Dear Amy, So we’re just one night away from getting on a plane to start our Walt Disney World half marathon experience and I know you are terrified. First I want you to take a deep breath, relax and remember that no matter what happens at this event, you've already accomplished what we set out to accomplish together. You've completed 37 weeks of training for this event. You have run countless 5k’s leading up to [...]
I've been running my whole life. I don’t mean that I have been putting my feet to the pavement and racking up the miles in races. Nope. Until about two years ago running wasn't a physical activity for me. It was an emotional one. Internalization was a lesson I learned young and perfected by my teenage years. Anger in my house was an emotion that bred dysfunction and abuse. It was the fuel behind volatile [...]
Last week I received an email from the Outreach Coordinator at a company called Oscar Insurance who provides health insurance in New York and New Jersey. They were looking for influential bloggers to write about their Health Hero, a person in their life that helps them stay on track and stay healthy as part of their campaign to help spread the news about their new approach to healthcare. I’m not the type to take the word “Hero” [...]
Guest Blog by "How do YOU Celebrate Success" Contest WinnerAmy Smith Hello Slender Seekers! It’s me, your How Do You Celebrate Success contest winner. And I have a confession to make: I've been struggling. Like… a lot. If you've lost a large amount of weight, you already know a fact that surprises people who haven’t: It’s much harder to keep weight off than to lose it in the first place. The hardest part about losing [...]
This has been harder than any other training program I have ever held myself too. My body aches in ways it never has before and I keep asking myself “Why is this so difficult for me this time around?” When I answer myself back it sounds like my Father’s voice and it says, “You’re comparing apples to oranges, you've never done THIS before.” It’s the absolute truth. Not that I haven’t done a half marathon [...]
As a Weight Loss and Wellness Coach, I often use the illustration of a teeter-totter when sitting down with a new client to go over the theory of “calories in, calories out” and to explain the importance of putting good fuel in our bodies to support vigorous activity. As I lay in bed restless tonight, I am thinking about an article I read about people who sit on both sides of the spectrum of weight [...]
I got in the car huffing and puffing and threw my hands over my face to hide the emotional storm that was brewing within me from the driver. I had stopped my Nike+ Sports watch at 6.2 miles because that is the distance that I had intended to run and the obsessive compulsive in me needed to know what my pace for that distance was, rather that the time after that where I slowed down [...]
Guest Blog by "How do YOU Celebrate Success" Contest WinnerAmy Smith The day I won the How Do You Celebrate Success RunDisney Wine and Dine Half Marathon contest, it felt like it was all about me. Pandora's phone call, congratulatory messages from friends and family, my head spinning at the idea of running 13.1 miles… but by the next day, it had turned into so much more. It became about tons of people inspired to [...]
I wish I was perfect. I've striven for perfection ever since I was a little girl and got very discouraged when I couldn't do something that stood up to those high standards. I’ll never forget the first time I brought home a report card with a B on it; I sat in the car crying hysterically because I hadn't gotten straight A’s. I was in the third grade. I wish I was clairvoyant. I wish [...]
So our #WineDineC210KPrep couch to 10K is over and now it's time to start our 20 week to Half Marathon Training here at Desperately Seeking Slender! If you missed out on our couch to 10K, now is the perfect time for you to join us in this 20 week beginner to half marathon training schedule! But guess what? THIS time I'm going to encourage you to participate by offering the participant with the best overall time improvement [...]
