weekend report

May 3
2009

I need to remember to carry a camera.

This evening as I went for my walk, it was between rain showers. The mountains were decorated in misty fog and clouds, and the green as showed through seemed more brilliant than it possibly should with the grey skies and brooding rain clouds. The mountains where multicolored – green at the base where the grasses are coming to life and welcoming the change in seasons, grey and brown higher up where the rocks outnumber the meadows, darker browns and greens even higher where the pine trees battle with the snow for dominance, and snow on the crests, exagerated by the straight lines of the aspens that are still leafless seeming to be a light fur on the shoulders of the mountain.

Several deer alternated between freezing as they looked at me, and bounding a little further away as my dog and I maintained a steady pace long the path.

I really enjoy going for walks.

The diet has seemed to work. Even though I cheated terribly on it the last 3 days after discovering that my scale was off balance and I didn’t really weight 207, it was more like 211. I am still 10 lbs down. I will make the soup again tonight and start over tomorrow. If I can drop another 10 lbs this week, I will be below the magical 200lbs that I haven’t dropped below for quite a while.

As for the pullups, well . . .I hit my “five” on thursday (I think) and haven’t been able to pull it out since. I can do 4 every time I get on the bar though. I know I will be able to pull out more in the coming days.

And I certainly feel lighter, and better.