Moving Again

Mar 04, 2009

I've buckled down - purged the chocolate from the house - and gotten my treadmill moving again the last few days.  I've been much more strict with myself about letting the carbs slip down my (surgically modified) gullet, and guess what?  My scale is moving again!  I was at 225 this morning!  Only 10 more pounds and I'll be "merely" overweight instead of obese!  I've been classified obese for at least the last 25 years - holy sh!t !  I can almost smell it - seems like it smells like sweaty workout clothes or something, but I'm OK with that, as long as the smell keeps getting closer!

I've been working hard at my treadmill to decide if I can really survive the Redbud Run, and I think I can.  My treadmill was apparently programmed by the Marquis de Sade, because it has this interval program that is really kicking my butt (and my quads and my hamstrings) but I'm doing it daily to try and push towards the pace I'll need for April 5.   I saw some pictures of previous years' runs in a magazine yesterday - there were people bigger than me that made it into the pictures!  I can do this!   There's another couple of weeks before they open up the registration (3/23), so I'm going to keep working at it and see if I can manage to get to the point where I can make the 5K at a fairly good clip.   I can't believe I'm planning this - I can hardly believe it even crossed my mind a second time.  OMG - I'm planning to go out IN PUBLIC and run! and no one will be chasing me with a dangerous implement!  Unbelievable, the changes that have come around in such a short time.

Now I'm beginning to wonder if there will be people there who I know (or used to know)... I'm fairly certain there will be.  OKC is really an oversized small town - you can't go anywhere without running into people you know.  The whole idea of coming across people who I knew 100 pounds (or more) ago at a RUN is just weird.  I'm scared that some of them could have a cardiac event just from seeing me line up there.   Oh, well - hopefully they'll be in good enough shape to handle the shock! 

I may post over on the OK board and see if anyone else is thinking of taking this thing on... then at least I'd have some new friends show up who wouldn't be surprised that I was there.   Hmmm... we'll see how it goes.

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