Marathons are long and hard things to do.  They take time to prepare for, and frankly you aren’t going to do it overnight.  There are some people who choose to instead run a half marathon, which can be a good thing to do or it can be a building block in your process toward actually running a full marathon.  Either way, if you can pull off a full marathon, you are quite accomplished to say the least fitness wise anyway. 

Keep in mind at all times that most of them are for charity.  You aren’t competing, and frankly if the man that won ran it in 2 hours flat, that doesn’t mean that you have to run that fast.  Just finishing it is an amazing thing.  Now, preparing for a marathon in general will help you to run farther, longer, get cardio in general, and that’s a good thing.  You can increase your speed, length, and otherwise over time.  But just remember in so many ways that you have to do it at your own pace. 

Maybe you only increase your distance by 1/10 of a mile per week, maybe you get an extra ½ a mile each week.  It depends on the person, and you should never overdo it, because then you will just do more damage than good.  But all in all, it’s important to remember that you are doing a good thing for yourself any way you look at it.

I know that legs are genetic, mostly calves are genetic.  But it still amazes me sometimes how it works.  I mean my calves grow and shrink with my weight.  Granted, they never get really small, not nearly as small as I wish they would.  At their smallest, they just seem to get more muscular or something or more defined rather.  But there are some who they get really big even, or it’s more common in men to have a heavy top half due to muscles, and then they have these little tiny chicken legs. 

Mariah Carey is kinda like that.  She ensured her legs, because however big she gets, those legs stay about the same.  It’s rather ridiculous really.  But my grandma is that way, too bad I didn’t get those genes.  She used to be really petite, still is about 5’0 if even that tall.  But in her older age, she gained a lot of weight, but for whatever reason her legs just stayed absolutely tiny.  I mean they’re small enough that at size 0 or less, they would look great.  They don’t actually ever shrink or grow either. 

That’s the part that really gets to me.  When she’s smaller, they look proportionate, and when she gets bigger, they just stay that same exact size.  How she manages it is still beyond me.  I mean my great grandma was just skinny in general.  But honestly, I wish my legs would work like that.

If you want to lose weight, though it’s not so likely to happen, you want it to be easy.  For example, you actually want to find an exercise you like.  It seems like if it’s too fun, it couldn’t be burning as many calories.  But if you can’t stand it, you aren’t going to keep doing it, even if it’s the ultimate fat or calorie burner in general. 

Second, balance out the mind-body-spirit connection.  When it’s in balance, you are less likely to overeat, overmedicate, and overindulge in general terms. 

Third, put out a few more calories and a little bit more effort when you are doing your household chores.  You are doing it anyway.  So realistically speaking, you might as well put out more exertion and lose weight doing it. 

Fourth, don’t keep junk food in the house.  It’s partly so tempting, because you see it every day.  You have it in your reach and in your house, and so it’s extremely tempting.  However, if it’s not there at all in the first place, you are less likely to bother with it.  You are far less likely to fall victim to it.  Don’t even use the lean cuisine meals and otherwise meals that give you the same old junk food you like supposedly with fewer calories.  Instead, look into fruits and vegetables among other things.  These will actually help you to see greater results.  These are simple ways to make it easy.

The most extreme diet I’ve ever heard of is of course that of an eating disorder.  But some of those diets out there I would swear are equal to an eating disorder in so many ways.  For example, I know of one that actually requires you to eat nothing but protein shakes and eggs, that’s it.  You can eat until you are full, but seriously?  You really can’t get effective results in the way you want.  To be sure, you will be losing weight, but you’ll gain it all back because it’s not sustainable, and it is by no means actually healthy, which presents a huge problem to say the least. 

Either way, it would be highly inadvisable to actually use this kind of diet.  I compare it to the Atkins diet in some ways.  But it’s even more unrealistic and unattainable to a larger degree in general terms.  It doesn’t give you the results you want to be quite sure, and it can do quite a bit of damage in various ways, especially in terms of the possible vitamin deficiencies and otherwise.  And frankly, you shouldn’t be replacing food sources with a multivitamin, let’s be completely honest, that’s a really bad sign.