Hi all, thought I'd start a post here.

I've been heavy for many years, I rarely exercised, or went once a week and had a great workout, but never went again.

After gaining about 100lbs, I am finally psychologically ready to lose weight, and have lost 15lbs so far on Low-Carb.

So I know I have to exercise, but truly I fought it. One day it came to me, when I was thin, I ran every day, but even with my great treadmill, every time I tried to run, after 30 seconds I literally couldn't breathe! I now think it was actually anxiety about the running, due to the psychological issues I had with the weight to begin with.

So time goes on, a few days after my ephipheny, I just got on the treadmill and said I would run 5 minutes. And guess what? I did it! I made a deal with myself, just do the 5 minutes, be done with it. No stress. I've been doing this almost a week now, and it's already getting easier. I upped another minute today, and I'll just keep adding a minute as I can easily breathe and get through the first few minutes.

This is a BIG deal with me. So big I went to Gold's gym and put the membership on a 6-month freeze. I am not comfortable working out so heavy in front of others. I'm going to keep running until I get up to a 1/2 hour, then I'll rejoin the gym. I expect by the time I"m up to a 1/2 hour, I'll have lost another 30lbs by then too. I feel like walking on a treadmill just isn't cutting it. When I was thin I ran, period. Therefore I'm going to run!

I'll keep y'all posted, but I am very proud of myself, because in addition to Low-Carb, this is a great step in the RIGHT direction!

I'm still running, despite a little injury to my heel. I woke up on Sunday and as I stepped out of bed, I fell to the floor in agony, spent the next 3 days limping, the pain in my heel was unbelievable. Worse when you're sitting for awhile.

So now I'm just pissed, I was doing so well and building my time & speed up. Today I just decided to start running again, and guess what? It didn't hurt a bit! Can't walk, but running is just fine, hmmmmmmmmm, and now my heel feels almost completely better.

I'm on my way!

Well, still limping around, but upped my running to 10 minutes! I am SO psyched I can do this without dying! I am SO happy!

Had a great weekend, drank both Friday and Saturday, but had two glasses of wine on Friday with a Rocket salad, which is greens, steak, vinegarette dressing and goat cheese. Saturday nite had steak and broccolini, 2 beers, so today just dragging from the onslaught of carbs....

Wanted to run, so did my 7 minutes and walked for a bit, and that was a struggle!

Kept it clean on induction levels today and lots of water, I should be back to normal in a couple days. Saturday nite was at a birthday party at a bar, so when the cake came out, had a couple bites and went back to the water, only a little bad

Look forward to running again tomorrow back up to my full 10 minutes, and goal is to be running 30 minutes by the end of the year!

I also did some measurements, I have lost 2 inches off waist & hips, and over an inch on thigh/knee/calf! This in only 3 weeks of running! I am psyched about this!

Caryn..

That pain you had on your heel could possible be a bone spur. Those can be painful..I had a friend that had to give up running eventually from them. Take precaution and if it doesnt get better go to the dr. Google them and find out what they are and what you can do to help them..Good luck..

Cya

Ironically, the heel pain goes away when I'm running, and I was talking to a friend who was a track runner, and he said I'm not rolling my foot when I'm running. I am supposed to roll from heel to toe, but what I'm doing is running in more of a flat-foot fashion.

The pain is lessening, but I'm mad I didn't run for 4 days because of it, but when I decided to run anyway, it didn't even hurt anymore!

Oh well, live and learn...........

I plan on making an appointment with a doc this week, but as long as my foot ain't broke I'm going to run, it's taking the weight and inches off!