Yes, you're right about just giving myself a little credit for getting off the couch! I try to remember that and keep my perfectionistic self at bay when I can.
Yep, we have a treadmill at home, and a TV right in front of it!!
I like to leave it on VH1 or Mtv (when they actually have something on besides Room Raiders, for gods sake). Anything that gets me going! Actually it seems like car ads have really good music!!!
Usually I start around 2.7 for 4min and then work my way up over the next 5 min to 3.2. If I slow down the pain stops, so I guess that seems like the logical answer, right? But it's so irritating!! I can walk that fast, if only the muscles wouldn't tense up! It must be the way I walk.
I went to Le Cordon Bleu in Mpls, but lots and lots of cooks I know never went to school and make a fine living. Actually, y'all are doing better than me since I can't even find a job right now! I am trying to learn lighter ways of cooking now, it's very different than the french style I was taught. Sure, we took a nutrition class, but the chef was very bad and no one took it seriously...and here I am 80 lbs overweight!!! My own fault.
I'm trying to vary my workouts, using a stability ball and videos (yoga, cardio), and I think it's going okay - except my sciatic nerve has decided to act up and make cardio really painful. Other than that, it's all moving along!