A mile a day, keeps the fat away....well maybe.
At many times in my life, I jogged at those times, I wasn't obese. Why would I stop running? Your guess is as good as mine. I'll tell you what has improved - excuse making. I'm a whiz at those. If I could lose weight for every good excuse I gave, I'd be a short, super model! BOOM!
But I regress, no one loses weight by giving excuses not to run, not to work out, etc. I started to run on Friday, August 8, 2014. I made a proclamation that I was going to run a mile every day. I don't know why I thought that running a mile would be easy. Ha. Yeah, running is not like riding a bike. It's more like foreign languages. I took 8 years of Spanish - between middle school, high school, and college. If you don't use it, you lose it. You can say and comprehend some words and phrases, but any chance of being fluent are gone. For me, running is very similar. I can run bits and pieces, but running the whole damn thing is out of the question. At this point, I'm alternating - walking/jogging, switching it up every 0.2 miles. I start by running (and wheezing) the first 0.2 at 4 mph, then walking the next 0.2 at 3.5-3.8 mph. Back up to 4 mph for the next 0.2...and so on up to 1 mile.
Do you know how hard it is to start and stay consistent? I was ready to quit after a long day of work and it was only Day 2. Please see above on the excuse thing. I went to the gym at 10:15pm...and hopped right onto the treadmill.
By the end of my mile hike - I'm dripping and dying. LOL....after one mile. I feel like a fool during the mile - people around me, running at 7 mph, or higher and I'm dying at 4. I'll say, after my mile, I feel like hot stuff. I doubt I'll ever be at 7 mph but maybe I'll move into jogging the whole mile or more.