July already?

I can hardly believe its July already. I love this warm sunny summer weather. Today is a perfect day and I have been making excuses to get out of the building where I work all morning.

This past weekend was very good. I went to the beach on Friday with my mother, sister and a good friend. It was not a very good beach day. It was cloudy and it even rained on us a bit. We sat in our chairs and continued to read and chat despite the bad weather. We did a little shopping after our time on the beach and then went out for dinner. I didn’t order anything; I just had a bit of what each of them had ordered. We had a nice time. Saturday I did things around the house and enjoyed my day at home. Sunday my mom had cake (sugar free) for me for my birthday. All in all it was a wonderful weekend.

Last night I went to my Monday night Weight loss support group at the hospital. It was a bigger group than usual. There are two groups that meet on alternating Mondays and because of vacation schedules and such we have two combined groups meetings. I really didn’t have much to add to the group this week. There was a lot of talk about how people treat you differently after you loose weight and some people were feeling excluded by their friends and family. They were not being invited to places where there might be food or not invited to go for a bike ride if the others were going to be stopping for ice cream. I haven’t experienced that at this point so I didn’t have much to offer. All I could say is that you need to be honest with people when you are feeling left out and hurt. They need to know that we are okay going for a bike ride and not eating the ice cream. I suppose they are just trying to be helpful and not sabotage our weight loss by putting the ice cream in front of us.

This week is already going by quickly and with the holiday on Friday it will be a nice short week. I have a fun weekend ahead. We are campers and we have lots of friends who camp with us. We all have trailers, from pop-ups to big 5th wheel trailers. Rather than go away and pay campground fees and gas prices we have invited our friends to come and camp at our house in our yard. We have water and electric for their hook ups but we do not have waste dumping. Our yard is plenty big enough for the trailers and tents that are coming and we have a nice place for a campfire in the evenings. We have a pool and a hot tub, a volleyball net has been set up and the horseshoes are all set too. We live about ¼ of a mile from the town beach at a small lake. We have a couple of kayaks and a canoe that we can take to the beach if anyone wants to do the boat thing. We have planned our menu and everyone is bringing food and drinks. I am really looking forward to camping at home this weekend.

This is our first summer in our new home and I feel like I am on vacation all the time when I am there. There is little need to go away; we have it all in our own back yard. It’s just much more fun when you can share it with friends.

I did not lose any weight this week. This is the first week with no loss at all. I am still 258 lbs. I know what the problem is, Doritos. It’s kind of funny that I have a hard time eating the things I should like chicken, turkey… and tuna, but I have no problem at all with crunchy things like Doritos. Next week will be better. I would love to be under 250 before I go on vacation at the end of July.

Happy Fourth of July!