Lee Anne Barnes weighed 297 lbs. in 2007. Now 160 lbs. lighter, she is preparing to run the 2023 New York City Marathon. She has also helped organize a race for the kids in her hometown of Tupelo, Miss.
Lee Anne Barnes weighed 297 lbs. before she discovered running — now she's completed 37 half-marathons — and even helped organize a hometown race for kidsEmily Palmer is a Senior Crime Writer at PEOPLE, where she has been a reporter since 2023. Her work has frequently appeared in The New York Times and Cosmopolitan Magazine.A few years after her overweight father died of a heart attack at 64, Lee Anne Barnes — a single mom of 2 weighing nearly 300 lbs. — tossed out her deep-fryer.
That's when she started her mailbox walks. She also committed to planning out her meals a week in advance so she never had an excuse to hit the drive-thru.in 2018, her progress slowed — along with her motivation. She stopped running, and her weight crept back up to 235 lbs.. “It’s a very good tool to have,” Barnes said of the operation. But she clarifies: “The surgery is not an easy way out.” Following the operation, she had to change her fueling habits for long runs.
Barnes had entered the lottery for the New York City marathon eight times in 12 years. "Every year I held out hope that this year would be the year." But she never got in. Mile 22 will go to her coworkers across the Tupelo Public School District. Mile 23 to the memory of her parents. Mile 24 to her husband, Os. Mile 25 for her children. “And Mile 26 – and the point-2 – will be a celebration of me,” she tells PEOPLE. “My journey to health, and the tremendous gift I have been given: to run.
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