UPDATE!!!!

As I said in my previous post, I was going to wait until next week to take my break. After starting out on my usual 2 mile walk/run last night, I quickly realized that it may have to happen this week. I was so uncomfortable while running that I could only do 1 mile. One of the main reasons I was going to wait until next week was because I have a weigh-in coming up next Monday morning and I wanted to see some results. But one thing I have learned so far is you have to listen to your body. You can tell the difference between a healthy burn from exercise, and actual pain. I was really feeling it in my knees and my upper thighs. The reason I got right out there and started running in the beginning was because I have never been a strong runner and I wanted to get used to it for boot camp. But when you're as heavy as I am, running can be hard on the knees and ankles and the legs in general. So unfortunately I have to stop this week and rest my body, let it restore, and get it ready to lose some more weight next week. I will use the rest of this week to research weight loss, try and find some things I may be able to do differently, change things Im not doing enough of, or doing too much of, etc. See if there are any aspects of my routine I can improve upon...anything I can do differently that may benefit me more. So we'll see what happens. I may have lost some weight, I may have gained a little, I may see no change at all. But that's what all of this is about...learning as I go along. As impatient as I am and as much as I want the weight gone, I have to do this the right way and I may take a few steps forward one week, a few steps back the next week, and no steps at all the week after that. The key is, not letting anything discourage me and remembering "there's always tomorrow." So we'll see how it goes. I'll update Sunday to list all the things I plan to do differently for the next 3 or 4 weeks. Then after that we'll probably move into a whole different routine. Always keep the body guessing. Then Monday we'll get into my 3rd weigh-in, etc.