I haven’t run since October of last year by choice.  I kind of threw it out the window in lieu of walking.  I was tired of running for the last 10 years and I didn’t “need” to run any longer.  My reasons for running aren’t there any longer plaguing me, haunting me, taunting me.  I’m happy walking and using my stationary bike and my rower…… until I recently caught wind of Ethan Suplee.  Now if you don’t know who that is, it’s the huge kid from Remember the Titans.  Yup Lewis Lastik (character name) is no longer a huge kid.  HE”S JACKED!!   This guy lost 300+ lbs naturally and looks totally amazing!  He’s driven, honest, funny and for me, motivating!  Holy crap I want to be like this guy!  if he can lose that much weight then I can get back on the stick and start working with resistance bands, light weights in addition to running again and using the stationary bike and my new rower.

Until now, I lost all motivation for anything but walking.  I’m still working on the running but right now I’m happy running 2 miles 3 days a week.  I have no desire to run even 3 miles at a time.  This may change as I begin to regain my shape and however long it takes, nothing can be as hard as losing more than 300 pounds so there are NO excuses!  I like Ethan’s comment that he needed to think about food as fuel, not entertainment.  Until I read this I didn’t realize that it is EXACTLY how I think of food!  OMG I have a problem and I need to rework how I think about food.  Food is a fuel which in part means I need to eat when I’m hungry not because it’s break time.  I have to be in a caloric deficit to burn calories which I knew but it’s part of putting together my formula and my plan.

Ethan has a podcast which I am listening to and enjoying.  He also has an Instagram page @ethansuplee and one of the things I like most about him is that he isn’t out to collect followers or sling bullshit.  He is out to achieve his own goals, share lessons along the way for those struggling as he has / is and to stay fit to spend as much time as he can in this life with his wife and kids.  Now that is someone who in my book is someone I admire and want to follow.

So as of now, it’s back to work setting goals and working hard to get where I want to be.