Getting in shape

So, everyone knows me from before I started to run, how fat I used to be, and that I have been trying, succeeding and failing at dropping weight. At my highest I used to weight more than 125kg. That was more than 5 years ago, before I started running and stopped drinking coke regularly.

Between then and last May I have been dropping and gaining weight even though I haven't stopped running. Before May I never tracked my weight, as long as I was running it was OK... but last December I weighted myself and I was back at 100kg, I didn't like it... it made me feel like I wasn't doing anything even though I was able to run half a marathon (21km).

After a few months of running harder I weighted myself again... and I only dropped like 5kg, I was still at 95kg, so that day I decided to stop fooling myself and bought a scale, and started to track my food and weight myself daily. I also started to follow a running program, not just go out and run.

I put myself a few short and long term goals. Short term, I wanted to be able to run 10km in 55 minutes by August (my best time was around 60 minuts). I also needed to drop at least to 87kg by that time, and by the end of the year to 82kg. By August I was pretty much on track, but as it happens when one loses too much weight too quickly and doesn't work their muscles... I had a lot of loose skin...

After I came back from vacations on August, I put myself more goals, the first goal was that I want to run 5km in 20 minutes. That training ends in November, and so far I'm on track. The other goal is that I want to lose some of the loose skin, so I have been working out at home, doing some deadlifts, squats with weights, push ups, and some other exercises. It has been pretty hard, but after I started I have noted that I'm increasing my speed while running.

The bad part is that I barely have some free time for myself to either play video games or work on other projects, but I feel pretty good about my progress, and that I can eat a lot now and not feel guilty, these past weeks I have been eating chips and cookies almost daily since I started my new job.

Physically I still don't feel like I'm where I want to, but maybe in a few months I'll upload some before and after pics of my progress. Other than that, I feel pretty good, even if I hate myself every morning I wake up to run.

That's how much I have been running in the last months

I have been tracking my weight every week (at first it was daily) to motive myself.