http://tracker.dailyburn.com/groups/24/subjects/9231 <p>Hi there! I'm new to running. I started with the couch to 5k program in July and have progressed slowly to running 3.2 miles. My first 5k race is in January and I plan on entering others after that. I have been on a healthy diet&nbsp; life style since last January and lost 70lbs.&nbsp;&nbsp; My vice is weight lifting because for so long I had a fear of it. I was always the unathletic, clutzy girl (my mother had a disease similar to MS and I&nbsp;picked up her bad cordination). &nbsp;I'm slowly overcoming the fear of lifting the weights and working on the machines not to mention working on balance.&nbsp; I still run like a duck&nbsp; but I'm working on it. It's hard to train that&nbsp;out of me since I have done it for thirty years.&nbsp; Sometimes I feel like throwing in the towel and&nbsp;quitting but then I look at how far I come and I know I don't want to&nbsp;go back to that lifestyle. I feel free for the first time in my life and that's enough to keep me going when everyone is eating junk food in front of me or&nbsp;the gym is&nbsp;empty and I have self-doubt.&nbsp; Any advice you can give someone who has just started out on this lifestyle?&nbsp;</p> en-us