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Body Image.. What makes us beautiful!
A friend posted a picture this week of a person at 250 lbs vs a person at 120 lbs. Quoting the following…
“Healthy thoughts for Thursday!!! “This is a Body Scan of a 250 lb woman and a 120 lb woman…
Look at the size of the intestines and stomach; how the knee joints rub together; the enlarged heart; and the fat pockets near the brain. Not good!
It’s about being HEALTHY. If you keep doing what you are doing for another 10 years…where will you be? Your body IS a temple…question is do you treat it that way?
If this isn’t motivation to cleanse your body of impurities, I don’t know what is!”
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My Response:
“Here’s the thing though! I’m 200lbs down from 295. I just finished my first marathon! I know people that are 100, 110, 120 lbs that can’t even run a 1/2 a mile without dying for air!
Healthy is not a number on a scale or the size of your clothes.. Because even thin people are out of shape, have heart attacks, triple bi pass, and so on! It’s eating right and exercising that makes you healthy! You can not judge a person by this picture! Im sorry you just can’t because I’m proof of that! People look at me when I walk around proud with my marathon jacket and ask or look at me like “you ran a marathon” damn skippy I did! Then they say “well I can’t do that!” But it doesn’t mean I can’t! I’m not a size 2,4, or 6 but I’m a happy size 12/14. We need to stop making body image so negative instead we need to make living a healthy lifestyle the best image we project!
Just my food for thought!”
My response was simple and straight to the point. Because If I had listened to what people said to me and still say to me.. I wouldn’t be where I am today. Healthy, Happy, and a Marathoner. The company she represents is a company that promotes weight loss with pills, quick fixes, and shakes. Not eating healthy and not exercising. This is the image that they are promoting and honestly this is not a company that I want to be a part of… This is why I chose to go with Beachbody. Because of the sense of community, Healthy eating, Positive reinforcement, workouts, and bonds!
What are your thoughts on Body Image? What does the word healthy mean to you?
Down But Not Out!
So here’s a little update on what’s been going on! Vacation started July 27th as we headed down 95 south towards North Carolina. 2 hours into the drive I felt my legs cramping up so I went to stretch my leg.. Upon doing that I felt pinch and a crack… I knew this wasn’t good.. At the next rest stop I’d get out and walk it out hopefully easing the pain.. Through out the drive I had a stiffness and soreness on the interior of my left knee.. We get to our first destination, Roanoke Rapids. And I have a hard time walking for a moment until I warmed up my knee. We got in to the hotel and I elevated my leg and took some Alieve. The next morning, I woke up and I was okay not to much pain.
Once in Topsail Beach. I noticed that I still had stiffness in my knee and a weird pain in the interior of my knee. I ran a few times while down there but there was one night where I woke up in sever pain clenching my knee.. All I could think of, ‘NOT MY MCL! PLEASE NOT THAT!’ I again took some Alieve, elevated my knee and went back to bed. That evening while cooking dinner I twisted the wrong way and well Down I went, clenching on to the counter in pain.
So with that, I haven’t been running in 2 weeks trying to let my knee heal some. Today, is the first day in 2 weeks where my knee isn’t killing me. I am still gunna make an appointment with an Ortho but even that makes me nervous.
In other news.. I am going back to school for my RMA ( medical assistant ) !!! 35 and I am going back to school… Nervous as all hell but I got this!! This is my year! 35 is the new 25, RIGHT? right! lmao. I am also getting a second interview with Lululemon on monday! I never thought I’d ever work there but I am stoked..
Day 1 Week 1 Marathon Training!
So HOLY CRAP IT”S HERE!!! It’s really here. This is where my life get’s serious and all the BS is left behind. I’d be lying if I didnt say that I started to cry last night thinking about where I have come from, what I have accomplished thus far, and where I am about to go. OMG I AM RUNNING NYC WITH #MYRUNNINGFAMILY!!!! Get Stoked.. But first, I Thank God for my #SoulSister Amy ( aka: THE AWESOME MOM ) For making me get off and out of my Couch Monster position and hit the streets running.. Cus man, I was not and have not been feeling it lately since I hurt my foot! But I did it. So up first 4 mile run! I ended up doing 3.34 miles instead because my headphones died out pretty much 1/4 of the way through. and I’m sorry I need to listen to my jams when I run. It gets me 110% out of my head.
4 mile run – 3.34
SW: 208
Time: 49:20
Pace: 14.52
WOD – Not Crossfit related.
With all of my sports related injuries I’ve steered clear of the Crossfit faze that everyone seems to be sweeping up. I’m not knocking it but I’ve done a lot of research on it and well I honestly don’t trust 99% of the Crossfit instructors in the area. But what I have eaten up is SHAUN T and his amazing T25. This is my second go at it and I LOVE IT! I keep a majority of the jumping in the moderation form as I have bad knees but I still get a great workout. Plus I throw in some routines from one of my favorite sites FITSUGAR.
So today I did..
T25 – Alpha: Total Body
FitSugar – 10 Minute to Tone: Arm Workout
Ab Workout – Tone Your Ab’s