Friend Makin Monday!

I completely forgot it was Friend Makin Monday! So tada! Two posts in one day!



If you’ve taken part in FMM then you know the rules. If you’re new, please take a moment to answer this week’s question on your own blog then add your link in the comments section here at: www.alltheweigh.com so we can all see your FMM questions and answers. Please invite your blog readers to add their links here too so everyone has to opportunity to be seen. The idea is to connect with other awesome bloggers so take a moment to post your own FMM post and comment on a couple of other posts. Now it’s time for this week’s topic!

Questions and Answers

1.  What is a typical weekday like for you? Crazy. I guess that's the best way to put it. I usually get up around 3:30am and start to get ready for the day. I pack my lunch, put on my gym clothes, that kind of thing. Then I go to the gym, try to get out there by 5:30. Go back home shower, get ready for work, leave by 6:30. I work from 7am- 2:30pm usually, but my schedule changes alot depending on when I can meet with families and such. THEN I get to go to my second job. I usually work that a few nights a week. Then I go home, try to be to bed my 9:30, then start all over :)

2.  Name one song that never fails to make you happy and one song that you always listen to when you’re sad.  This one changes alot, there are a TON of songs that make me happy. Right now I would say it is Something Beautiful by NEEDTOBREATHE. And I always listen to that when I'm sad :)

3.  Did you watch the VMA’s last night?  No...but I did youtube that clip of Miley (eww...)

4.  Share at least two that you possess. Two what? I think its asking talents? I'll go with that. I can give a good pedicure :) And I can hold a tune (Kindof).

5.  Share one thing that you wish you had the confidence to do.  There are two things really. If I was more practiced, I would want to sing in front of people for church. But I haven't had a lesson or sang formally in years so that's not an option. But my second one is to dance. I'm a freaking terrible dancer. But I wish I didn't care, and I got out there and just did my thing and ignored the world...that would be the day.

6. Tell us about one insecurity that people might be surprised that you have.  Well I don't really have any secrets. I pretty much tell people how I'm feeling whether they want to hear it or not. So basically my main insecurity is the way I look (mostly my weight) with my social interractions being a close second.

7.  If you could be the CEO of any company, which one would you choose to lead?  Under Armour, so I could have all the free cute workout clothes I want!!!!!!!!
8. List at least three hobbies that make you happy. I love to sing, for church or for my shower audience. I've LEARNED to love running. Or atleast the way it makes me feel. I also love chrocheting (even though I am barely mediocre at it and I never get to do it anymore because I work my life away,) It's still nice.
9.  Is there someone in your life that you wish you could say “I love you” to? Not really. If I love someone I usually tell them :)

10.  Share one cool thing that happened over the weekend.  I RAN 8 WHOLE FREAKING MILES AND I WANT TO SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS!!!

Now it’s your turn to answer this week’s questions.  Don’t forget to come back and link up in the comments!  Happy Monday, friends!

8 miles and 30 days

Yesterday I hit my longest distance yet, 8 miles! Woo! That being said, I felt every.single.one. For some reason I was tired from the get go. I didn't feel it until I started running (of course!) But I wanted to quit after mile 2. But I kept plugging along. My pace wasn't terrible either, probably around 10 min miles. But then it hit me. For some reason I got this terrible pain in my left knee that I've never had before. I've had some soreness in my right leg up to my knee, but never on the left, and never right IN my knee. It actually made me really nervous. At a couple of points I had to stop it was so bad. I just couldn't get it to go away. The best way I could describe it is that it was kindof catching or something on the inside. Like I needed to pop it back into place. But needless to say it made my last 2.5 miles MISERABLE! I can't lie, it made me super nervous for the half marathon. (oh BTW I'm back to only doing the Delta Lake one, I nixed the Hershey half until next year so we have more time to plan.) I couldn't help but think that if 8 miles was going to be like this then there is no freaking way I'll make it through 13.1. Or even the 9 that I have on the schedule for next sunday. I'm just really really hoping that if I take today and tomorrow as rest days (from running) that it will fix itself and I can jump right back on the horse.

