Just started my first day!! Actually feels great!

I just finished my first run/walk and to my surprise it was actually pretty great!

I've tried starting jogging regimes before but always got burnt out by the end of the first or second week, and one time by the end of the first run. I feel very confident that I can stick with this babysteps-to-actually-running plan though!

A little background: I'm about 50 pounds overweight and the biggest problem was my heart. Hypertension and a resting heart rate over 130 at times.

I have lived a very unhealthy lifestyle for the last 5 years. I was in a relationship with an extreme couch potato, chainsmoker, daily fast food eater, and daily heavy drinker -- who was also very emotionally dominant... so that's how I ended up living, too.

She left me in a terrible way a month ago (one day after our wedding anniversary, straight to a new relationship she'd been developing), so after I got my situation straightened out enough to call life "normal" again, I started cooking and eating real food. Not exactly a diet, but just not eating crap everyday... which was step one.

Step two was to get active again, because in those years I developed some serious hypertension issues and am on 4 blood pressure medications. I'm 29 years old.

I just started step two... W1D1 of C25k. And to my surprise, I'm not dying and I didn't hate it.... maybe I even liked it a little?

TL;DR: My life was unsustainably unhealthy and I wasn't sure how I could start myself up again, 'til I found out about C25K through this sub! Cheers everybody!