Hello and welcome to the Chris Terrell podcast.

I am Chris Terrell.

The first mile is the hardest of all the miles.

I mentioned it in other social media that I'm training for a tough mutter,

which is something that two years ago,

I would have never thought I could be doing by now.

A year ago, I thought, well, maybe I'll get into running. And I started running. You know,

the pandemic had shut down all the gyms. And I, uh, that was a mistake. I started running way too

soon. And I messed up my Achilles. And, uh, well, not messed up my Achilles, but discovered I have a bone spur behind my Achilles,

which caused my Achilles getting inflamed and caused it to be where I could actually there for a while there,

I could barely walk. It got pretty bad. Doctor looked at me and said, running may not be your thing.

And so I had to stop. The problem was I started running too soon. And it's not even that I started running too soon, it's just started running too much too quickly. I wasn't ready for that much running. I had too much weight on my body still. It wasn't in that good of a shape. And when I felt the pain, I just kept saying, no pain, no gain. And so I kept running. I kept pushing. I kept going, you know, you just can't quit. You can't give up. But I was being reckless about it. And this led to a point where I had to stop running, which is a shame because I was just starting to see some progress. I was just starting to be able to run a little bit further. And I was even starting to like it a little bit. It was still pretty tough. I can't say I enjoyed it a ton. But I had to stop. Why am I sharing this with you? Is it because I'm sitting here going to make this the running podcast? No, no, I'm not. I'm someone that likes to draw parallels and likes to

take lessons from one part of life and see how I can apply it to another. Because I think there's

lessons all around us. I think there's so many things that we can learn in this life from so many

people, from so many other people's experiences. Some lessons, we insist on learning the hard way. Sometimes, no matter how much someone will tell us, don't do it this way, don't do it this way. If you do it this way, it's not going to work. Sometimes we're boneheaded, and we want to learn that lesson by doing it ourselves and going, hmm, yeah, they were right. Yep, can't do it the way. Yep, they were right. So how many times have you heard that the best way to lose weight is to do it slowly over time

and you need to make lifestyle changes?

I'm willing to bet if you're listening to this podcast.

You've heard that a lot.

You've definitely heard it for me a lot.

And you've probably heard it from a lot of other people.

I was a bonehead. I spent all of my 20s and the early part of my 30s doing it the way everybody else told me not to. Oh, I know better. I know they're wrong. Yeah, I know everybody else should lose it slowly. I know everybody else should make lifestyle changes, but not me.

I'm just going to drop the weight, and then I'll figure it out. You know, I'm going to hop on this diet that's just going to drop it all. And when I get to my goal weight, I magically just going to be better and I won't gain the weight back. Even though I've gained the weight back all the other times, this is what I tell myself, sometimes consciously, sometimes subconsciously, more often than not subconsciously, but I didn't want to listen to what everybody else was saying.

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