but I won't put my exercise on hold while I'm trying to solve that. No more excuses.

Anyway, I lasted about 10 minutes before I felt like I couldn't breathe, I was getting cramps and had to slow down. Yup, I am way out of shape. I miss the days when I used to be able to swim 10 laps without any issue! But in any case, baby steps. I'll try again tomorrow for 15 minutes without stopping and keep pushing every day to go longer until I can run for 30 minutes without stopping.

In the end I only actually ran for about 15 minutes total at a moderate pace, but I burned the rest of my calorie goal for today by walking (750 in total!).

Bit of background, I'm in the overweight class of BMI (27 ish) and I've been trying for almost a month to start losing 18 lbs using only my diet and the walking I do at my job alone, and it wasn't working. I'm still at my starting weight and may have actually gained a pound or two. Once I realised what I was doing wasn't working (although it doesn't help that estimating exactly how much food you eat is soo hard with things that don't have nutrition facts labels - and even some that do. I will probably get a food scale soon) I knew I had to push harder. Walking is easy and doesn't take much effort, but it takes me all day to burn the same amount of calories walking as it would 30 minutes of running. Better to save your time and just do 30 minutes!

Anyway I know it's not much, just a start, but I just wanted to share this with someone.

So for any of you still in the contemplation state of the cycle of change, in the immortal words of Shia Labeouf, just do it! Cut through your own excuses!

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