My Journey With Weight Loss – Holy Crap, What Did I Just Do?

Yesterday I was listening to a radio talk show and the topic was men’s mental health. The guests started off with saying that mental health issues are more difficult for men. This just made my blood boil. Mental health issues are difficult, full stop. It doesn’t matter your gender, age, race or culture, it is not easy. This is not a competition so stop presenting it as one. I did agree with them when they talked about that getting moving can help. Do it on your own or even better with a friend and just check in with one another.

Today was training day so off to the beach I went. When I hit the bottom of the hill I hit start on the interval workout on my Fitbit and started running. After a while I realized I had been running for way more than my 3:30 minute interval but my Fitbit hadn’t buzzed. I decided to keep running and see if I could get to the pier which is a little over a mile. I kept running and when I got to the pier I decided to try to keep going and see if I could make it back to the bottom of the hill. I managed that I decided to keep going and run up the hill. I got there and realized I had just run 5k (for my US friends that’s a little over 3 miles). What the hell! I knew I was getting stronger and building endurance but I never thought I was at the point of 5k.

But here’s the thing, when I was doing my cool down walk I realized I wasn’t even breathing heavily and had barely broken a sweat. Does this mean I am actually now more fit than I have ever been? Well, I guess it does!

I have to say when I was done I called my husband to tell him what I had just accomplished. He told me how proud he was of me and I have to admit I am pretty proud of myself. I won’t ever be a fast runner, I only run as fast as my knee will allow me without having a limping gait but that is ok, I can now run 5k!

I have to confess I had a huge sandwich for lunch because I was starving. Pretty sure that it was because I burned a lot of energy on that run. Didn’t even feel bad about that sandwich because I know I earned it.