A few weeks ago I wrote a post about the Under Armour #WhatsBeautiful challenge. When I signed up for that challenge I had to state my goal and it was to run my first half marathon after losing more than 200 pounds. I've read quite a few blogs where people started training for races (some half marathons some full marathons) and that they gained weight. *gasp* I didn't want to gain weight... obviously. The week that the group ran 5 miles (and coincidentally after I'd had a couple of weeks of gains) I was running with Coach Bill and I asked him if he thought that because of the increased amount of training that weight gain was unavoidable. I was surprised (and frankly relieved) when he said no and encouraged me to stay away from the pre-run binge on pasta/bread and instead continue to focus on getting my carbs from fresh fruits and vegetables. When he said that I was like YES! This I can do because all of those things are FREE POINTS!!!
Fast forward a few weeks and I am happy to report that half of that goal has now been accomplished. When I went to weigh-in today I was a little nervous. My last weigh-in was only last Thursday so really how much weight could I lose? Additionally, after stepping on my scale this morning and seeing that I was only down 0.2 pounds I thought I might not even have a loss this week. Imagine my surprise then when I stepped on the scale at my meeting and realized that I lost 2.2 pounds for a total of 201.0 pounds. It's awesome and trust me when I say that I am aware of the awesomeness because I can do stuff that I could never do before. Like run SEVEN miles. At one time. Without stopping. Also impressive? Being able to shop at basically every store (ironically except the plus sized clothing stores) without wondering if I'll fit into the clothes.
I have lots of other thoughts rolling through my head right now... I can't quite explain how I feel and apologize if this post is all over the place. I'll try to gather my thoughts a little better before I post again...
So what do you do now that you couldn't do before?
You are very inspring!!!
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