I was looking forward to weigh-in Saturday morning, because I thought for sure, the week I ran half-marathon distance, I must have torched some serious pounds! I stepped onto the scale, eager to see the number.
169.0
On one hand, that was awesome. My mini-goal was hitting the 160’s, and I did it! I lost 2 pounds since last week. I should have been excited, right?
But I wasn’t. Two pounds? After running over 13 miles? I felt cheated and disappointed. I’m not sure exactly what I expected, just more than that.
Two pounds is still two pounds in the right direction and two pounds closer to my goal. My reward for reaching the 160’s is this workout DVD:
I love Cathe Friedrich, and this weight-training DVD got really good reviews. Her DVD’s tend to cost a bit more (this one was over $20), but I have found they are well worth it. I will review it after I receive it and try it out.
This past weekend, my stepkids were home with us. My 13-year-old stepson told me he saw my post on Facebook about running over 13 miles, and he congratulated me and said, “I liked it on Facebook because you said you had been trying to reach that distance for a long time.” I loved that he was proud of me. It meant so much to me.
But…I had checked that post to see who had liked it, and his name wasn’t on that list. I checked again, thinking I had just missed it, but nope, it wasn’t there. Well, he certainly didn’t lie about liking it, and he had obviously seen it because he knew I had mentioned it being a goal of mine for a long time. There is only one possible explanation: after he liked it, his biological mother, Psycho, logged in as him and un-liked it.
I just shook my head. Yes, that is definitely something she would do, as sad and pathetic as it is. My stepson liking something I wrote about my fitness achievements would have sent her into a jealous spiral of rage. Well, let her be jealous. That’s her prerogative. My stepson knows what I achieved, and he is proud of me, and she can’t change that!
Sweat & Sparkle 