tried jogging

My son wanted to take up jogging so I tagged along.  I jogged about 1/3 of the 1/2 mile loop near our house.  Will have to work up to it for sure.

 

I was so scared of jogging/running....I started the couch to 5 k program...it starts you up gradually.

I'm now on week 6....it is amazing how much progress I have made.....there are apps you can download to your iphone or ipod, or if you are like me and don't have the facy gadgets, you can download a ton of podcasts or mp3 type broadcast/music that walk you through the program.

www.c25k.com

check it out.....

 It looks reasonable.  I'll share it with my son and we'll give it a try.

it takes time, but you can do it!  I'm a graduate of the couch to 5K program and recommend it!

I'd like to jog/run too, it's always been out of my range with weight and health. I have asthma and it's more major than minor. I've been hospitalized 6 times for it. My lungs don't put up with much. But I dream of being able to run, it looks so free- well just awesome!

One concern for people with WLS, how do you stay hydrated while running? You can't guzzle water like before surgery.

I do know that some walking/some running may work- and gradually increase the running/less walking part of the track.

Good luck!

At nearly 2 years out from surgery, I pretty much can guzzle water.  On my longer runs, I carry a bottle of water with me.  Anything under 1/2 hour though, I don't need to carry water with me.  If it's SUPER hot out, I will, but on a nice cool day, it's just me and my music.

With time you certainly can guzzle water.  However that's not what you want to do.
If you are guzzling, then you are playing catch up to dehydration and that never works.
On top of that you get the washing machine effect of feeling like you have a gallon of water sloshing around in your stomach.

You should practice taking in fluid consistantly in small quantities.  Get ahead and stay ahead of the hydration curve. 

I set the timer on my watch and it beeps at me to take a drink.  I drink a mouth full every time it beeps and every time I feel like I need some.

You can figure out your sweat rate then divide that by the amount of time you are going to be working out.  It will give you an idea of how much you should be drinking and then you can figure out how often you need to drink to keep that rate up.

The Test

1) Weigh yourself nude right before a run.

2) Run at race pace for one hour, keeping track of how much you drink (in ounces) during the run.

3) After the run, strip down, towel off any sweat, and weigh yourself nude again.

4) Subtract your weight from your prerun weight and convert to ounces. Then add to that number however many ounces of liquid you consumed on your run. (For example, if you lost a pound and drank 16 ounces of fluid, your total fluid loss is 32 ounces.)

5) To determine how much you should be drinking about every 15 minutes, divide your hourly fluid loss by 4 (in the above example it would be 8 ounces).

6) Because the test only determines your sweat losses for the environmental conditions you run in that day, you should retest on another day when conditions are different to see how your sweat rate is affected. You should also redo the test during different seasons, in different environments (such as higher or lower altitudes), and as you become faster, since pace also affects your sweat rate.