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So here we are, months in. The scale at the boxing gym says I've lost about 7 pounds, and I can wear my slightly smaller pants without too much discomfort (which is better than not wearing them at all!) so the pairs of pants I can wear have increased from 2 to 4. I'm not in the thinner pants yet, but who knows?

My new treadmill and new garage sale television are all set up in the family room now. I ran 18 minutes and walked 11 today. I've been at the boxing gym now for about 3.5 months, and although there is still plenty to challenge me there, I'm punching and kicking stronger, and able to do more ab work than when I joined. I plan on keeping up with those classes, and adding on 4 18 minute runs a week for a couple week, and upping them to 2o minutes, then upping 2 of them by 5 minutes every few weeks until I reach 15-18 miles a week. Hopefully the extra cardio will up the burn.

My arms and upper body keep getting stronger, which is pretty cool. Of course it also means that about every 3-4 weeks my hands get a beating until they get used to the harder punching, but I'm willing to work with that. When I was sick the week before that I reached a setback, but I'm up and going now again.