My second goal for 2012, is to get rid of my Middle-Aged Man gut–I’ve basically become this character from Saturday Night Live, just without the fancy hair:
I have to admit, I’ve been “battling” the gut for a decade–I first realized it had appeared when we picked-up the pictures from my oldest daughter’s 1st birthday swimming party. (Note: this was back when people put a thing called “film” into a camera. After putting the pictures onto this “film”, the “film” had to be brought to a store that would take several days to copy the pictures from the “film” to the “pictures”. Normally, half of the “pictures” were of things you most definitely did not want “pictures” of–the back of someone’s head, your shoes, your thumb, or your aunt Midge.) Anyhow, when we got back this bunch of pictures, one of the pictures I did not want included me, my daughter and my gut. Since then, I’ve known about this unwanted passenger and made numerous half-hearted, short-lived attempts at getting rid of it.
I haven’t been successful:
See I Told You!
Now, I don’t have any secret methods that I am going to use, just try to use more calories that I consume and do some core work to try to tone what muscle I do have underneath. My main problem is I tend to pig out too often–I eat fairly healthy, just too much at times. I’m going to try to not binge and try to eat a fruit (banana/apple/orange) before digging into a “snack”. I’ve got a special weakness for Nacho-Cheese Doritos.
I’m hoping that just by knowing that I’m running 26.2 in 5 months, I’ll have the extra incentive to cut my gut (currently measuring 34 inches sucked in, 37.5 fully extended). I figure if I could probably lose 10-15 pounds of dead weight, possibly speeding me up 6-9%. Not sure if it works that way but that could be roughly 15 minutes of marathon time.
