Registered today! This has been a bucket list race and I’ve never been on the ball to know when registration opened. Well FYI it opened today and I happened to look up when it opened last week!
October 9th if anyone is interested!
http://www.armytenmiler.com/registration/individual-registration.cfm
2 weeks ago: 194.9
This week: 192.9
I want to be back in the 180s so bad and I know I’m on track. Once I get into the 180s I want to maintain there. I am happy in the 180s, but still working out and eating right without overdoing it. I’ve been in the 170s twice (briefly) and my life was centered around running and working out. I love running and working out, but I don’t want it to consume me.
I had a really good chat with my friend C over the weekend. We’ve shared our ups and downs with weight and she said “this is where my body wants to be and I’m accepting that.” She said in order to be at an “ideal” weight, she had to obsess over it. Obsessing over food and working out takes the JOY out of it. As we’ve all learned this week from Chewbacca mom, we need the simple joys in life.
Yesterday I did some MUCH needed outlet shopping.
I have been SO bored of my clothes lately, but haven’t made time to shop. Seriously this whole winter I think I only bought 2 shirts, a puffy coat, and 2 pairs of work pants. Both shirts quickly got holes in them just from washing them (stupid Kohls, if they weren’t like on clearance I would have returned them).
So I went to the Tanger outlets like 10 minutes from T’s house yesterday and told myself to shop and to buy things that aren’t like what I already have in my closet.
So here’s my loot from H&M, NY&Co, and Papaya (think Mandee for my NY people or a better Charlotte Russe).
The good/annoying part of the day is almost every shirt I tried on, I had to go back and get a smaller size. Literally every L at NY&Co was comically huge and it def should not based on my body. I get vanity sizing, but it also is hella annoying when I need to go back through the store to get everything I just tried on in a smaller size. Then there is H&M where I bought 12/medium shirts, a large dress. This is why I rarely buy clothes online, there is no telling what size fits.
PS – All my purchases came to under $125 total 🙂
OMG I have been obsessed with this beer since I went to San Diego in Feb 2014 and have looked for it regularly. Finally found it at Wegmans today!!!! (at Wegmans)
Weather finally cooperated enough for me to get my first bike ride of the year in! (at W&OD Trail Columbia Pike Entrance)
My friend KW posted this on IG. It was above a scale in the Rec Center gym of the college I used to work at. She said at the bottom of the sign it included facts about daily weight fluctuation. #positivebodyimage
Awww last week was my 6 year tumblr-versary!
In January 2010 I has started MeasuringLife “1.0″ on blogspot, but after a few months I caught wind of tumblr and the fitblr community (pour one out for the hey day of fitblr) and moved over to tumblr and backfilled with my blogger posts.
Thank you for being here through my ups and down. My too many posts in a week to no posts in a week times. This outlet is a huge part of my journey.
So 2 weeks ago I saw some facebook sponsored post about if I knew my metabolic type and my #1 metabolic killer. Out of curiosity I clicked on it and took the online questionnaire.
It old me my metabolic type is a “mixed burner”
My #1 metabolic killer was that I am a “wide window eater”
I’ve been struggling to lose weight for the past year – lots of plateaus despite working out hard and well on the regular. So I was intrigued.
It says that my metabolic type based on the survey is that I burn both sugars and muscle. “Mixed burners are right in the middle and can be nudged toward the sugar burner side of the equation if they overindulge in carbs and fat. At the same time, they can also be pulled to the muscle burner side if they are overexposed and/or acutely reactive to stress.”
I really found the “wide window eater” metabolic killer to be interesting because I generally eat small meals between 8am-8pm. It is suggested that I eat the same amount, but in a more compressed time like 11am-7pm.
Granted the website wanted to sell me a work out regime called Metabolic Aftershock that is more about pushing your anaerobic threshold. I’m intrigued, but also want to use the summer to triathlon train. However last week I was conscious of trying to wait until ~10:30am to eat, which so far hasn’t been bad (especially since I’m not working out in the morning). I’m going to try and spend the month “closing my eating window” and see if I get any results. Has anyone else done this?
Only took 4 years for me to snap a pic of one of my favorite landmarks in Alexandria (at Mount Vernon Trail)
T told me the other day in passing that he owns a treadmill and that it is at his parent’s house. UMMMMMMMMMM it took you 23 months to tell me this! Which means once we figure out townhouse stuff we can equip it with a treadmill. I already have a home gym planned out for the basement haha!