My Journey With Weight Loss – Remembering To Take It Slow

I saw a tweet the other day from someone I don’t follow but I just had to comment. He noted since June 1, 2020 he had lost 103 lbs from changing his diet and from starting to exercise. He boasted that he had just done a 5 mile run. I had to comment and noted in that same time period I had lost 57 lbs and had just done a 5k run. His response ‘keep up the awesome work’. Supporting each other through this journey is so important.

I let my coach know about having run 5k on Tuesday and at first I was a bit disappointed in her response. I’m to bump up my interval to 4 minutes running and 1 minute walking for 10 intervals. As well I will add 1 interval to my hill training each week. Wait, what? I thought she was going to encourage me to do a 5k each week not just increase my intervals.

As I have said before I do exactly what my coach tells me so today did the new intervals and yes it felt great. I reread her instructions and realized how wrong I was to be disappointed. Her message was clear, she is proud of me and she noted that I am becoming a strong and confident runner. She also reminded me that I am now half way to my goal of being able to run 10k. I know she has a plan for me and it is take it slow, remain injury free and I will get to that goal without being discouraged. Even after everything I have achieved sometimes I need to be reminded that I was unhealthy for a long time and I need to have patience to get to that finish line. So, slow and steady is how I will keep doing this and as always listen to my amazing coach.

I wanted to note a new change I noticed in my body this week, the veins in my hands, arms and legs all of a sudden are very distinct. Of course I had to Google this and there are many causes which fit me; 1) fair skin 2) weight loss in that the veins are no longer covered with fat and 3) exercise. Apparently this is normal it was just I hadn’t seen this in myself before. Another new look for my ever changing body.