I Cannot Believe It!

I did it. Whew. There is no way I could have survived the last two days before DTG. Absolutely, positively, no way.

So I picked up our rental truck (the 16' one) and brought it home to load. John was late getting off work so I started loading it about 10. He got home about 1:30. We were done at 3:30. When I took it to get it weighed, I was expecting about 1500 pounds. My jaw dropped when I saw we had loaded 4120 pounds!!!! In the rain. So I couldn't use the ramp and had to lift each box up into the truck. Now, I was calculating (it's the math major in me, I can't help it.) and if you consider the 50 pounds I used to carry around and add that onto each trip out to the truck I made, that would have been about a thousand extra pounds of toting that barge and lifting that bale. Well, lifting those boxes of books anyway.

You're probably thinking, wow, you much have been exhausted. Nope. Part of it was the endorphin high. But part of it was just that I'm in such better shape now that I've been in 20 years. But that Mac & Cheese was the perfect dinner after that. Not too heavy and cheesy - carby yummy.

So this morning I got up at 3am and drove down to Fayetteville. John got up a little later and followed. He caught up to me around Raleigh. We got the keys to our new rental and started unloading the truck. That backyard may not look too impressive but to us, it's wonderful. It's pretty sandy so not a real lawn but Nicky is going to be ecstatic.



It took about two hours to unload all that stuff and then we headed back home. So a nice 14 hour day with a whole lot accomplished.

It was especially nice added on to my other physical accomplishment of the week. 1.8 pounds lost for a total of 23.8 pounds. Remember back in May before we went on vacation and I couldn't get into my shorts? So last night I tried them on and they fit like a glove. It's such a weird/wonderful feeling to remember putting these shorts on and feeling like I was trying to stuff a sausage into its casing. The little roll that wouldn't get tucked in and wouldn't let me button them. Today, they fit absolutely perfectly.

So before you start your DTG, try on that pair of "skinny" jeans that you haven't gotten into in so long. Believe me, a couple months later when they slide on like silk, you will be like me and the rest of my fellow bloggers, so thankful that you decided to go for it!