A Great Morning (and Weigh-In!)
FINALLY! After weeks and weeks of gaining like it is going out of style, I had a good weigh-in this morning. All week I kept my food diary, tracked my calories, and made my workouts priority. It paid off with a 4.5 pound loss this week!This morning I went running, expecting about a 10 minute jog and finishing off with walking since I have been so far off the wagon for weeks. But when I hit a mile, I decided to keep going. And going.
There was a tall, slender, athletic-looking woman running at the track too, and as she passed me, I thought to myself that I aspired to be like that again, effortlessly running, in shape, fit and strong. Well, just as I had decided, tired, cranky, sore legs, that when I finished that lap, I was done, this woman stood at the side of the track, flashed me a thumbs-up, and yelled, “Go for it!”
Instead of quitting, I ran at least 3 more laps, for a total run of 41 minutes. She had left by the time I finished and was walking to cool down, but I am grateful for her encouragement and her motivation. It pushed me to run longer than I would have without her simple 3 words to spur me on.
All morning I kept thinking “I can’t believe I ran 41 minutes!” I’m not as far away from being in shape again as I thought I was. It felt great to be running again, and I loved logging my run on my workout chart when I was done.
Here’s to another great week! 
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waahoo way to go girlie.. 41 minutes is awesome. And then to loose over 4 pounds just makes me so happy for ya.
I ran today too so yeah for the both of us
Running is so painful to get started but so awesome but you can get into it!
Kick butt! That is cool and nice of that lady. We’re all in this together
congrats on your loss!!!
That is great! Well done! Nice to see it pay off!!
Yeah!! Congrats on that awesome loss! I LOVE my food/exercise journal. It is one I bought that has tons of cool stuff in it. Kudos to that lady because she really did you a favor, probably without even knowing it! I’m proud of you!
You know MJ - I’M SOOOOOOOOOOOO HAPPY TO HEAR THIS!!
You and Blaithin were the two people who convinced me to run! I’m so glad to see you back at it!
HAPPY FOURTH BABE!
Great job on the running. It’s funny how a little encouragement pushes us to be better. Keep up the great work.
HAPPY DANCE MJ!!!!
So happy to hear about the weight lose and the running…VERY inspiring my friend!! Keep going for it MJ…you WILL succeed!
Whoa!!! Go you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great job, MJ!!! Awesome! I love that that lady motivated you to keep going!! Whoohooo!!!
MJ ! This is AWESOME ! Great Job on the loss and on the awesome run
How GREAT the other runner was cheering u on ~~~