Running progress

So far so good, 2 days in and today I slightly exceeded my set time. Need to be more strict with myself when it comes to food, but other than that its going well.

Getting fit for life

Its taken a while, in fact its taken about 12 years for me to begin to fulfil the promise I made to myself to increase my fitness level. From now on I am following a schedule of diet and exercise to increase my general level of fitness largely because I do not want to be out of breath walking briskly up stairs any more. Its embarrassing quite frankly and totally unnecessary!

I'm almost 29 years old and I live a pretty sedentary lifestyle currently so I'm not imagining this change will be easy. My company allows me to work from my home office and because I work long hours it's really easy to go from the bed to the office chair to the fridge to the office chair to the bed day after day. This is not a healthy way to live and it means that at the moment I have a resting heart rate of somewhere near 64 bpm and I am about a stone and a half over weight with a waste line that should be about 4 inches smaller that it is.

My fitness program is going to include running, walking and some basic strength exercises. I'm going to alter the way I eat slightly and reduce the amount of dairy and meat products I eat - although the thought of going vegetarian is not an appealing one to be quite honest!

Day one is a run/walk of 1 mile - starting tomorrow and it builds up slowly until after 30 weeks I can run 12 miles.

Wish me luck!