In the beginning of February, softball tryouts had begun. (If you even so much as think about a lesbian joke I will come through this screen and slap you because not all softball players are lesbians and I am certainly not but we'll get to that.) Anyways, I knew that with softball comes running and I was in no way shape or form ready for that. Unfortunately, I am a young freshman (about to be softmore at 14 but turn 15 in August) in highschool and never realized the amount of running the coach likes to make us run. In the first day of tryouts I was running a little over 2 miles without sprints. HAHA FUN.
Well you see, after that first day of trouts I noticed my left foot hurting. I thought it was just a pulled muscle and continued on with tryouts the next day. That day, while running, I was hurting so bad that I was crying while I was running and the next night my mom took me to the doctor to x-rays because of the way I could not even walk on my foot without SERIOUS pain. It wasn't fractured so they treated it as a sprain and I could not participate in tryouts and didn't make the team. ):
Once my treatment was up for my injury i didn't workout for awhile. Then I said to myself "No, you know you wanna lose weight so just, do it. Workout. You tried this last year and stopped but you've got more motivation now. "
With that, I decided I would start running on my elliptical. After a few weeks of eating right and working out ATLEAST 5 times a week I came to the conclusion that I would start running on pavement. Well with that came the foot pains again. My family and I had learned about stress fractures and thought I had one seeing as you can not see them on regular x-Ray machines, you have to have an MRI, I decided to wait it out. For a few weeks I was running and the pain was only increasing. One night, my foot got swollen turned purple and hurt so bad that my mom decided it was time to go to the doctor again. The next day she took me and he ordered for another X-Ray. No fracture, again. I still do not know what has happened to my foot but have been told it's probably a good idea to lay off running on the pavement for awhile.
So that leads me to the past few weeks, I have been getting off my rocker with eating healthy and working out. I want to get out of the hole I've been stuck in for years now. I mean I've always been overweight but, I'm 5'7 at my heaviest I was 210 pounds. But, when I started working out this year, I was 202. I'm happy to say that I've been losing about 2 pounds a week in the past month and have lost 6 pounds. My current weight is 196. I want to continue with this and stay motivated.
