Replacing fat with fit
by Sync24.fit
Its such a chicken and egg situation.... you put on weight, you stop exercising, you put on more weight then your joints start to complain. This is what happened to me and become one of the biggest catalysts in me starting My Herbalife Challenge.
I used to love running - OK hubby says I didn’t run it was a slow jog! But even so I enjoyed it and it got me from A to B a lot faster than I could walk it ! I used to managed about 5k round the fields at least 3 times a week, or if I was working in London along the Thames tow path and back along Twickenham bridge.
I used to try and get a 10k in at least once every couple of weeks ,and always during that time I’d sort out all my problems at work,. I’d mentally fix so many of my clients network issues, I’d resolve so many system or programming failures and most often just put the world to rights. It was my little bit of escape – my ‘me’ time when nobody could demand my time or attention.
I love the film ‘what women want’ and the advert that Darcy comes up with for Nike says it all – ‘the road doesn’t care its just glad you turned up’ is just brilliant and I always used to think of it as I was putting off getting my trainers on and it would motivate me to ‘just do it’ (the silken sound of Mel Gibson’s voice in my head used to help as well !!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9nQnBzBui8’
Running allowed me to eat pretty much what I liked and not put on weight. When a change of job an increase in family commitments and a change of routine, a couple of years ago put a halt to my running, the pounds started creeping up and that extra weight increased even more. I’d had to give up fencing years ago due to a knee injury and the extra weight really put on extra pressure and that old injury flared up bringing an even futher halt to my running.
Then the back pain started – initially just my lower back then into my hip so that even walking became a problem. I couldn’t even get on my horse anymore let along ride him and walking became difficult and even the thought of running was painful. I went to see my local GP who advised I had sciatica and possibly some arthritis in my hip and lower spine which was being made worse by the extra weight. If it continued to be debilitating then surgery and even a hip replacement was an option – I was totally horrified, hip replacement at my age !! that was enough to spur me on to lose the additional weight and see if the pain would decrease.
But as everyone knows losing weight without exercise is near on impossible, and you can’t exercise when you can hardly walk… my uphill battle began ….!!!
I’d tried lots of other diets and never really managed to stick to them, the minute the word diet came into my vocabulary I started thinking about food ! so Herbalife was a real blessing – for at least 2 of my meals each day the biggest choice I had to make was what flavour shake to have ! (my fav is Chocolate by the way ).
I started walking as much as I could – especially uphill which seemed to free my hip up so much more.
Gradually the walking became quicker and this week I was able to break into a gentle jog – am so happy as without even noticing the pain has almost disappeared ! I’ve only lost a stone so far but its been so easy I know I can lose the other 3. My energy levels have gone through the roof and I just want to run to burn it off – trouble is I’m not there yet and if I did I’d probably end up with an injury. So for now its still slow and steady – but when you can see a lovely bright shiny light at the end of the tunnel that run suddenly becomes so much easier.
I used to love running - OK hubby says I didn’t run it was a slow jog! But even so I enjoyed it and it got me from A to B a lot faster than I could walk it ! I used to managed about 5k round the fields at least 3 times a week, or if I was working in London along the Thames tow path and back along Twickenham bridge.
I used to try and get a 10k in at least once every couple of weeks ,and always during that time I’d sort out all my problems at work,. I’d mentally fix so many of my clients network issues, I’d resolve so many system or programming failures and most often just put the world to rights. It was my little bit of escape – my ‘me’ time when nobody could demand my time or attention.
I love the film ‘what women want’ and the advert that Darcy comes up with for Nike says it all – ‘the road doesn’t care its just glad you turned up’ is just brilliant and I always used to think of it as I was putting off getting my trainers on and it would motivate me to ‘just do it’ (the silken sound of Mel Gibson’s voice in my head used to help as well !!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9nQnBzBui8’
Running allowed me to eat pretty much what I liked and not put on weight. When a change of job an increase in family commitments and a change of routine, a couple of years ago put a halt to my running, the pounds started creeping up and that extra weight increased even more. I’d had to give up fencing years ago due to a knee injury and the extra weight really put on extra pressure and that old injury flared up bringing an even futher halt to my running.
Then the back pain started – initially just my lower back then into my hip so that even walking became a problem. I couldn’t even get on my horse anymore let along ride him and walking became difficult and even the thought of running was painful. I went to see my local GP who advised I had sciatica and possibly some arthritis in my hip and lower spine which was being made worse by the extra weight. If it continued to be debilitating then surgery and even a hip replacement was an option – I was totally horrified, hip replacement at my age !! that was enough to spur me on to lose the additional weight and see if the pain would decrease.
But as everyone knows losing weight without exercise is near on impossible, and you can’t exercise when you can hardly walk… my uphill battle began ….!!!
I’d tried lots of other diets and never really managed to stick to them, the minute the word diet came into my vocabulary I started thinking about food ! so Herbalife was a real blessing – for at least 2 of my meals each day the biggest choice I had to make was what flavour shake to have ! (my fav is Chocolate by the way ).
I started walking as much as I could – especially uphill which seemed to free my hip up so much more.
Gradually the walking became quicker and this week I was able to break into a gentle jog – am so happy as without even noticing the pain has almost disappeared ! I’ve only lost a stone so far but its been so easy I know I can lose the other 3. My energy levels have gone through the roof and I just want to run to burn it off – trouble is I’m not there yet and if I did I’d probably end up with an injury. So for now its still slow and steady – but when you can see a lovely bright shiny light at the end of the tunnel that run suddenly becomes so much easier.
