Tomorrow is day one of my new plan to improve myself. The past four or five months have been really hectic for me. Everything was fine until a knee injury flared up. That put me out of comission for a while. Exercising pretty much came to a screeching halt, and then I had a PCS because I finally graduated from tech school. My eating habits didn't change, though, and I haven't had access to a scale since the knee injury. Finally got a scale in the mail the other day and I was disgusted with myself when I saw that stupid number pop up on the screen. Hopefully I'll be able to do the right things to get my weight down and start feeling healthy again. I've been going to physical therapy for my knee and that's been helping a little. I started running again today and will continue to run on a regualr schedule again unless my knee decides otherwise. I hope it doesn't because I've never been good at dieting, so working out was always my way of cancelling out the calories. I'm starting out with light running as prescribed by my physical therapist. He said after a week or so of light running, I can bump up the pace a little bit. So hopefully this will work. I have a PT test coming up in September as well and have every intention of  getting above a 90. My goal is a 96, but I'll need a 13 minute mile and a half time to make that happen. I know that doesn't sound very fast but for me, it is. I've never been a runner. My body is designed for strength, not speed. I'm fine on all other areas of the PT test and can max out on points for that. So running's the only thing left to improve. Hopefully I can get my time down again. I was so close before my knee injury. I only needed to shave a minute off my time to get down to thirteen. Now I'm back at square one. We did a mock PT test about a month ago and I ran a 15 something mile and a half. I was beating myself up over it but I know it's because of my knee. I went to the doctor that Friday and was told not to run for thirty days. I just hope I can stick with it this time without any issues, or at least minimal issues, from my knee. I need to get back in shape. I know I would feel so much better if I did. I know strenth training is important too, so I'll be sure to do that after I run. I just hope everything goes according to plan. I guess tomorrow and the days to follow will tell.

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