300 pounds and Running podcast Letter to Race Directors

This is part 1 of a 2 part podcast series with 30 Pounds and Running on this viral letter to Race Directors. Check out RunEatRepeat.com for pics of Martinus Evans, his favorite gear & shoes. And I’m challenging you to see things from another point of view. Follow @RunEatRepeat on Instagram so you don’t miss a thing!

Today I’m talking to Martinus Evans from 300 Pounds and Running and we’re doing something different – this is part 1 of 2 episodes.

We’re splitting it because we were set to talk about his recent article that went viral – AN OPEN LETTER TO RACE DIRECTORS FROM THE BACK OF THE PACK.

But we started by talking about how he found running, weight loss and setbacks after his first marathon… And I think his running journey is really important.

Running is hard.

Weight loss is hard.

And he’s had set backs – but kept going. It’s super important for us to remember –  keep going with whatever set backs we face.

There will be setbacks. Success is determined by how you handle set backs.

New here? I’m Monica Olivas – and I created RunEatRepeat.com to document training for my first full marathon and weight loss journey. While I was sharing my life the site grew an amazing community of runners, eaters and virtual friends all over the world and now it’s this podcast!

Check out Run Eat Repeat.com for more and follow @RunEatRepeat on Instagram for more.

Podcast warm up:

I listened to a Ted Radio Hour podcast a while back that stuck with me. I think it was about how we’re all different and how hard it is to see things from someone else’s point of view. And a college professor…

Imagine if all day today (or tomorrow if it’s late) you tried to see everything from someone else’s view?

Every interaction you have today – put yourself in the other person’s shoes and listen carefully. Then, put yourself in their position and try to feel how they feel… see it exactly how they see it – NOT how they should see it.

Try to understand them – not judge them. Understand –how they see you, how they see the world, how they much feel… before you respond.

We’re all just doing our best. And when someone is doing something that you think is wrong, or weird, or unhealthy or whatever… there is a reason why. It’s really hard to be friends with someone or help them if you’re busy judging them.

So today I challenge you to slow down and observe with a super open heart – who the people around you truly are.

And part of me is saying this because that talk really stuck with me and I think it’s important. But also – I realized that I identify with Martinus. I feel like I’m like him. I get it. I feel overweight – or like I’ll always identify as chubby (see my post on why I’ll always think I’m fat). And I like that. I like that I feel like I connect with certain people because we’re the same on this deep level of how we experienced parts of life.

And it made me sad to think people are mean because they don’t get it and don’t identify with us.

Then, I realized that … it’s easy for me to be compassionate towards someone I identify with. The real challenge would be to try and understand someone I disagree with or have nothing in common with.

With that – I encourage you to be open minded and open hearted today. Let’s get to the interview…

Martinus Evans is the founder and voice behind the blog and podcast 300 Pounds and Running. It’s been featured in Runner’s World, Self.com, Live Strong, Shape Magazine and more.

He started running in 2012 after his doctor called him fat and laughed when he said he was going to run a marathon.

Since then he’s run over 30 races and has been an inspiration for larger runners worldwide.

Lately, he has been the talk of the running community with his recently published article: AN OPEN LETTER TO RACE DIRECTORS FROM THE BACK OF THE PACK – we’re getting into that next time!

Martinus Evans from 300 Pounds and Running Podcast

Decided to run a marathon after a doctor told him he was overweight. He started with a couch to 5k training plan. And he built up his fitness and eventually ran a 10K, half marathon and a full marathon.

Then, he got into 2 big car accidents and couldn’t run for a year. He gained all the weight back and had to start all over again.

And now he’s back! After being benched for a year, then an injury… he was determined to get back to the runner he knew he was.

He just ran the NYC Marathon!

We’re talking about his journey from a scary doctor’s visit to running a full marathon and losing the weight, gaining it back and how he got back better than before!

He recently wrote a blog post called “Re: AN OPEN LETTER TO RACE DIRECTORS FROM THE BACK OF THE PACK” –

that went viral because of it’s in-your-face tone and because it resonated with so many runners. I wanted to give him a chance to share his point of view on how back of the pack runners are treated at races and by some other runners. But – we ended up talking about running and weight loss to start and it runs kinda long so this is going to be a 2 part series.

Today it’s about his story of becoming a runner, losing weight, having major setbacks and eventually getting back to the sport.

Next time we’ll talk about his open letter blog post. There’s just so much!

On starting running and weight loss: 

Going from Couch to 5K to Couch to 10K to eventually running a marathon.  – He used various apps to find the best training plan for his needs.

Tips for new runners – and the things he had to figure out for himself.

10K to half marathon and eventually a full marathon.

Why running a marathon isn’t a good way to lose weight. We both share how we gained weight while marathon training.

Post-race blues after his first marathon.

What stopped him from running for over a year.

Why weight loss isn’t his focus now.

RER: How much weight did you lose when you ran the full marathon?

Evans: … lost about 80 to 90 pounds…

RER: I’ve found running a full marathon isn’t super helpful to weight loss. Was that your experience?

