On weight and a hike
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nwhikerWell, March is over and I was up about 3 pounds for the month, grr.
It's been a bit of a rough month, starting with my aunt's death, followed by celebrating a few birthdays and other good things, and then the job thing, all on a background of the stress engendered by that lying dog shit in the White House and his cadre of craven crooks. So yeah. Some stress eating, some celebration eating, some sadness eating. Zeppy helps limit but unlike for some people, it doesn't make me ill if I eat a bit much.
So. Up.
I am upping my dose to the max and so the end of weight loss is near, at least until they come out with some better meds, LOL.
That said...
We went on a hike yesterday, just a short ramble to Twin Falls. We did the same hike two years and a month ago, at the start of my weight loss. And took a selfie at the same spot. Note that one camera is the selfie camera, the other is the 0.5 lens, so there is some distortion on that, but yeah, even I can truly see how much weight I've lost.
The hike was much easier. I didn't need hiking poles. Nobody encouraged me or really paid any attention to me. The paradox of being fat: in most of society, you are invisible, aside from disgusted or contemptuous looks, but in exercise or outdoors situations, you are highly visible, your existence in their space open to comment and appraisal.
We went a bit further up on the trail to see if we could reach the Cascades to Palouse trail that we used a few times while training for our half marathon, but the trail past the falls that heads to it was, tbh, boring so we bailed after a bit. Walked down to the lower fall this time, something we didn't attempt last time, both because of me but also dh. He's in much better shape now too.
A few other photos from the hike.
It's been a bit of a rough month, starting with my aunt's death, followed by celebrating a few birthdays and other good things, and then the job thing, all on a background of the stress engendered by that lying dog shit in the White House and his cadre of craven crooks. So yeah. Some stress eating, some celebration eating, some sadness eating. Zeppy helps limit but unlike for some people, it doesn't make me ill if I eat a bit much.
So. Up.
I am upping my dose to the max and so the end of weight loss is near, at least until they come out with some better meds, LOL.
That said...
We went on a hike yesterday, just a short ramble to Twin Falls. We did the same hike two years and a month ago, at the start of my weight loss. And took a selfie at the same spot. Note that one camera is the selfie camera, the other is the 0.5 lens, so there is some distortion on that, but yeah, even I can truly see how much weight I've lost.
The hike was much easier. I didn't need hiking poles. Nobody encouraged me or really paid any attention to me. The paradox of being fat: in most of society, you are invisible, aside from disgusted or contemptuous looks, but in exercise or outdoors situations, you are highly visible, your existence in their space open to comment and appraisal.
We went a bit further up on the trail to see if we could reach the Cascades to Palouse trail that we used a few times while training for our half marathon, but the trail past the falls that heads to it was, tbh, boring so we bailed after a bit. Walked down to the lower fall this time, something we didn't attempt last time, both because of me but also dh. He's in much better shape now too.
A few other photos from the hike.
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