Jornal de PHgardener, 01 nov 14

The past nine months have been eventful, fun, hard, and a lot of goals reached. Back in June of last year I was 187#. I started out this year at 180# and started Atkins on 2/3/14 @ 177# as of today I am 116#. I can not seem to rap my head around all that I have achieved. I started out the year in a size 16 jeans and now I am in a size 4. Lost 33 total inches
Off my body.
I started running when I started Atkins. The first time I got on the Treadmill to see what I could do if I pushed my self, I ran 1 mile in 13 minutes. My best friend told me about this group that did "My first 5K". We singed up to train and run the race. We trained together once a week with the group and I trained alone four days a week on the treadmill.
We ran the race on April 26 my time was 31:23. I found that in my 12 weeks that I trained I fell in love with running. I found another race to train for and ran my first 10K in 1 hour 1 minute that was June 15. My daughter and I singed up for our local 5K run for July 18. We trained together 3 days a week and I trained 2 days a week by my self. When the time came to run that race I wanted to compete in it not just run it. My husband agreed to do the race with our daughter so I could compete in the run. I ran it in 27 minutes. I could not believe it. I placed 6th.
My daughter finished it in 41 minutes , she is just 6 years old. I am so proud of her. I ran my first color run in August. I kept training clear up to October 1st. I was running 7 miles in 1 hour.
on October the 1St I had a tummy tuck to remove the extra skin that a over all 70# weight loss left me with. I also had a Brest lift and augmentation done at the same time. Now I am healing from that. I have not been able to even get my hart rate up or go for a 1 mile walk. My exercise is none existent at this time until my Surgeon clears me to return to training. I am hoping to be able to run a half marathon in April.