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so i'm continuing running, and going incredibly slowly, hopefully in a year from now when i read this i will remember where I started, i'm running 4.5 on a treadmill, holy crap that's slow, if i get tired, i just walk because that's my walking speed.

anyways I did 40 minutes though on friday sat and sunday and now it's monday, so no running today plan strength training instead

Just read that new study talking about how you should weigh yourself daily to lose weight, give that a shot anyone reading this.

Sunday, December 20, 2015

continuing 30 minutes of running

So I have completed couch to 5k, and now I am just doing three times a week of the 30 minute run, going to do that for a few weeks so that I can get my cardio fitness up. I did feel like I was going to die at the end, so maybe i'm still not quite in good enough shape to move it up

but it did take like 20 minutes before my heart rate got up to 160, so that's good.

Saturday, December 19, 2015

Started Running again

So gained a bunch of weight and started on c25k again. And I have finally gotten to where I can run for 30 minutes straight, now it's only at 5.0 mph on the treadmill, but gotta start somewhere and you gotta stay consistent, so let's hope that this blog keeps me consistent.

I'm only doing every other day these days so I don't get injured again like last year.

So today I just did walking because yesterday I did the 30 minutes.

The idea is to get up to 6.0 mph on the treadmill and then try and work up to 6 days a week slowly by adding a day every month.

Then trying to get up to an hour a day 6 days a week.

Well I weighed 218 again. back up from 185 last year, so let's see if we can work on that as well.

Don't really much care if anyone reads this, but maybe I can look back on it in a year and see where I was.

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Monday, March 11, 2013

Getting Paid To Lose Weight Possibly More Effective Than Throwing Cake In Th...

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Getting Paid To Lose Weight Possibly More Effective Than Throwing Cake In The Garbage

via Consumerist by Mary Beth Quirk on 3/11/13

(earth2kim)

Instead of wasting money on perfectly good desserts by throwing them in the trash and dousing them with liquid dish soap just so you don't eat them, getting paid to lose weight could be a much more rewarding dieting move. Earning cash and slimming down — in a perfect world, right?

That premise worked for researchers at the Mayo Clinic, reports CNN, when 100 employees took classes on how to eat healthy and lose weight over the course of a year.

Some of the employees were motivated by financial rewards for shedding the weight, while others simply had the classes telling them how to go about being healthy.

"We found that people who receive financial incentives tended to stick with the healthy behaviors we all wish we would do more often," said the study's lead author. "At 52 weeks, those in the financial arm of the study had lost an average of about 9 pounds," he said, "as compared to those who didn't receive financial incentives, who lost about 2 pounds."

It wasn't just about earning money — participants had to pay $20 for every pound they gained and would earn that same amount if they lost. The study's lead author says this wasn't about punishing people for bad behavior, it just started a fire under participants' butts to get serious and also helped to fund the program.

"About 86% of large employers are already offering some kind of financial incentives to help employees reach their health goals," he said. "But one problem employers run into with financial incentives is that they can be expensive. Part of our model was to allow the so-called 'losers' to fund the 'winners,' and I think that can help things to be more sustainable."

One thing that could affect the study, however, was that the people who weren't getting money to lose weight knew about the other group, so some of them might've just dropped out once they realized there was no reward (other than weight loss) waiting for them.

This makes claims of "So help me dairy gods, you'd have to pay me to stay away from that wedge of cheese" a lot more relevant.

Money talks when it comes to losing weight [CNN]

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