avondale
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I hear you on the perimenopausal weight and changes... for me, big changes in that sense coincided with the year after the pandemic started, when social things were still really restricted and a lot of work from home (so not as much motion). I don't have the "having babies" excuse, either. I'm still working on it, so I have no secret suggestions. Also, I have a gag reflex to the taste of most vegetables, which doesn't help, LOL.
It's definitely a lot harder when you have to set an example. When I was a tween and teenager, I tended toward the chubby side of things naturally because my mother had no idea what healthy eating was really like (in
order to cook that way), my father had very specific ideas of meals (must have meat and potato at every meal), and my father's genetics tend toward obesity - I have those genetics, mostly. At my age, of course, I wanted to be thin. I found a small (laughably small by today's standards) listing of calories in various servings of food and used that as a bible to calorie count my entire way through high school. I ate maybe 1200 cal/day (using the listing). My mother made no attempt to discourage me from doing that (my father was completely oblivious - he was a jerk, honestly). To this day (I'm 52!), I cannot look at any food without mentally estimating the calories and what it's going to "do" to me. Recently, I asked my mother why she ever let me calorie count like that, and thus develop such a bad relationship with food, and she said, "I never thought you'd stick to it like that!" Well, that's my personality. So.....long story to say that, yes, your example and guidance to your kids is really important.
Sounds like a good plan for you to take some time off from running and give yourself time to figure out what you want to do next.
It's definitely a lot harder when you have to set an example. When I was a tween and teenager, I tended toward the chubby side of things naturally because my mother had no idea what healthy eating was really like (in
order to cook that way), my father had very specific ideas of meals (must have meat and potato at every meal), and my father's genetics tend toward obesity - I have those genetics, mostly. At my age, of course, I wanted to be thin. I found a small (laughably small by today's standards) listing of calories in various servings of food and used that as a bible to calorie count my entire way through high school. I ate maybe 1200 cal/day (using the listing). My mother made no attempt to discourage me from doing that (my father was completely oblivious - he was a jerk, honestly). To this day (I'm 52!), I cannot look at any food without mentally estimating the calories and what it's going to "do" to me. Recently, I asked my mother why she ever let me calorie count like that, and thus develop such a bad relationship with food, and she said, "I never thought you'd stick to it like that!" Well, that's my personality. So.....long story to say that, yes, your example and guidance to your kids is really important.
Sounds like a good plan for you to take some time off from running and give yourself time to figure out what you want to do next.
