A month?!

I can't believe it's been almost a month since I last blogged. My weight hasn't really changed, although it fluctuates. Mostly I just don't feel like discussing it anymore... I am just living life! I hope to lose more but I seem to be maintaining and I am okay with that. If and when it happens, yay :) I keep working on exercising as much as possible, but my back/hip pain is always an issue. I usually get my 3 days at Curves and one or two other workouts per week on top of that, but some weeks I only get Curves. My one year appt with my surgeon is coming up on Tuesday, so I'll try to report in on that... but mostly I think the purpose of this blog is changing. There is no day-to-day stuff to talk about in regards to my weight loss surgery anymore, so I just want to go back to talking about my regular life :) Maybe trying to post more regularly about daily life stuff like I was doing before.... but I think I am ready to shift my focus away from weight and back to my life, with of course mentioning when I hit a new milestone or maybe something comes to mind. Hope that's alright with everybody. I just want this to be my BLOG again!!! And not something I neglect so much :( So I will try to be back soon with an update of everything that has been going on lately, and I'll be starting to post a lot more random things from my daily life too.

Moving Right Along

Well, quite the shocker, things are just moving right along. Today's weight:

198.0! yay :) I'm really happy about that. No "regular" workouts last week but was going going going, and we did a big hike on Saturday. More photos to come in the future but since it takes me so long, here's a little preview:

Um yeah, do you see why I LOVE Colorado??

Other than that I've been "recovering" from my friend's visit... I have so much to catch up on. Doing a mountain of laundry today and picking up the house, have many errands to run, etc!! Hoping to get a good workout in too :) Will try to be back and update with more happenings ASAP!

Onederland.

FINALLY!!

I thought I was going to see a gain this morning... I've had my friend in town for 8 days and haven't "worked out" and haven't eaten the best (nor have I tracked my WW Points, which I plan to resume doing now). However, we were go go go and did a LOT of walking, and I tried to make good choices as much as possible. Obviously it worked for me. I'm thrilled I finally have this. And, just for the record, I saw 199.6 the second try ;)
I can't wait til I'm a few pounds lower so I won't have to risk seeing myself go up over 200 when I fluctuate. That will be really nice.

SO MUCH to catch up on here on the blog but just had to share this for now!

Steamboat Hoodie

Right now I have a friend in town visiting, so I haven't been on the blog much but I wanted to share this. I have a thing for collecting hoodies from all the great mountain towns here in Colorado. I used to have quite the collection but of course they are all much too big for me now.
My friend and I are here in Steamboat Springs, CO and went into a shop to get hoodies. For the first time I was able to buy a WOMEN'S hoodie in a mountain town!!!








It's an XL and fits perfectly. I'm thrilled I finally have this option! :)

Meyers Homestead Hike

May 14th, 2011... In an effort to just start hiking already, we went up to Boulder and did this 5 1/2 mile hike. We wanted summer to be here and wanted to start hiking... well unfortunately it was about 40 degrees, windy, foggy, rainy... pretty much awful. But we are proud to say we did it anyway!

I was freezing before we even got started :(

Do I look cold?

The homestead:

Very pretty trail!

Some handsome hiker I picked up along the way:

My hair was getting wet by this point from all the fog and mist:

The fog descends upon us:

Some pretty flowers we saw:

We hiked about 5 1/2 miles... we think we went a little farther than we were supposed to, oops! But we had a great time and we were proud of ourselves for doing the whole hike despite the uncooperative weather. Hopefully many more hikes ahead of us this summer & fall!

Family BBQ

This was actually on Mother's Day... see how behind I am in blogging? Oh well... anyway, we had a BBQ at my aunt's house and Ian and I made all the food for it :) Got a couple nice pics...

My grandma with her big bouquet of flowers. She was given these at church for Mother's Day because she's the oldest mom in the congregation at 93 years old :)

Ian took that one and I think it's a nice family photo!

Blown out background but I like it anyway :)

Grilled chicken with a salsa made from grilled onions and pineapples (among other things), a delicious salad and some bread.

Good food, good times! :)

Snowshoeing w/ Ian

Finally after snowshoeing with my friends (and no Ian!) a few times, Ian thought that looked like fun and he wanted to give it a try too! We went together April 30th... it was my 4th time and his first :) He ended up really liking it!

For those who are local, we were up in Rocky Mountain National Park and started at the Sprague Lake trailhead :)

(Ian all geared up and ready to go on a beautiful day!)

(The trail! No other foot/snowshoe traffic that day, just a lonely skiier)

(Happy Snowshoers)

(Ian on the trail)

(Our snowshoes- I purchased my white ones but he borrowed his from a friend)

On our way back, snow started falling all around us! It was so pretty but much colder and windier... we enjoyed it though!

We stopped for a few breaks here and there (and of course, to take photos) but we moved along pretty good and did about 2 1/2 miles in 2 hours. I am so happy Ian gave this a try and liked it! We enjoy hiking in the summer so much, and this gives us a great way to get outdoors in the winter.