Hey everyone!  I had a reality check recently and I wasn’t happy with the way that I looked.  I feel like a larger person swallowed my body and my small face is poking out of the top.  Imagine Baymax, I felt like that.  I was ashamed to say anything to anyone, but I wasn’t being real about being serious.

My reality check came the Tuesday before Thanksgiving.  I had a heart-to-heart talk with a friend of mine.  I felt like a phony to my followers of my blog or my social media channels.  I represent a “Mother Runner” living a healthy lifestyle, but my waistline was expanding and my running posts were decreasing in frequency.

Hmmm was that a connection?  Was my lack of running causing me to be less happy; and being less happy causing me to not want to run?  Was that why I was gaining weight and feeling crappy about it?  Whatever it is that was going on.  I said it out loud that I realized that I wanted to make changes.

Hence, the #Runner2Healthy Challenge

I needed to take the following steps:

• Get back to being consistent.  When we lost daylight because of daylight savings time, I lost my time committed to running at the end of my day.  Now I have to rearrange my workday to find time to end my day before sunset or go at noon in the middle of my workday.
• Stick to my training schedule.  Increase my mileage as my training plan says to get in the 18-20 miles I want prior to the WDW marathon weekend for the Dopey Challenge after I had lost a lot of running in the Spring/Summer because of my sprained ankle.
• Clean up my eating.  I joined Weight Watchers.  I need to track my eating and lose weight.  In reality I need to lose 30 pounds, but I am setting myself a goal to lose 10 pounds by the end of December so I can start 2019 on the right track.  I want to minimize the sugars and simple carbs and increase my increase in vegetables.

So What Does This Have To Do With The Runner2Healthy Challenge?

Do you need to change some habits, and clean up your eating?  Do you want to lose a few pounds?  Do you want to lose 10 pounds or more?  Here’s the place to participate in this challenge.  I am collaborating with two other bloggers to run a challenge.  When you register you will be given a link to a Google doc.  We are basing this on the honor system so please be honest.  On January 1, 2019, we will enter our final weight to see how many pounds we all lost.

Do you want to join me?

Please like my Facebook Page and type #Runner2Healthy to join in the discussion thread so I can see who is joining me in the challenge.  If nothing else, let’s just learn how to have control to make it through the holiday season without eating a pound of shortbread cookie dough before even making a batch of cookies!  Or attending a holiday party and polishing off a bottle of wine and an entire cheese ball.

Also register by following the steps below for the chance to win prizes throughout the challenge.

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