I also wanted to write about this little challenge I'm doing for myself :) I'm pretty excited about it. I'm going 30 days, not going over 37 points in a day. I get 30 points a day anyway, and dividing up the extra weekly that would give me 37 per day. My little exceptions to this rule are that on long run days I can eat 40, and that GU doesn't count. So long run days I'll basically be eating 43 points a day. I know that doesn't really seem like a big deal to most people. But I binge. So usually within a week I eat all of my daily, weekly, and activity points. Thats if I don't go over. So this will hopefully get me back on track to just eating my daily and weekly points, and "banking" my activity points to *Hopfully* improve my weight loss. I'm a little nervous though. As I've said before, I'm an everyday weigher. So my weight hasn't really gone down since weigh in, its actually up a pound or so. I mean I don't really understand because typically after I binge I lose really fast the days after when I eat just 31 a day. I would think that if I stuck to 37 points, that would make the weight slowly and steadily come off all week. But hey, what do I know. The scale has fooled me many times. BUT, I'm sticking with it the whole 30 days (This is day 8). I'll just give my starting weight from weigh in (179.8 YAAAYYY!!! Officially out of the 180's!!!) and we will see where were at 22 days from now :) I will say that this challenge has already kept me from bingeing atleast 3 times. So Maybe that's what I need to keep myself on track! I'll keep updating on how things are going, today has been kinda rough so far, I don't have many points at all for dinner :( Wish me luck!

Woodsmen's 10K!

"Do you like Hills?" that was the first thing I was asked as I was pre-registering for my 10k. How do you answer that?!

What I wanted to do, was run away and forget the whole thing!! I've run 6.2 miles before. I don't know what I was so nervous, but that right there made me want to back out completely. But of course she followed it up with "It's so much fun, you'll love it!". So I followed through and registered.

Backing up a little, I got there SO FREAKING EARLY!! I don't know why I felt like I needed to get there at 4 when the race wasn't starting till 6, but I'm not gonna lie. It was most likely because I was nervous that I wouldn't get there in time to get a free shirt. Hey its the small things in life! So I pretty much got to hang out for an hour and 45 minutes because that's all there really was to do. I could have gone to the woodsmen's field days, but it was 10 dollars to get in, I would've only been there for an hour, and I am wayyyy too cheap to waste 10 dollars like that. So we waited. Luckily my BFF decided that she was going to come watch!!

Then right before the race my parents showed up too :) I'm telling you, running a race is so much better when you have people there cheering for you. I was kinda bummed I didn't have anyone to run with, but having them there to support me was so incredibly awesome.

(BTW, I keep trying to upload photos but they are tilted sideways and it won't let me fix it. If anyone knows how and could teach me, I'd appreciate it ;)

Anyways, about the race. This lady was NOT KIDDING in any way whatsoever about the hills. I'm telling you there were more hills then there were downhill and flat combined. It was super nice though because people of the community had set up sprinklers for us to run through, and tons of extra water stations! There was so much spirit about it all. Not to get cheesy or anything but the community really got together to support us, and that was a great feeling. I finally made it up the last hill, which pretty much had my knees into my chest because it was so steep!! Then there was this nice, long stretch of flat paved road. I've never appreciated flat road like I did then. Then I saw the end, it seemed so much closer than what it actually was, so I decided to really push it. There was one lady in front of me, and we'd pretty much been neck and neck the whole race. But as soon as I got to the last .2 till the finish line, I went all out and passed her! Now I didn't do this because I wanted to beat her. I did it because I wanted to prove to myself that I could really push it when I needed to.

This race was so incredibly hard for me. I literally almost lost my lunch everywhere when I got to the finish line. But I can honestly say that this was probably the proudest I've ever been of me. Now I just can't wait till next year to do it again!

AND NOW!!! For your viewing pleasure!!! A sideways picture of me! lol

I'm the dork that likes to take the same picture over and over before every race...I don't know why

I'm hoping to post about more running adventures soon. Hope everyone is doing well, and running strong :)

~Beverly

Busy Busy

I'm a slacker. I'll just put it right out there before I go any further. I've been meaning to write for almost a month. But, life gets in the way, and as you can see I didn't.  But I'm back and will try to post more often.
Good news is, I'm almost back on track. I'm about a pound away from losing everything I had gained when I took a month off (uhh... ya that happened...). But I also have had a rough day yesterday and today.  Yesterday was manageable, I stayed withib my weekly points allowance.  Today I lost all sense of control.  The boyfriend and I  spontaneously decided we were going to go to a little amusement park about an hour away from home.  No biggie.  We went to the store, got some healthy foods for lunch, thought I had it under control.  In comes donuts.  My friend took us to this place that makes fresh donuts every day about ten minutes outside of Old Forge.  SWEET LORD I thought I had died and gone to heaven. so naturally I had to eat three of them.  Just to clue you in, that's just how my day started.  It got so much worse from there.
I also skipped my long run today.  I was actually very bummed about this.  I was going to go tonight when we for back from the park, around 8 or so.  But I kinda had a little family feuding  incident and decided it would be better to go home and cry and eat even more terrible food to try and make it better.  So I guess I'll be running 7 miles before tomorrow morning.  Awesome. 
So plan for tomorrow/rest of week.  Run 7 miles.  Eat like I actually have control over my food decisions. Not be a slacker. Run a 10k Friday (I'll mention how terrified I am about that tomorrow...). But for now I need to hit the Hey. Night night world.
~Beverly