Last month I was getting dressed for a concert and went to put my dress blues on. I knew I had gained a little weight. Little did I know I had actually gained a LOT of weight. Suffice it to say it took a can of Crisco and a crowbar to wedge me in to those pants. The zipper suddenly became afraid of heights and refused to zip more than half way. (Well, maybe it was afraid of being suffocated by the mass of my now-giant belly). I had to use the little tab for the button inside the pants to keep them up. All this and I hadn't even gotten to the jacket yet! Luckily for me, my shirt is too big by a lot so when I was seated you could not tell that I had been poured in to my blues pants.
That was the moment I said, "No more."
I am getting older, which means I have to be more vigilant about keeping the weight off. I also have aspirations of one day passing a PT test, which I have not legally done in SIX YEARS. I have decided that running will put me back in to the shape I want to be in. I am fully aware that I will never look like I looked at 22. Lord help me, I wish I knew then what I know now- I would have been naked CONSTANTLY at 22 if I knew what I would balloon out to at 27! I just hope to be able to fit back in to my old clothes (I am down to one pair of comically large pants that fit- I've taken to wearing dresses) and pass a PT test.
I also want to start a family soon, and I do not want to be fat before or during pregnancy.
This is where I'll be posting my progress. There will be pictures of my naked belly to track my progress every now and then. Maybe every 2 weeks. There will also be progress of my run time. It is one mile around the circle of my neighborhood so it should be easy to track. I would LOVE feedback from those of you who are in this same boat and would like to keep me informed of your progress. Just leave me comments or shoot me an email.
Let's start here: What was your "Aha" moment?
Keep on running,
Mrs. Non-Runner
You sound like me, only if I'd known how lucky I had it in high school I wouldn't have complained about how fat I was then.
ReplyDeleteGood luck! I've subscribed to your blog. I've hit a plateau/lack of motivation...you've inspired me to keep at it.
-Julie
Audra! First of all, your belly pics are not gross, I promise. But I can definitely understand wanting to try to manage your weight. I gain all my extra weight in my belly and it drives me nutters. I have been running pretty consistently for several years now, but it's probably time to start trying to run longer distances at a time, so I'll definitely be following your blog for inspiration.
ReplyDeleteGood luck. Running is a habit that you have to beat your brain into submission in order to keep. I've found the more I run the more it doesn't bother me, but if I stop even for a few days I start getting lazy again. And this probably won't help you, but I don't wear a watch to track my time because then I can't stop checking it to see how long I have left, and it makes everything worse. You should also probably do some weight training to cross train a little and work your muscles in different ways. That would probably help with weight loss. I do a few crunches and pushups before I run. ( Also, my advice is highly unscientific--just a warning there.) Sometimes I listen to podcasts of This American Life when I run--that's a little different than listening to music and can distract you from how much running sucks.