This fall (and still) I participated in 2 wellness competitions at work. I've decided moving forward that blogging about them may be interesting and helpful to others and gives me a place to share recipes, ideas, tips, etc w/o boring people on my facebook feed.
Some background:
For most of my life i was blessed with a really good metabolism. i weighed the same from about 15-24ish. I finally gained some weight (not a bad thing) in my early-mid 20's and actually felt really good. But slowly some more weight creeped on. In February of 2012, before I turned 30, i decided i wanted to get back in shape and do a 5k. I started walking/running with my neighbor and did 2 mudruns and a trail 5k that year. It was hard and by summer i wasn't running as much as i had been, but i still was in better cardiovascular shape than i had been since college.
Then around Sept of 2012 i started the most stressful/miserable job of my career and for almost 2 years i ate like crap, was stressed all the time, not sleeping well, blah blah blah. on came about 20-25+lbs over that time that has been very difficult to lose ever since and made it too easy to add more lbs on just by looking at food.
I hate exercising..i really do. i enjoy walking and feel great when i do go to the gym, but i have wasted more money on gym memberships over my lifetime than i care to admit. My husband loves to run and work out...i just do not have that in me. So that is always a struggle for me.
Tomorrow will be a summary of how the past 10+ weeks have gone, what has worked, what hasn't worked, and the story of the most disappointing doughnut of my life.
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