Our New Years celebration included a trip up to Mt. Hood. We rented a huge cabin with 23 people. The food was communal, so that was not ideal. According to my husband, this was a final partying hurrah, since the next step in our lives will be kids, we are putting our party days behind us, so I didn't want to say no to this experience. I know exactly how to recover from it!
We left Sunday, my birthday! It was snowing in Portland and Forest Grove, so it took us about 4 hours to get home. We even saw an SUV slam straight into the freeway barrier, nose-first. It was scary. Portlanders do not know how to drive in snow/ice. It's not just the weather you have to worry about, it's the obstacles (meaning other drivers)!
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| Yellow house = Ours! |
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| Lavi-butt trying to eat the snow. |
What I accomplished
- Walked 1 mile a day, uphill, then down, in snow and ice. It was quite an ab workout to keep my balance.
- 2 hours of cosmic tubing. It's pretty tiring carrying a 2 person-tube up the hill and pushing
little kids people out of the way. By the end, we were running once we hit the bottom of the slope because it was so cold with the wind sheer off the mountain, and we didn't want to stand in line waiting to go back up the hill. We got a couple more rounds in before we decided to call it quits. Brr!!
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| Miranda (left) and Me. |
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| Me and the toboggan |
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| Miranda and a very blurry me. |
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| Yep. Me again. |
- Learned a new game called Woopie. So fun! It's a mix between Speed and solitaire.
- Dance party! So much dancing.
Food Journal
- I consumed quite a bit of stuff over the weekend, including lasagna, oreos and beer. Honestly, I couldn't stomach too many of the oreos, maybe 4 or 6 over the course of 2 days. The lasagna I had one slice of and then was full. I love that I have a natural tolerance for these items now. When I started this is June of 2014, that wouldn't have been possible!
Observations
- Progress, however small, is the game. I love comparing experiences between times in my life. I feel so much more in control when I know how my body is going to react (eating good food) versus when I react emotionally and try to stuff it down with food. I got some bad news about my grandparents this weekend. No one tried to console me with food, but I discussed my emotions with my friends and we found other things to distract me and make me happy (like games and dancing). Does it still hurt? Yes. I'm not the only one going through this issue, so it is nice to hear how other people have coped with similar troubles.
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