One day in March, I just woke up tired of being fat. I was tired of feeling like my weight defined my whole existence. I wanted to play with my children and to be the kind of mother of whom they could be proud. I convinced my husband that our family could stand to get a little healthier and just like that it began.
I threw myself into discovering better ways to eat. I got all of the sugar and junk food out of the house and replaced them with fresh fruits and vegetables. For the first time in my life, I started to exercise every day. At first it was absolute torture. I kept the phone right by me just in case I had a heart attack on my stationary bike. Amazingly, just like it is supposed to, the weight started to come off.
The change spread through my whole family. My husband, who hadn’t cycled in years, bought a new road bike and soon convinced me to join him. By June, he had signed me up to do a twenty-two-mile charity ride with him.
Later that month, I completed a sixty-eight-mile ride in a little less than five hours. Before the ride, however, besides the cold weather, I wasn’t feeling well and had not eaten properly for such an effort. I told myself I wasn’t about to give up so easily. Ten miles in, I started sucking wind. Fifteen miles and my legs felt like they were made of lead. By twenty miles, my lungs were burning. That’s when I turned around and saw my three children cheering me on in the van behind me. My eight-year-old daughter Emalee shouted “Come on, Mom. We are proud of you.” I knew then that I couldn’t quit. I tell my children all the time that just because something is hard doesn’t mean that you stop doing it.
注意：1. 续写词数应为150左右；2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。The importance of that ride was apparent after only a week.
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