galahadsmom
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| Name: | Rachel |
| Location: | Potomac, Md |
| Quote: | get it right & get it tight!
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| Age: | 40
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| Gender: | female
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| Joined: | 04/17/08
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| Last login: | August 5th, 2009 @ 5:18pm |
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Well, I started out at 270ish pounds -- diabetic, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high triglicerides, no energy, depressed, etc...
My doctor scared the crap out of me... and I decided to do right by myself, lose weight, get in shape, work on my mental issues that were holding me in a nasty destructive pattern.
Now I can run over 20 miles (am training for a full marathon in November 2009!!!), do weights, work out with the best of them... still have about 30-40 pounds left to go, but am in the best shape of my life emotionally & physically.
Is it worth it? HELL YEAH!!!
I will never allow myself to be that fat, out of shape and miserable ever again. Sure, some days its a real challenge... and I love to eat good food, love the creamy/crunchy/sweet... but I now know to just have a little, and to move more to compensate for it.
Now, when I get down with those depression moments... I try to work it out with exercise not with a bag of M&Ms!!!
Best news of all... my doctors are not considering me to be diabetic anymore. I am officially just "insulin resistant" or "pre-diabetic"... hopefully I can kick those labels too! And, I no longer need medicine for high blood pressure... I do not have high triglycerides or cholesterol anymore either! WOW!!! GO ME!!!
Anyhow, I love living life, being crazy... doing fun stuff that people 1/2 my age wouldn't do (like jello wrestling -- don't believe me, look in my photo album!)
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