You're a Runner?!

My last post I wrote about seeing the world with a new pair of eyes! How losing my weight has changed the way I view everything! Wellllll today I learned that other people also see me with a new pair of eyes!

I went to the doctor today since my foot is still in pain, going on over a week now from the Half Marathon! As I was talking to the nurse and she is writing down all my info (I'm a new patient) she looks at me and says so you are a Runner I see. (I'm dressed in my normal workout gear and wearing my running shoes, visiting for a foot injury) Now lets just stop right there and rewind 3 years ago......

If I would have walked into the doctors office wearing my same exact workout gear I wore today! With a foot injury. The nurse would have never in a million years assumed I was a runner! She would have thought I was some lazy woman too lazy to put jeans on, and fell down the stairs on her way to get cheeseballs!!! (for the record when I was at my heaviest I always put on jeans to go out in public for that exact reason of hoping people wouldn't think I was lazy!)  I know I shouldn't be surprised we live in a world where we are unfortunately judged on our appearance. But it felt so much different being on the positive end of that judgement :)
I was treated by the nurses and staff so differently (yes one time a nurse practitioner told me that she couldn't find the heart beat of my baby because of the amount of fat between the Doppler and the uterus and in a very rude way!)

Maybe it was just because I carried myself with more respect and confidence?! Who knows?!?!............
buuuuuttttttttt for the first time in my life I was not embarrassed to step onto the scale!!!! Hallelujah it's a miracle!!!!! I never thought I'd see that day!

SOOOOOOO the verdict on my foot..... I was sent to have an x-ray

The doctor said that she is optimistic about my foot and that she didn't see any fracture but if it was hairline fracture it could still take a couple weeks to show up on the x-ray, but not to run on it for a few weeks, then do a test run and if is still in pain after that to come back and go in for another x-ray. She wanted me to wear this boot thingy for 2 weeks but I said no thanks :-/

 

So I'll be sticking to strength training and lifting for a few weeks! I'll be Elisha Lift Lift Lift instead of run run run for a while! But that's okay I need to work on my building my mom arm anyways!!!!!

This was my first arm workout since I stopped strength training in place of running and let me tell you DON'T stop! I felt like such a sissy starting all over!!!! I can't wait to tone up again!!!!

 

 

 

So I leave you with a little jealously because it is 81 DEGREES today!!!! That's shorts and tank weather!!!!!

Just kidding I didn't wear those shorts out in public! I put my running capri's on! Just because I WANT TO RUUUUNNNNN so bad!!!!

 

 

I leave you with my motivation for the day! This seriously was the best reaction I ever got from someone after seeing the "new" me :) Have a FITtastic day loves xoxo