It was January 7, 2006 – my 40th birthday – that I decided I needed to get into shape.\u00c2\u00a0 I was 255 pounds, 33.5% body fat, taking handfuls of medication, and getting steadily worse.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m now 219 pounds, 19.5% body fat, taking 3 medications (and insane handfuls of supplements like faxseed oil, Co-Q10, etc), and can do things I couldn’t do since high school.\u00c2\u00a0 No – not THAT.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve always been able to do THAT.<\/p>\n
The one thing I haven’t done in a long time is run a real race.\u00c2\u00a0 I ran a few 10k’s with my buddy Lewis WAY back then, but not since.\u00c2\u00a0 Not even an option really.\u00c2\u00a0 So in time for my two year anniversary, I’m going to run a 5k, and try and finish respectably in my age division.\u00c2\u00a0 Still looking for the right race, but it will need to be in December sometime.\u00c2\u00a0 5k is only 3.1 miles – but believe me – that will still be a chore for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It was January 7, 2006 – my 40th birthday – that I decided I needed to get into shape.\u00c2\u00a0 I was 255 pounds, 33.5% body fat, taking handfuls of medication, and getting steadily worse.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m now 219 pounds, 19.5% body fat, taking 3 medications (and insane handfuls of supplements like faxseed oil, Co-Q10, etc), and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}