Evans: … Most of his weight loss came during training for the 5K and 10K runs.

300 Pounds and Running Favorites: :

> Favorite race / distance to run? half marathon

> What are your favorite running shoes?

 HOKA ONE Clifton 5  

And he used to wear Brooks Glycerin

> Must Have Running Gear?

Osprey Race Pack

Slow AF shirt tech tees up to 4 XL – https://300poundsandrunning.com/shop/

> What did you listen to on your last run / workout?

90s hip hop – itunes playlist southern hip hop essentials – hip hop workout – running podcasts – serial podcast

> What’s your favorite post-run / post- race victory lap?

Carrot Cake.

Follow him on this site and social media here:

Blog: http://www.300poundsandrunning.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/300poundsandrunning
Twitter: http://twitter.com/300lbsandrunnin
Instagram: http://instagram.com/300poundsandrunning/

Thank you for listening!

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Have a great one!

 

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Stomach pains?

I’m a 5’6, 23 y/o woman, currently around 162lbs. I try to listen to my body and eat when it’s hungry, not when I/my brain wants to eat. Within the last year, my progress has stagnated. To be honest, that may be due to mental health issues and lack of motivation (which I am owning up to), but I’m worried there might be something else going on.

Today I realized that I may misinterpreting signals from my stomach. I’m eating when I think I’m hungry (stomach pains), but maybe my stomach is acidic instead. I’m not feeling any burning in my chest, burping up acid, or having any coughing - it’s not like heartburn that I’ve had before, it’s a burning sensation in my upper stomach area. Pepto helps sometimes, but it also kind of makes me want to throw up. Drinking milk or eating bread doesn’t always help either, which I thought would help if it was heartburn.

I haven’t been able to find out any particular trigger foods and it seems to just come and go randomly. Because of my work schedule right now, I’m relying a little heavier on Lean Cuisine-type meals instead of homemade meals. When I was meal prepping I still had this, though.

I have been diagnosed with IBS with constipation a few years ago, but am not taking medicine for it. I had a physical last month and all of my blood tests (thyroid, cholesterol, liver, etc) came back with great results.

I feel like I would be able to continue my weight loss more successfully if I didn’t eat to fix the discomfort. Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do to keep this from happening, or how to at least treat it?

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[Daily Directory] Find your quests for the day here! - Saturday, 10 November 2018

Welcome adventurer! Whether you're new on this quest or are towards the end of your journey there should be something below for you.

Daily journal.

• [Q&A] "I have a question."
• [Day 1] "I am starting my weight loss journey."
• [SV/NSV] "I have an accomplishment to share."
• [24hr Pledge] "Today I am going to..."

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• [Motivation Monday] Share some motivation, get some motivation.
• [Tantrum Tuesday] Need to vent? People getting on your nerves?
• [Weigh-In Wednesday]
• [Track with Me Thursday] Did we just become best friends?!
• [Free Talk Friday] What's on your mind?

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• [Running with Loseit] Run with losers. Avoid arrows.
• [Wecipe Wednesday] Swap and discuss recipies!

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Getting healthy is as much for my mental health as it is for my physical health

While I'm not diagnosed with anything as of this post, I have had dark moments and thoughts due to a lot of self-innflicted low confidence, and this spiraled into weight gain during my University years up until last year. I had no motivation to work on myself because I didn't feel like I deserved the care, and my wardrobe growing tighter had me reaching for greasy snacks that wouldn't help the problem I didn't want to face. Even when I tried dieting myself with cico and the like, I ended up miserable - it wasn't for me.

Fast forward to April, where I got really fed up with 2 of my favourite pants tearing at the hips. I was at work and completely embarrassed and frustrated with myself. I even measured my body fat percentage band it floored me how far I had let myself go. I had to change something, and fast. I turned that frustration on myself and my bad habits.

If I felt myself reaching for chips, I'd down a bottle of water to fill myself. If I craved a big mac, I'd think about that wireless charger I was saving up for and turn around. If I had some crappy customers at work, I'd strap on the boxing gloves at the gym. If my thoughts turned dark and I felt like I didn't want to live, I'd run until my lungs burned for air again.

A big part of this was working with a personal trainer at my gym. Yes they're expensive, but I was at a point where I was spiraling and I lucked out with my trainer because she cares about my mental health (we talked a lot, she's been a great confidant). I'm not at 100% worth my mental health, but I'm never at 0 anymore. My weight loss has not been huge (30 pounds since I started) but my lifestyle has improved. I've put hard work into myself, and have started to care about myself more.

I have days where I love my long legs, and other days hate my thunder thighs, my perspective on my body will flip flop but I will never make my body pay the price for a brief respite. Like my muscles, my confidence was broken so that I could build it back up even stronger.

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30 pounds down... SW: 195 G1W:175 G2W: 165 CW: 164.6

Starting in the beginning of August:

Starting Weight: 195 Pounds

Height: 5'2 Age: 36

First goal: 10% of my weight, so about 20 pounds to 175 pounds.

