Happy New Year Goal Crushers!!
When I started this blog, I weighed around 350 pounds, my doctor called me fat and told me that I needed to start walking…Sarcastically I told him yeah I’ll run a marathon and blog about it. Who would have known that interaction would be that aha moment of 300 Pounds and Running. Many asked how I came up with the name it’s because I was literally 300 pounds and I was going to run a marathon.
Now that I’m no longer 350 pounds and I’ve ran my first marathon. The title 300 Pounds and Running shouldn’t be taken literally but more metaphorically for now on…
300 pounds (technically 350 pounds) is a weight in which I hope to never see again. It’s a reminder from which of I came and you know the saying, “You can’t know where you going unless you know where you came from.” That’s true in so many ways….
The “running” portion of 300 Pounds and Running has multiple meanings for me…
The first meaning of running is to move freely or unrestricted, like running water in a stream being able to move no matter what.
Secondly running means actively working (towards my values), like the idiom “up and running”
Lastly running means to go with the flow like, “run with it,” this is comes from growing up in Detroit, MI. where I experienced situations that most people I know didn’t make it out of… To be honest with you all I should be dead, however I took the qualities that I had and “ran with it” to put myself in a better situation.
These three meanings of running show the complexity of me… I hope I’m not going to deep on yall, I’m just trying to keep it real…
This best describes the current state of me… There is still progress to made in this journey…The name will never change only the meaning…2014 has a lot in store and this is only the beginning…Here’s to New Year!
What do you think of the redefining of 300 Pounds and Running?
Until next time…
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