Hi!

I just had to share a NSV that is totally unrelated to the sleeve or weight loss. Yesterday, I completed my very first half marathon in San Francisco!! It was truly a life changing moment and I'm happy to say I DID IT!!! I was a member of Team in Training and raised funds for teh Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS). Being in San Francisco, the course had 4 huge hills, one being a mile all up hill and I did it! I didn't stop once other than a potty break at mile 1.

When you hear these stories and you see the faces of those who lost their battle or who are still fighting it.. children, young adults, older folks... it really affects you. The whole time I was doing the marathon with already torn tendons in my foot when I started, when they burned or hurt or I was looking up those hills going OMG how am I going to get up that.. I just kept thinking, "Get your butt up there and walk, this is much easier than what these poor folks have to go through... this aint nothing, now walk"... Some of the signs being held up got to me also... One said.. THANK YOU from someone going through chemo now.... one said Without you we wouldn't be here and it was pictures of folks affected by cancer... it was so humbling..

What makes me proud aside from helping raise money to save lives is that I did it being fat!!!! The hardest course in the country and I am fat and I did it! I wasn't the last to finish either!!! Not by a long shot!

SO, I can hold my head up and say I did it and you know.. I'd probably do it again! Just had to share!

That is awesome. Totally incredible! Congrats, and for a very good cause.

mysunflower621

congratulation on doing 1/2 a marathon. what an accomplishment , and when you are carrying around some excess luggage, makes it all the harder- you can do a whole marathon in a year - you won't have to carry any luggage this time!!!!!

raising money for such a good cause, the emotions you must have felt - how wonderful

hats off to you girlfriend

good luck with WLS

speedy recovery