I am loving Uggs!!! After much complaining yet admiring, and a lot of back-and-forth in my mind, Hubs took me out last night to feed me delicious food and to shop for Uggs. Here's the thing: I get that they're ugly. I really do. But let me tell you something...I put my foot into a pair of black Classic Talls and I thought I saw Jesus. Oh my God, the warmth and the comfort... It was love.
And with that successful trial, my mind was made up. There was only one problem - Bloomingdale's didn't have my size, the bastards! But that's okay, ordering them online is where it's at. And in preparation for the boots, I ordered two fabulous pairs of skinny jeans from Gap today.
You read that right. The (formerly?) fat chick bought skinny jeans. No need to applaud.
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Hubs and I got back from a hiking trip to the White Mountains a few weeks ago. I meant to post pictures but of course I found better things to do. So here are some highlights:
Lonesome Lake, which is actually a mountain tarn. We'd already hiked to 2740' at this point.
The view from Lowe's Bald Spot. This was a LONG hike - 5.5 miles round trip, lots of elevation gained, lots of rock climbing involved. Exciting!
Square Ledge, one of our favorite hikes. Short but very steep - a lot of elevation gained over a short distance. Rock scrambling/climbing involved here. Love it!
Don't mind the look, I'm a bit tired. This is after our Lowe's Bald Spot hike...I'm eating a veggie sandwich with hummus on multi-grain bread. Delicious!
Lowe's Bald spot again. Yeah, we had to climb that rock. :)
So what's the point? The point is that I am so grateful to my body for allowing me to do things like this - for not failing me, for treating me so well even though I spent a lot of time treating her poorly. It's not quite an unconditional love - Lord knows we CAN do enough to ourselves to cause permanent damage - but it certainly is a forgiving one.
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Who's up for a challenge? My sister and I are! Our challenge is to lose 15 pounds by Christmas. Keep your fingers crossed for me!
5 comments:
Good for you! Wow ... a great body AND a great attitude. No wonder you are succeeding. I don't think I'll join you on your challenge (15 pounds in 6 weeks is a bit too ambitious for me) but I'll cheer you on from the sidelines. GO GO GO!!!
I'm in! 15 pounds by Christmas. I need a challenge to break me out of this 185-195 rut I've been stalled out in for almost 4 months!!! Ugh.
If I do this, I'll be @ 179.5... officially in the "overweight" range. No longer Obese would be a nice Christmas gift to myself :)
We can do this!
How you doin'? I'm down 1.5 pounds already... 13.5 to go!
Barbara, thank you!!! :)
Laura, that's a nice Christmas gift to yourself. And you're doing great! :) I'm down 5.6 today, jeez...must've been holding on to a lot of water!
Pretty ambitious goal to lose that much weight before Christmas! I wish you all the good tidings and fortunes that can be bestowed upon you. Just promise me you're not going to amputate something, because at this point, surgically removing a limb would be my only way of losing that much weight in 5 weeks.
Great pics of the lake and mountains... you make me wish I was either retired, fabulously wealthy, or a forest ranger... or all three!
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