Just ran around Lake Hefner!! Thank you Dr. B!!!
Fast forward...today I just finished running (RUNNING people!) around Lake Hefner. We are talking moving my body at a speed of 14 minutes a mile around 9.5 miles total with no walking or stopping!
I get "the nod" all the time from the athletic people. You know that nod that says I'm one of them. Its so weird because I never would have even imagined myself biking, running, belonging to a gym and all this stuff. I never even did that when I was young before I gained all the weight.
Well, I just had to share in case there are people like me that surfed this site looking for reassurance that they were doing the right thing. I wish I could have done this 15 years ago. It has so changed my life. I love it!!!
On April 25th I will be running a half marathon! Yep, me the once 350 lb girl. And the 2nd week in June I will be biking across the entire state of Oklahoma in one week. Biking 70 miles a day from Hugo to Joplin.
Life is good. -Amy
190 lbs lost
VSG 07/2008
lower body lift 10/2010
upper body lift 11/2011
Thanks Cathy! I was a bad WW patient and didn't start exercising until January 09. I posted on this board asking everyone to hold me accountable to start going to the gym in the morning at 5:30. I started with that and walking on a treadmill. Then I picked up biking in March and started biking quite bit in addition to the working out.
I worked out for 6 months before attempting to jog. I could jog for all of 20 seconds at a time at first. I just kept playing around with it until I could jog for a full minute. I would walk 5 minutes and jog for 1 minute. In October of last year I did my first 5K and jogged the whole thing. It takes patience and small steps at a time.
190 lbs lost
VSG 07/2008
lower body lift 10/2010
upper body lift 11/2011
190 lbs lost
VSG 07/2008
lower body lift 10/2010
upper body lift 11/2011