A Milestone

Tonight a definite milestone was reached. I began my 5k training and decided that I would run outside instead of going to the gym. I found this great website that lets you map out a run and tells you the distance of the route. I attached the link below. So before I left my house I created a one mile run. All day I thought "how hard could 3 miles be?", well tonight I realized it was a lot harder then I expected. Before running I said to myself "I just have to do this loop 3 times", but about a quarter of the way through my first loop I realized how hard this was going to be. With my ipod playing I just kept thinking about all of the readers and how proud I would feel if I ran the one mile loop. Breathing hard, feeling every muscle in my body I just kept pushing through and to my surprise I ran the entire mile except to cross the street at one point. When I reached my door I was so excited, I went inside drank 4 glasses of water and calculated my one mile time. My first one mile outside run was completed in approximately 16 minutes, definitely a lot better then I expected. I'm looking forward to another run tomorrow morning, it can only get easier from here.
Eating also went well today. Cereal for breakfast, salad, yogurt and berries for lunch and a small amount of homemade macaroni and cheese made with skim milk for dinner. My water intake has also gotten much better lately. I have made it a habit to drink one bottle of water before I leave for work in the morning, today I drank 2 bottles of water. Then throughout the day I drink approximately 6,8oz. glasses and 2 glasses for dinner. Hopefully all of these small changes help reach my goal of 1 pound a week.