Yesterday I wrote about my current and latest new beginning. While I’ve had my fair share of injuries over the years, the series of issues I’ve had over the last 2 years simply won’t go away on their own. As I’m getting older (now 40+), my body just isn’t responding and healing the way it used to.
My personal trainer has been urging me for months now to lose weight and cut my sugar intake, the argument being that less sugar will mean less inflammation in my body, which will lead to natural healing of injuries, especially the kind of injuries I’m dealing with now. The problem is that I don’t diet well at all. I eat way more than my fair share of junk food, and cutting that out of my diet will be very difficult.
At first (over the summer) we made minor adjustments, including cutting soda, adding water intake (up to 130 oz per day), and cutting carbs at breakfast-time. While I didn’t do those things perfectly, these adjustments were fairly easy to make and became habits I continue even now, months later. Between July and October, I managed to lose 8-10 pounds. However, I’ve been stuck at that point since, and I know I need to turn up the effort and really cut the junk to lose the remaining 8-10 pounds that would put me at what my trainer and I agreed would be my running weight.
Now the hard part… getting it done. I’ve been watching Biggest Loser this season for inspiration. I’ve never watched it before this year, and have to say I am really enjoying seeing the transformation taking place in the contestants, and also the kids that are also involved in the show. I’m also hoping that talking about losing weight, especially in forums like this, will help keep me honest. Finally, I also bought a fitbit and trying to use that to raise awareness of what I’m taking in, and the calories I burn during the day.
The fact is, since I’m not running right now, the best thing I can do in my marathon training is to get myself to my goal weight so that my body will hopefully allow me to start running again!
