My Knees, My Gut

I started running again a few weeks ago…against doctor's advice.   I was a runner for years and it's the only exercise I enjoy.   I had knee surgery in 2001 and was instructed that running wasn't "helpful" to the situation.   So I stopped; doctor's orders, right?  I was advised to find some other form of exercise that I enjoy that is better for my knees.   I knew that no such thing existed, but I gave it a shot anyway.  So I joined a gym and wouldn't go.   And I bought a bike that I wouldn't ride...except on occasion, but not often enough to be considered part of my exercise regimen.  In fact, once I stopped running, I didn't really have an exercise regimen.  I'd walk just about everywhere, but walking is slow and is really only a bare-minimun exercise, in my opinion.  It's supplemental, at best.


 I don't enjoy any exercise as much as I do running.   Said differently, I hate all exercise except running.   Plus my other (unoperated on) knee hurts anyway.   It hurt all those years when I wasn't running, so what's the difference?  

But what really got me to lace up my running shoes again was my gut.  Not the gut that = intuition.   The gut that was threatening to hang over the waistline of my jeans.   I'm not having that.   I know that the mid-section of women-of-a-certain age tends to plump up as the body goes through hormonal changes.   I already know that.   But I don't like it.   I've never really had a gut before and I'm not interested in making friends with one now.


I'm accepting of many bodily changes related to aging.  I'm okay with my softer thighs, that funny crinkly skin on my underarms, the cellulite on my butt, my not-as-perky boobs.  But the gut thing pisses me off.  I'm drawing the line there.   So I'm hitting the road with my running shoes, iPod, and knee brace.  


If you hear about me in the hospital for a knee operation, just send me some flowers and leave out the "they told you so" lecture.  My knee might be a mess, but my waistline will be intact...like it's supposed to be.






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