...Nothing is more important than our friendship." Mike Wazowski - Monsters, Inc.
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Friday was a good day, but nothing special happend. It was a rest day, so I just did some very unintensive table tennis practice (mostly serve and return training), but not much apart from that. I ate well. My "daily sin" was 1! (in words "ONE") selfmade hazelnut madeleine that my brother offered me. If you don't know what it is, better not google it while you're in the middle of a dietbet. xD
Seriously, my mouth gets watery just writing about it. But it is in fact possible to eat just one piece of "sinful" food for ~100kcal and stop after that. I didn't think it was, for a long time, but it is. Haha.
Saturday was nice. I went to bed pretty late on friday, so I got up pretty late. But the moment I was awake, I was full of energy the whole day. I cleaned like the entire house, did the laundry, did some gardening work, did the shopping, and then I realized that it was already 5:45 p.m. and I had to be a friend's house at 7 and haven't been running yet. I only had a light lunch, because I knew we were going to make self-made wraps in the evening with some friends. So I just finished the housework, took a shower and went, telling myself I would make up for it on sunday. The evening was nice. We had a really good time, playing games, talking, having fun and making our wraps. I had two, loaded them with veggies, just some small pieces of grilled chicken breast and stayed clear of the sauces. It was a total of somewhere between 600-800 kcal I guess. I sticked to water and didn't drink any sodas. Seriously, staying away from sodas has now become almost as easy for me as staying away from alcohol (I don't drink at all, and never did) after just 6 weeks.
I knew I had to make today (sunday) count, because I hadn't burned that much in those past two days. So I was pumped to run today. I didn't really know how long I wanted to run in the first place, so I justed started and told myself I'd see how I feel after the first few kilometres and decide then. I felt pretty good and after my "standard route" which is between 10-11km I made the decision to go for the half-marathon distance today (*gulp*). I have planned and calculated the distance of a certain route weeks ago, and I was sure it was slightly more than 21 km and I felt so good today, that I wanted to try it. I'm not going to lie, the last 4 km were really hard. While everything felt great those first ~16-17km, everything seemed to come down at once. ^^ My knees, my thighs, my ankles, my breath. Quitting never was a serious consideration, but "walking" and stop jogging really was.
And then, I remembered a short motivational video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbkZrOU1Zag ) that I posted on one of my dietbets just today to motivate others. I've watched it so many times, I almost know it by heart. And there was my reason to just refuse to stop...you guys. :) Apart from obvious bragging rights^^, I really didn't want to let those people down that motivated me so much for the last seven weeks. Knowing that there are some people out there that are just as happy for me losing weight and succeding as I am for them, is such a huge motivation. When I started my first dietbet, I thought the money would motivate me, but honestly, I couldn't care less for the money right now. This awesome community is why I'm still here after almost seven weeks. Thank you so much. I love you all. Or if you want to use todays Disney quote: "You and I are a team!"
Oh, and by the way, I did NOT complete a half marathon. I somehow miscalculated the distance of the route and fell ~500 metres short. Booooh XD
But that doesn't count, does it? :) I promise I could have done those last 500 metres if I'd realize my mistake earlier. :D
I will weigh-in for my next dietbet with Jen Widerstrom tomorrow morning (it's already past midnight here in Germany). I'm so excited because I like her a lot.
Note to self: Maybe it would have been smarter to weigh-in today, before the run. Hahaha.