Lake Powell

Last week I went down to Lake Powell with my family. It was amazing. The reason I'm writing about it here is because I felt like I have perhaps turned over a new leaf with my eating. First of all lets just say I like to have control over my basic needs and don't like relying on others to provide for me. This is perhaps because I've been depending on myself for so long and now cannot or do not trust others to do it for me. Being single, I usually eat on my own schedule rather than someone elses. I was a little apprehensive about the eating situation because everyone was taking turns making meals and we would be in a place that I'd have to depend on that in order to eat because there are no other options. At Lake Powell you're pretty close to being in the middle of nowhere.

So the point I'm trying to get at is that even though we didn't eat particularly healthy meals, I felt like I ate less yet didn't get over hungry. The excitement of the adventure was much more on my mind than how hungry I was. My only disappointment was that I had expected to lose weight because of this but I didn't. I attribute it to the fact that though we did some physical activity, I wasn't loading a bus everyday on top of it (part of what I do at work). I feel like I'm still losing weight but there isn't much of a change on the scale. More and more people are saying how good I'm looking so I'm going to allow that to continue to motivate me and to not give up.

Extra side note: Before my trip I went shopping for clothes because I needed new jeans as it is getting colder and most of the ones I own are too big. I am now down to a size 18! I think I did a dance in the dressing room. I haven't been this size for 10 years!