This is a late reply but I started couch to 5k two weeks ago and so far I've really liked it. I have tried running with another program a few times before but that one advanced too fast for me and I kept failing until I lost interest. C25k hasn't been easy either but I've succeeded so far and for the first time ever I've actually enjoyed running.
Yeah, if you don't enjoy the workout it's hard to stick with it. I always recommend people keep trying things until they want to find something to stick with.
Last winter I once again gained some of the weight back (10 pounds to be exact) but this time I want to lose it and (some more) for good. My health-care provider offers an online weight-loss program and I started on it three weeks ago. I've been logging my meals, switching saturated fats into unsaturated ones, limited my sugar intake and started eating more fibre as well as fruits and vegetables. Things I should have done years ago but oh well, at least I'm doing them now I guess. I also started running three times a week and going to an aqua class (lame I know, it's mostly seniors there but I really enjoy it) once a week. So far I've lost 3 pounds and I haven't felt the need to binge once.
Better late than never. Don't worry about people mocking you for doing an aquarobics class, it's exercise and they're NGMI. Only suggestion I'd make is adding in some actual swimming to build lean muscle in your upper body too to really torch the adipose tissue.
I'm currently weighing 161,8lbs. My first goal is 150lbs (-11,8 pounds) and my end goal is to reach normal weight which would be 137lbs for my height (-24,8lbs). I'm aiming for losing around 4 pounds a month so I'm hoping to reach 150lbs in September.
11 pounds in 3 months is definitely doable. Just keep your goals in mind and you'll make it. Don't worry too much if you fall short by a couple pounds, though. If you're less than you were before that's the most important thing.
(Not to be sappy but I'm honestly relieved to find a place that is not all "haes" and "losing weight is impossible" It's so discouraging to try and make real changes while being bombarded with those messages.)
Yeah, get out of the bucket of crabs. Fatties are the worst when it comes to coping, and none of them actually believe the bullshit they're spouting (it's why they're so sensitive despite claiming they're fine). Finding a good support line is extremely helpful to losing weight, but the HAES morons want all the praise with none of the work.
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Anyway, I'm also going to share my progress. I ended up really doing...something to my arm. No clue what it was, but the pain was bad enough I couldn't sleep through the night. There was a pulling pain up near my neck, shooting pains down my arm, and stabbing pains in my tricep. The worst was on a thin line running from the base of my neck to the top of my tricep, and my chiropractor was useless. I feel better now, though. I tried to keep up OMAD while I was recovering and was losing weight, but the depression of not being able to do anything other than sit on my butt and watch TV got to me (no shit, my arm was hurting so bad holding a controller or using a keyboard was too painful to do for any meaningful length of time) and the last week off I went overboard on eating. Total weight loss at the end of last month was 10 pounds, and it's holding because old habits resurfaced. I'll get there though.
I got a MyZone fitness tracker last month, and once the pain relented enough to get me back in the gym I used it and found out I was underestimating my calorie burn by almost half (and keep in mind, this isn't the two or three hour conditioning sessions I was doing pre-arm fuckery. It was a half hour to an hour). What does that mean? Oh, nothing much unless you count starving yourself as a major problem, and it was probably the reason I lost almost a month's worth of training. So now I'm eating enough (back to three meals a day because I burn 1000 kcals a day at least between boxing lessons and swimming), taking HMB and creatine, and the soreness is almost totally gone. I still have tight knots up and down my arm, but I work on them every day and stretch longer before and after my workouts and they've been loosening up. Might need to start seeing a massage therapist every few months. Currently 280 and twenty pounds away from my first hundred lost! I'm so close I can taste it!
