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So on my journey to doing the 50 things in a lifetime. I hit a few snags funny enough. My first challenge was to buy stranger(s) a meal or drinks on me. Crazy enough, my anxiety kicked into overdrive and I had trouble trying to talk people into letting me buy their meal. Or maybe it was my stinginess that I was mistaking for anxiety. 😀
I went to a few locations to achieve my task and funny enough there were limited people in the restaurants or they looked at me blankly and turned down my offer. Perhaps my approach was wrong?? Or perhaps they thought I was crazy and needed some meds. Whichever it was I finally decided to do the Chick-fil-A thing, pay for the person behind me and move on to the next task.
I had a few good meals though on my way to Chick-fil-A.
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Until next time 😀
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Hi, I am Kristi, I'm a mother, wife, full time job holder and a runner. My story with running and exercise starts in 2008 when a friend convinced me to go running as a means to lose a few pesky pounds. I did and I hated every minute of it but I stuck with it and started seeing some change in my appearance. Slowly my love-hate relationship with running became something I treasured and actually looked foward too.
Soon after I met my sweet husband and a few years later I was pregnant. My journey with running had continued and grown and even ventured out into other facets of excersie. I was determined to stay active and healthy in my pregnancy and took all the necessary precautions to make this possible. I ate lean meats, excersied everyday, continued to run until I was in my second trimester (it became uncomfortable for me) and gained only the recommended 30 pounds. However as life does occasionally she threw me a curve ball. In my last trimester I had problems with blood pressure and subsequently was bed ridden and hospitalized for the remainder of my pregnancy. My sweet love was born healthy and happy and is a very much okay today.
My world was on a whirlwind disaster coaster for over two years and in the midst of my choas I gained an additional 20 pounds, struggled with my postpartum depression, and almost lost my sweet family.
Luckily for me I began to get a grip on my fading sanity and started turning my tumultuous life right side up. I have slowly began becoming the person I was in 2008 and loving my life once again.
This is my journey to a fit life and lifestyle. My rode to running again and hopefully we be of some help for others struggling.
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Good job Kristi Mac! This has happened to me a few times in my life … where people have purchased my meal. The first time that I can remember right now was when I was going through my terrible divorce. A sweet family that had adopted three Russian kids of their own, and knew that I was going through an extremely hard time, had given me a gift certificate to what I called a “fancy” restaurant. (As you know I’m a little picky when it comes to eating certain kinds of foods and don’t usually visit ‘fancy” places for fear that I may not be able to find anything that I will eat. Lol … so that’s why I was at this particular restaurant. I can’t remember the name of the place.). Anyway … my kids and I had sat down and I was trying to review the menu and figure out what we could all order and leave a tip and stay within the amount of money that was on the gift card because I didn’t have any extra money. I had been crying all that day and trying to put on a good front for my not so little babies, but once again the tears just started flowing while trying to figure this all out. I tried to wipe them as soon as they came out so that my kiddos wouldn’t notice … and I don’t think they did, but … apparently the table of 4 (a husband, wife and 2 small children, I think) that was sitting close by did notice something about us that evening. I remember making eye contact with them only once that evening. I smiled at them and they smiled back. I just remember being an emotional wreck that night and even thinking about it now makes me cry. Anyway … we ate our meal, and enjoyed it as much as we could, then I asked the server for the bill. That’s when she told me that the sweet people at that table had paid for our meal … and left the tip. Then I cried again! It was so, so sweet and so, so appreciated but I only wish that I had noticed what was going on and could have told them thanks and could have given them a hug. It meant way more to me than I’m sure they ever knew. I didn’t even see them get up and leave. But you know, to me it was a God thing. He knew what we needed and He used those people to deliver it. I am thankful for people like you Kristi Mac! I am sure that your act of kindness meant way more to the folks that received it than you know!! And the first 2 people that you tried to deliver your act of kindness to … wasn’t the ones who really needed it after all. Good Job Kristi Mac! I’m proud of you!! Love you sweet girl. 😘😘😘
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