I got my walk in this morning - 5.4 miles of it! My activity levels have really taken a nose dive compared to what I was getting before Memorial Day; I just haven't been able to get them back up to where they were even with the extra daylight. I feel like I've just had so much to do that gets in the way, and now the high heat of late summer is here with the humidity, and that makes it even harder. But I managed to get out early this morning before it got hot and got my first walk in in over a week, so I can now have a decent lunch lol

The scale took a good drop this morning, too - the last weight entry I had in my running log was 235 lbs, though the next day I recorded 234.2; this morning was 231.9 lbs, so I lost around 2 lbs which tells me that the excesses I had been struggling with for the last month didn't do any damage other than stall me out. Thankfully, this week has been better - I've had much better success in reigning in the hunger beast; sounds like that camping trip was something I was desperately needing! I know it helped reduce my stress levels!

I've got another camping trip scheduled for the first of August, but that won't be as stress relieving because I"ll be going with the family on that one.

I was talking about bathing suits in another thread and now its got me wanting to go swimming, so I think I'll take my sister tomorrow to a park not far from here that has a fantastic swimming hole. I'll try to talk my parents into going as well; they are all 3 going to be pretty down; they lost one of their kitties yesterday, and she was the youngest and the friendliest and most loving one, too

*laughs* we had an adventure yesterday! My parents decided to go with my sister and I, so I took a half day yesterday and told them we'd leave between 1 and 2. However, when I get over there, I find that my dad had gone with my grandfather to look at a tractor and they weren't back yet; he didn't come back home until after 2:30, so it was closer to 3 before we finally got on the road. it's something like an hour or so to the park with the great swimming hole, and we didn't get up there until 4. We were all hungry and decided to go ahead and eat the picnic dinner we had brought with us, so mom built a fire in the grill and warmed up the sloppy joes I had made, and it was 5 before I was able to start heading to the water hole. My sister had this stupid floaty thing she wanted blown up, and all I had was my small compressor which took about 15 minutes to blow the darn thing up. Meanwhile, it had started getting cloudy.

We finally get down to the swimming hole and I wade in and work my way to the deeper spot. I was only in maybe 5 minutes or less, when someone spots a water snake, so we all got out. Then I heard thunder in the distance and it started sprinkling, then raining. Then came this torrential downpour. I waited and waited and finally after 20 minutes, realized it wasn't going to just pass over, the air temp had dropped 15 degrees and it was getting cold, so we worked our way up to the truck, changed clothes and headed home.

In the end, all I got was less than 5 minutes in the swimming hole and about 20 minutes standing in the rain under the trees lol And my sister and I neither one got any S'mores - we were going to eat those before heading home! Mom and dad at least got theirs in before having to make for the truck when the rain starting coming down harder. Mom calls it making memories


Its been a pretty long time since the best friend and I had one of our marathon phone conversations, but it happened yesterday - she called at 9 pm and we didn't get off the phone until 6 am I couldn't stay in bed past 9:30, so I'm up, finishing my dessert for the cookout at my brother's (if he and his wife aren't on their way to the hospital to deliver their new baby as the child could come at any time at this point), and had breakfast. It's threatening to rain again outside and its windy, so I can't go out and spray weed killer again, so I think I'm taking a lounge day today - either that, or I may go out to my camper, measure the size I need for my cushions for the table booth area, and cut the mattress down and start making those. Or I could blow an hour or so playing a computer game. I don't know - we'll see.

I ended up going way over on calories yesterday - well, not way, way over; if my estimation is right, I was probably right at maintenance. That's do the small supper that didn't hold me that was earlier than I usually had it and being up all night talking on the phone. However, I got up this morning to a new all-time low - 229.7 lbs! I had to triple check that reading this morning, especially since I should have still had food on the stomach and had only gotten 3 hours of sleep! That pushes my happy scale trend to 231.1 so I am 89% toward my next small goal and that puts me 10 lbs away from my huge first goal of 220 lbs that I've been working toward for the last 3 years! Brain - don't you dare start your tricks now because we are way too close for you to start acting up now! lol

conniewilkins56 wrote: »

Your adventure sounds exhausting!...too bad you don’t have a pool to use in your area....I won’t hardly swim in a lake or the ocean...too many critters and funky algae stuff in fresh water...I can’t remember the last time I went on a picnic...sounds like so much fun...enjoy the rest of the weekend and great job on your new low...you must look amazing!

@conniewilkins56 I wish there was a local pool! Then again, since I"m in the mountains of WV, we don't the same problems as Florida when it comes to swimming in lakes and ponds. And this particular swimming hole is actually in a fresh running creek, cold and clear out of the mountains. But I saw an article about some of the problems with swimming in fresh water int he deep south, and the warnings of "brain eating bacteria" are terrifying!