Second goal (set by a different doctor): 165 pounds.

Triglycerides and liver numbers were high and very outside of normal ranges; these were the main reasons for the need to lose weight. Because of the various numbers, and having a family history of liver issues, my gastro doctor referred me to the hospital’s medical weight loss clinic.

This has been the most difficult thing I have done, but I do feel it has been worth it. The clinic started me on 1500-1800 calories a day diet, with moderate protein and lower carb. After losing 9 pounds, they changed the diet around, and this was the hardest part of adjust to. I’ve had digestive issues since I was born and as a result, eating is my least favorite thing to do. I can’t eat certain things. I have to maintain a low fat and clean cooking method diet due to my condition, so most of my intake was carbs. The new change had me limit my carb intake to 160g and my protein intake to 120g. Eventually, after getting used to it, I continued to lose weight. I feel mentally this was the biggest hurdle I had to overcome.

After losing more weight, they changed the diet again. This time 1400 calories per day, with 40% carb, 30% protein. When this change came into play, I found it was much harder to keep to the percentages and the calorie in take at the same time. Asking the clinic nutritionists didn’t provide me good insight as to what to do. So I made an executive decision. I adjusted my diet to stay at 1400 calories, but adjusted the carb level to 45% and protein to 35% (the closest %'s to the 160g carbs, 120g protein). With the new %’s, I was closer able to hit 1400 calories, and I was able to continue to lose weight. Prior to the % change on the 1400 calories, I had plateaued.

Throughout this process, I was not alone; my fiancee helped. She helped with preparing lower carb meals, meal prepping in general (going out for food has always been an adventure), or listing out any ingredients and their upc codes so I could save them into myfitnesspal/loseit apps. Her help allowed the various transitions throughout the diet to be easier on me. I am extremely grateful to her for the help and she is well aware of it.

Somewhere between the first and second goal, I retook the test to check triglycerides and liver numbers, and those numbers dropped more than half and fully returned to normal levels.

As of today, I surpassed my second goal weight. It’s not the end though. I need to maintain a healthy weight. I don’t want those numbers don’t go back up. there are some other personal health goals I want to achieve. Long term, I plan on achieving them.

Thanks for reading,

-B

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Photos: time comparison photos

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X/post from ask_relationship_advice: How do I support my morbidly obese friend in her weight loss journey?

I have a good friend (39F) who has been morbidly obese since high school (I've only known her in the last 7 years). I've never commented on her weight to anyone other than my husband because I figured she already knew she was overweight and doesn't need people pointing that out to her.

Recently, she broke down in tears and confided in me that she was the highest weight she'd ever been. She also told me she's started going back to the gym and doing weight watchers with a friend from work. She was clearly distressed about it, and I've never seen her cry before, so I felt privileged that she trusted me enough to open up about it.

I'd like to support her on her weight loss journey, but I also don't want to patronize her. I know how difficult it is who lose weight when you're morbidly obese. I have several relatives who have done the whole song and dance of losing 75 pounds and then gaining it back again and then losing it again. It's such a vicious cycle to break when you're that overweight.

Plus, although my husband and I aren't exactly the most svelt of people, our weight problems fall squarely into the vanity category. I feel as though it would be disingenuous to talk about my own weight issues and trying to lose the extra 15lbs of pregnancy weight I'm holding onto 4 months post partum when she's got a completely different battle to fight.

What are some ways that I can encourage her and support her along her journey? I want her to succeed but I also don't want to put pressure on her either if she fails or doesn't meet her own expectations. I'm her friend, not her doctor or nutritionist or physical trainer.

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My father seems to think my weight loss is his accomplishment... and I hate it...

I have lost a bunch of weight since July and my father keeps telling me, that he had told me to stop overeating earlier this year. And it's really bothering me. It feels like he either thinks that he was right and me being happier and healthier is a confirmation of that or that it's even something he had a positive influence on.

The truth is as long as I know him he has been gaining and losing constantly 20kg, my whole life he was overeating and than reducing in quite unhealthy ways. He starved, he took appetite suppressants, he even wanted me to take those. It wasn't a good relationship between us my whole childhood. My parents are divorced and I was happy about it. I would consider him more a root cause for my unhealthy relationship with food than anything else. My sister is obese, too. When he told me that I shouldn't eat so much we were visiting him and if we are honest he was just upset that I took the last dish because he wanted it. It was so ridiculous. He eats at least 4 or 5 pieces of cake whenever we visit.

I don't like that he thinks that he is right in any way or has accomplished anything. It's my battle, I am the one fighting it - despise my upbringing, despite him, not because of him.

He now wants to "educate" my sister. I told him that, even though I'm worried about her, too, he has no saying in her lifestyle anymore and that it will if anything make her more hesitant to change something. As we all know the motivation has to come from within and that just isn't the case with her. And I'm quite sure it will hurt her if he talks to her as it hurt me when he did.

Does that make any sense?

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