Been Awhile.... again

Okay so I'm still yoyoing a bit, but my latest marker has been 35.6lbs down. I'm thrilled but let me just say that while yes I've been up and down a few pounds, I keep progressing and yesterday/today has been the best result I ever expected to get so "soon". I use the word soon loosely being as I hadn't really had a good test of my stamina in a long time. Yeah, sure I have been working out and riding my bike, but nothing that I really have felt like I could gage my progress by. Thursday we left for a camping trip after I got home from work and although I'm sick, managed to backpack in to one of our favorite places to camp and I was surprised at how well I kept up with Dave. Usually I fall a bit behind and he gets irritated that he has to slow down for me. Today when we came back, my cold worse and both of us sore from the hard ground I was again shocked. The first hill that we have to go down on the way from the car is a very steep road/path and you generally have to go down it zigzagging back and forth and going up has always been a zigzag pattern with pauses every few feet because it's so steep. Today after keeping up REALLY well on the trek back to the car when we got to that final deathtrap I managed to go straight up it and even beat Dave to the top. I was breathing heavy and coughing at the top (thanks to my cold) but I made it in less than a minute to the top and before it would sometimes take 5 minutes or more. We got back and dave took me out to a late breakfast. Then we came home, I took some cold meds and crashed. The kitties now are trying to find comfy places because of the fire works. I'm going to write a bit on my ghost story and then crash again.