Motivation Monday Link-Up & 5 Mile Run!

It's time for another round of Motivation Monday! Grab a button and join my co-hosts Wendy, Morgan, Alisha, Katie, Veronica, Gwen and myself for a little motivational pick-me-up to start the week off right. Share your progress, thoughts, recipes... whatever is working for you!

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Saturday, I woke up withe crazy idea to run 5 miles. The farthest I have ever ran at one time was 4.5 miles several years ago, and even though I only get to run once a week or so, I wanted to see if I could surpass that. 

The last two miles were painful, but I pushed through. It's ridiculous how excited I was to have actually done it. Not only that, but I cut a full minute off my last 5K time! Our minds prevent us from doing so many things we are capable of. From mile 3.5 on, I kept thinking, "You can't do this. You're hurting, you should stop. You cut a minute off your 5K, you don't need to run 5 miles." I was right about the hurting part. It hurt, bad. I'm still hurting today! But I can do it and I did do it.

Next, yesterday was my weigh in. I weighed in at 174.2 which is just over a pound lost for the week and 21 pounds total! After my crappy eating last week, I was extremely happy with that number.

So far, my Photo Food Log experiment is helping me keep my eating under wraps. When you have to stop and take a picture before eating, it definitely makes you think twice about it. I've been posting them on IG and hope to keep it up!

So, what's working for you? Grab a button, and don't forget to come back and add the link to your post!