Like many school teachers, Kristin Clinkenbeard loved her work teaching math to high school students. Unfortunately for the Oklahoma woman, teaching is stressful, and it started taking its toll on her around the time she turned 40. The first sign things were going downhill was weight gain, but her troubles were not just physical. Anxiety and depression were also wearing down her resilience.
克林肯布德（Clinkenbeard）的岳父于2010年因癌症去世，仅仅两年后，她也因疾病而失去了母亲。当她经历悲伤的过程时，她的焦虑和抑郁症对自己的健康造成了损失，她被诊断出患有高胆固醇和血压。
After making the decision to leave her job, she was able to reduce her stress by having more time to relax at home. The downside, however, was the several hours per day she once spent teaching were now sedentary, and though she was less anxious and depressed, she continued to gain weight. When she realized she fell solidly into the “overweight” category on the BMI chart and was constantly feeling tired, she went to her doctor, who didn’t like what he saw. He recommended medication for high cholesterol and warned of the possibility of blood pressure medicine, which Clinkenbeard says was the turning point. “At that moment, I decided to take control of my health. Good grief, I was in my early 40s!”
She didn’t have an immediate plan, but she thought she was much too young to begin cholesterol and blood pressure medication. “I asked my doctor if I could lower my cholesterol and blood pressure by changing my diet and my exercise habits,” she recalls. “He was not encouraging. Little did he know how stubborn I could be!”
显然，Clinkenbeard所需要的一切都是让某人告诉她她做不到。她说：“在六个月后的后续检查中，我减掉了20磅，将胆固醇从238降低到150年代，我的血压在健康的范围内。”“我的医生简直不敢相信！”
她的成功的秘诀之一 - 除了自己的本能渴望控制自己的生活之外，她发现了Myfitnesspal，她的姐姐向她介绍了她。她说：“当我母亲去世时，我开始研究如何为身体促进身体。”“ MyFitnessPal不仅给了我一种跟踪我正在吃的东西的方法，而且还有很多articles on how to eat healthfully以及如何运动。”
她承认，一开始，动机很容易，当时英镑轻松下降，她每天开始拥有更加一致的能量。有一次，她击中了最初的目标重量为155，但是，她撞到了墙，似乎再也无法减轻了磅。
那是她转向跑步的时候。
成为“真正的跑步者”
Clinkenbeard从来都不是跑步者，但是MapMyFitness, whose 5K training program she’d used to get started, helped her believe she could be. “I’m very goal-oriented and I love schedules, so that training plan was just what I needed to stay motivated,” she says. “That’s when I finally started to feel like I was a ‘real’ runner.”
Her first goal was to run a 5K without stopping. When she accomplished that, she attempted to get her time under 40 minutes, then under 36 minutes, then under 34 minutes. “I seemed to get stuck around 32–33 minutes,” she recalls. “But with the help of the MMF training plan, I finally hit my latest goal of under 30 minutes for a 5K.”
该应用程序建议的她最喜欢的挑战之一是You vs. the Year, a digital challenge within theMAPMYRUN应用程序。当她在2016年加入挑战赛时，她着手通过1,016公里来完成挑战，几乎没有期望她能实现目标。但是以真正的克里斯汀形式 - 坚持不懈地持续 - 她做到了Facebook组that supported her throughout the journey and still does to this day. Her 2018 goal is to log 1,018 km (about 632 miles) before midnight on December 31, 2018. “Barring any injury,” says Clinkenbeard, “I believe I will be able to hit that goal, too.”
LEARNING TO KEEP THINGS BALANCED
The other big factor she attributes her success to is a major overhaul in her diet, making a dramatic change in terms of her daily meals, but making sure she never became obsessive. She confesses she would never give up pizza — and why should she?
她说：“我已经从加工的'垃圾'食品转变为全食。”“我慢慢地做出了这种变化，专注于一次创造一个好习惯。现在，我拍摄80％的全食 - 毕竟，我必须吃披萨！”
Clinkenbeard还养成了习惯，使她的旅程更加容易坚持。“我了解到，如果我手头上没有垃圾食品，坚持我的计划要容易得多。如果它在我家，我将很想吃它。”她承认。我的目标是尝试每天吃四份蔬菜和两份水果。喝大量的水也可以使我充满。”
她依靠MyFitnessPal来帮助她跟踪营养，并且每天连续1,248天记录。她说：“该应用程序将其分解，因此我可以监测卡路里，以及碳水化合物，脂肪，蛋白质，钠和糖。”“对我来说，迈出的一步是在应用程序上'打开我的日记，以便我的朋友们实际上可以看我的食物摄入量。这使我更加负责。毕竟，当我可以选择烤鸡肉沙拉时，我真的不希望我的朋友看到我屈服于汉堡包和炸薯条。”
REALISTIC GOALS FOR THE FUTURE
但是，Clinkenbeard是第一个承认这并不是全部势头的人。她说：“有时候我的动力不是应该在哪里。”“我只需要强迫自己离开门。我告诉自己至少走一英里或进行较短的体重锻炼。通常，一旦我开始，我就可以通过。”这种态度导致了一种新的个人口头禅：我比我想象的要强大。
她目前的计划运行四天一个星期nd lifting weights two days a week. Her MMF training plan has her doing different run workouts to train for her first half marathon this year. “I do long, slow runs, easy runs, tempo runs and intervals,” she says. “Doing the different types of runs is not only good for me, but it also keeps it interesting.” Her strength training is a full-body plan that focuses on compound moves like squats, deadlifts, lunges, step-ups, pushups and core work. She tries to include one rest day per week to allow her body to recover and get stronger.
在Clinkenbeard的脑海中，她能够通过控制自己的健康来避免许多人随着年龄的增长，健康诊断的减少，更可怕的医学诊断所看到的常见问题。虽然她的总体体重减轻30磅可能听狗万体育买球万博彩票下载安卓起来并不引人注目，但Clinkenbeard表示，这是她全方位健康和幸福的关键。另外，她说她“感觉很棒”，这与她在2012年的感受相去甚远。
