Weigh-in and WTF am I thinking?

So, first, the important stuff:

Starting Weight: 290.3
Last Week: 285.8
This Week: 282.6
Net Loss: -3.2
Loss-to-Date: -7.7

YAY. Had a really good week food-wise and it showed on the scale. Huzzah! I was nervous because Derek and I had our date night dinner out last night instead of tonight because the meat we were going to cook wasn't thawed. I kept telling Derek I didn't want to ruin weigh-in, and thankfully, I didn't. Although I'm curious now what that number would've been if we hadn't gone out! We went to Bonefish Grill -- I made good, delicious choices for the most part (though I did have part of a cup of corn chowder and a small piece of bread) and I guzzled water, so I got full quicker. Other than last night, we ate in all week, with the exception being last Saturday, our "cheat" day. I made some less-than-awesome choices but I worked hard to recover from them. I really needed this number after last week's dud of a loss. I'm on my cycle again (sorry, TMI, but relevant), so I was expecting the number to suck. I'm expecting it to suck next week for real, though, because it did on my last cycle. We shall see! 

In other news, I think my sanity has sprung a leak. Derek and I have been talking and I think... wait for it... we're going to try the Couch to 5k program. WHAT!? (I know that's what you're all thinking because that's what I hear in my head everytime I vocalize or otherwise express this idea.)

Couch to 5k is a program that is like, 9 weeks (or as long as you want it to be), and is designed to take people from being non-runners, to being able to run, well, a 5k -- 3.2 miles. And we're going to try it. AND IT WAS MY IDEA. WHAT THE BLOODY HELL ARE YOU THINKING? (Sorry, that was my inner voice talking again...)

I don't honestly know what compelled me to utter the words "let's try this". I've always been of the school of thought that you only run when something is chasing you. I hate running. HATE. Even when I was less...erm... portly, I still hated it. What the heck is the point? Aside from that, it always made me feel like shit. So why on earth would I want to do it? 

Well... for one thing, my nurse practitioner prescribed me an inhaler so that I could attempt this whole running thing without my lungs trying to rip themselves out of my chest. I have to admit that's made me actually curious to see if it works. For another thing, I've run out of ideas of ways that I can be more active that a) don't require me to go to the gym and b) don't cost money. Aside from the "startup" costs of appropriate running shoes, this won't cost anything. And, I've heard people talking about C25k for years and I'm finally thinking that now's the time to try something like this. There's a cool iPhone app for it, where you can integrate your music and while you're walking/running, it gives you verbal cues when your minute(s) are up, so you don't have to have your eyes on a watch (I'm a class-A clutz -- do we really trust me to run while taking my eyes off the road ahead of me? HAH!). C25k seems about as beginner as you can get, and the app is designed so that even though it's broken down into like 9 weeks, you can stay on any of those weeks for as long as you want. So, if after week 1, I still can't manage to run for 90 seconds at a time, then I can keep trying the next week. Honestly, I think it'll take me even longer than that. Aside from all that, I've been obsessed with upping my step count on my FitBit, so that's motivation as well. 

Either way, this is a huge step for me. Derek and I haven't really discussed specifics yet.. it's too cold to do this outside right now, and I have a really huge phobia of running on a treadmill (what? I told you I'm a class-A clutz!). We're also trying not to lose our minds with wedding planning, so adding more to our plate is not very enticing. We'll see! Wish us luck! :)