My Fastest mile ever!!! 8:39!!!
Through my life I have lived a few trials and tribulations. Everyone has. I’m no different than most people. One exception is that I have managed at this point to loose over 100 pounds in the last three years.
I don’t know what got into me finally. Maybe something in my brain finally told me I wasn’t happy and I couldn’t go on living the way I was. So I started doing some yoga. Then after that, I started following Leslie Sansone’s “Walk Away the Pounds” I probably lost 30 pounds following those videos. They were great because I didn’t have to go embarrass myself at the gym with how out of shape I was. You just popped the DVD in and away you went. I ended up with a variety of the DVD’s. After awhile, I wanted to do something a little different, so I started going to spin classes and after a while I lost another 30 pounds! That really got my started riding bikes outside.
Then I had a little derailment. I hurt my back and eventually had to have back surgery. It took about 4 months for them to exhaust all the other options and just do the surgery. Before I went in, I could barely walk. After I sat down from walking, I had an enormous pain in my ass, literally, and it would shoot down into my calf and my foot would go numb. You can imagine I didn’t exercise during this period, but I ate well enough that I didn’t gain any weight back. I remember just a few hours after my surgery, they had me stand up and walk around. I cried. I could walk again, there was no pain, no numbness. It was like being born again. Obviously you can’t workout too hard after surgery, so I had another month off, then I went to physical therapy for a month, to get my muscles and mobility built back up. I had an awesome therapist and she incorporated a lot of pilates in the sessions.
