Hiking

I have kind of fallen off the blog challenge. I just haven't had time at a computer! I am home this morning so that I can do laundry and catch up on items here. I thought I would do an update too since there is no pressing homework or anything else today. With my keeping busy, I am trying hard to get healthy again. I have been working out at a gym for 6 months now and paying attention to my eating. I have put on a lot of new muscle. It is frustrating when I see other people loose weight more quickly than me, but I am trying to remind myself that it was 2 years of weight gain - give it two years to come off healthily. I don't want a quick-fix where it bounces right back on. I want to get healthy and stay there. It is still hard because the scale has gone down and back up within a 10 pound frame and I am actually at a weight I began at. What is more important though is all the muscle I see it my arms, legs, and elsewhere. I have leaned out too. Inches and body fat are way more important to me than a scale number. I would just forgo the scale weigh-ins, but I like to see how I am doing there too. Hmmm, maybe I just shouldn't check until the spring? Anyway, I have picked back up into my pre-holiday routine of hiking on Saturdays. It is a great workout and way to hang out with friends. The last two weekends I hiked with Melissa and Anthony. Here are some photos: