I'm so happy... I lost my first stone! :)) Well, there's another 8 to come, but... I'm starting to see some results. This past week was Carnaval here in Brasil. And, being in Rio, the heart of the party, I had a week of extra workout, dancing my ass out! :) So, that helped a lot, since I wasnt very strict to my diet this past week, specially with the beer (and we dont have light beer aroud here, only regular extra caloric ones). But I'm learning to eat less, even if its unhealthy food... And I'm back to normal life tomorrow, and my regular diet and workout.
And I made a decision! A crazy, crazy one: I wanna run a marathon. Period. Well, the next Rio Marathon is in july, and there is just no way I'll be in shape for that. But they have what they call "family run", a 6km (about 3,7 miles) circuit. I think this is more realistic, for a start point... So, I'm still getting in shape for run, I'm increasing my lenght in walk each week, and I'm thinking about start running in the beginning of April. And start a beginners training for the 6km family run! Then I'll try the half-marathon of Sao Paulo in january, and, if everything goes well, I'll run the marathon next year!!!
So... I'm going to run the marathon! Oh my... that's the first time I said that "out loud"... I'm not telling my family yet, cause they wont believe in me, I want to do the family run first. So, you guys are the first ones to know about it!! And I wanna share this with you... And, if someone feels like running the marathon with me, lets go get it! :) I sure will need all the support I can get...
Oh boy... I think I just did a dozen of grammar mistakes on this text, but I'm so excited... Stay tunned folks, there's a marathoner on the way!
I'm feeling really well right now... I just came back from a 45 minutes walk true the incredible sigths of my city, with this great almost-full moon making company to me. I decided to increase the distance of the walk, after a week of warm up, and now I'm walking 4.2km (2.6 miles), with a HUGE hill on the way. I admit, I was delaying the increase of distance because I was afraid of the hill. So, I decided to start my route trough it, wile I was still full of energy, and leave it behind me. Well, it wasn't so dificult as I first thought. And at the end of the walk, even with the new difficulty level, instead os feeling tired, I felt like I could walk myself to the moon. So I'm veeeeeeeeeeery happy right now! :) And I lost another pound! Wooho!!
Oh, and before I forget, I found this incredible site, WalkJogRun, that allows us to trace walking/running routs in a Google Maps map, and it automatically calculates distance, speed, pace, time and burnt calories, for free! I'snt it great? Its my new walk budy. If you wanna see my rout, search for "Orla da Boa Viagem".
Hello everyone... I was missing for a wile... No excuses. I didnt had a good start, lost motivation, and gave up. But not completely... I was in vacations, so I had the perfect excuse to dont have a rotine. I end up gaining some pounds, then losing all again... And now, I am truly commited with my weight loss program. I started again last week, and already lost 2.5 pounds! Since my goal is to lose 2 pounds for week, I had a good start, right?? This time I know I can do it, because its diferent from every other times I started a diet-exercise plan. Now, I really am commited with it, it even feels diferent. So, let's see... I will be around more often now... I already used all of my excuses, now only the discipline remains! :)) XO Lud
Hello everyone... So, I complained about the lack of people on EP, and I was the first one to disappear for days... Well, this was the last week of classes on my master course... and I had a LOT of work to do!! The last class was yesterday, and I had to manage how to make my final work in, well, two days. That was my fault, I aways manage to leave things to the last minute. But I've been sooo busy and tired lately... So, I end up not sleeping from wednesday to thursday! But I managed to delivery all the paperwork.. WOOHOO!! I guess it's vacations now... kinda... I still have all the other projects to do, but at least I dont have to go to classes untill march (it's summer break here, three months of a great big happy nothing at university!!) So, I didnt workout on wednesday or thursday because of the paperwork... or today, because I was very busy, well, sleeping my eyes off. And... I ordered a pizza. I know! I know! Huge mistake. But I was hungry, and tired, with no food on the fridge, and I called three diferent restaurants and NONE was accepting VISA on delivery today, something to do with being friday and the places are all full and they need all the VISA machines they have on the restaurants. I dont understand why, with all this movement on business, they cant just buy more VISA machines, so the poor hungry and tired people in their houses may have an option, besides pizza! But, thats one of the misteries of my country, delivery services kinda sucks, dont matter how much people use them. So, Im three days off with my workout, AND I ate pizza. I was thinking about not bloging today... you know, pretend all this never happened. But, Im pretty sure everybody here have their misbehavior from time to time... and if I start this weigth loss commitment lying to myself, I would be half way into the my old path, of denial and excuses. I decided I needed to confront my excuses, because the "very busy" thing is half true, and half was just me being lazy. Again. So, here I am, my name is Ludmila, and I ate a pizza! Geez, that hurted... Good night you all, and please have more discipline than I!! Kiss Lud
Hi! So, today its raining cats and dogs here. Im not going to walk. But thats OK, I'll do my workout routine! :) But I couldnt go to the supermarket, and I only have white brad, milk and chocolat in the kitchen. I was trying not to buy stuff untill I do propper grocery shop... I guess it was not a great idea.
Im feeling kinda disappointed... were is everybody in EP? Nobody around? :(
Hi! So... here I am, the new girl... New on EP, new on blogosphere, new on this diary thing. But really not new on weight-loss battle.
Im from Brasil, specifically Rio de Janeiro. And I have a not-so-good english knowledge. I first decided to write in portuguese - my mother language and stuff - but them I start to think... most of the people in this network speaks english. Most of the blogs are in english. And Im here to communicate, right? Exchange experiencies, try to learn and get support. This would be very difficult if I do it in a language that most of the people here dont speak. So... I take this opportunity to improve my english writing! And I ask, pleeease, have patience with my verbs and pronouns, and please correct me! I will try to do my best... :)
I have felt very bad about myself lately. I've never been so fat. I'm 112kg, about 246 pounds, for 1,75m (about 5'9"). I have no energy, I cant do simple tasks, I feel depressed. And Im only 26 yrs!!! Last friday, I went to an end-of-the-year celebration with my masters class. OMG, when I saw the pictures... I was hugging a friend, and his hand was in my arm, and my arm have twice the size of his hands! I felt like I could hug him to death, like a grizzly bear hug! So, I decided to stop thinking about get thinner, and start doing something!
I dont want to be really thin. I mean, I WANT to be really thin, but Im realistic enought to know that I will never be supermodel thin. So, right now, I just want to be healthy, more atletic (I really want to be able to do some sport!!), and feel good about myself.
Today, I went for a walk. It was raining, but I went anyway. Is summer here, and really HOT, so walking in the rain was kinda nice. I start slowly; some time ago, I used to walk 6km (3,8 miles) in a quick step, but I decided to go low-profile for now... I went to a path that Im not use to, and, OMG, the view... Sooo much better than the one I used to get! I live by the sea, so I was very happy to try the new easy path for today! :) There was not many people around because of the rain, but this really nice lady cross paths with me and said: "keep going, you will make it!". I felt good... I get so many bad reactions in daily bases, was nice to see a friendly smile.
So, I will start walking every other day (mondays, wednesday and fridays), and doing the You on a Diet Begginers Workout tuesday, thursdays and saturdays. Im not on a diet yet, cause I need to do grocery shopping, but I decided to start the exercises. Cause I aways wait for something: I cant exercise, cause Im not on a diet, and I cant start a diet cause I need to buy diet food. So, Im walking! I did the first step... And tomorrow I will do grocery shop. Lets see how it goes! :)
