Runners: Did you start with Couch-to-5K?

I am interested in hearing about peoples’ experiences as a beginning runner, especially if they started out doing the Couch-to-5K or any similar regimen.

Did you stick to it? How did you increase your time/distance after you finished the program? If you started out hating to run, when did it get better (or did it not)? What was your source of motivation? Or, on the other hand, do you loathe running?

I just started “from scratch” last week with the hubs. So far, so good! Usually, I overdo it and wind up hurting myself.