Running Full – slow 6 mile run
It’s Saturday morning. I’ve been stuffing myself since Thanksgiving morning. Don’t we all tend to nibble while we cook? How else will you know it’s good?
For some reason on Thanksgiving we just tend to each too much.
There are more dishes than usual and the portions just seem to be larger than normal.
Then there are the leftovers.
This year I had tons of turkey and 2 casserole dishes of stuffing left uneaten. So what was I to do but load up for Friday lunch with a super size serving of turkey and stuffing. Yum, I love my stuffing. Then I went to the movies all afternoon with a friend. The turkey and stuffing just sat in my belly.
That night I had a late dinner of, you guessed it, turkey and stuffing along with some wine and a few tortilla chips and then, yikes, some chocolate cake! (I never eat cake…what’s happening to me!)
I woke up in the morning, still feeling full. It was about time to get out and go for a run.
I hadn’t run all week. I swam about a mile both Monday and Tuesday and played water polo Wednesday so it’s not that I’ve been inactive, but I haven’t run for a week, so I had to get out and run.
As I started out I could feel the extra bowling ball in my stomach. As I ran I remembered a Discovery Health show about obese people. They showed a sonogram of an obese persons intestines. You could actually see the undigested food clogging up the intestines.
I’m sure we all know the sure fire method to gain weight is to constantly pack in large amounts of food and just sit around between meals. That undigested food sits in your intestines getting compacted with the next meal being forced in on top of the last meal before the first one and in between snack can be processed.
This procedure seems to be a very easy one for people to follow, just look at the obesity rate in America today.
I’ve found that one of the best ways to get your body moving, so to speak, is to “get moving”! The movement of the body while running or riding a bike moves the intestines around and helps in the digestive process.
Then all you need to do is skip the next meal and the in between snack and you’ll be on your way to Thanksgiving recovery!
My six mile run was a slow one this morning. I had all the extra weight to carry around, but I know I’ll be feeling better soon. I think I’ll invite friends over to help finish off the rest of the leftovers!
Turkey sandwich anyone?
