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Hello Y'all,

I am back from my trip to Kentucky and had a pretty decent time..I arrived home at 230 this morning . The camp was very nice and the trails spectacular.. I am a little disappointed that I did not get to ride more then I did but there can always be another time. I did not make a dent on the trails that are there, that is how many there are but all in all I probably rode horseback about 40-50 miles in total. However, I am really happy with how things went with riding. I got to build up a bunch of confidence in my horse riding skills and that was most important. I felt great on the horse and was really able to keep up and most importantly stay on. Unlike someone else I know.. No names mentioned here... My horse T-bone was really trying to be stubborn and get his own way but I was confident enough to keep him in control ..(for the most part anyways) This trip really did allot for my ego and it felt great as I know that before I lost all the weight I would have never been able to handle this trip. The horse riding and work would have been way too much for both me & the horses. I could not have done 1/2 of what I was able to do this weekend. Right down to the fact that I actually got off my horse a few of times mid trail to adjust things and too just take a break.. Before I would NEVER get off once I got on, as without a step stool getting on was impossible.

The weather was very nice but WAY TOO HOT.. When I left Michigan,,the weather said that it was never supposed to be over 82 on any day in KY .. Well they were so wrong, it was 94 everyday with the exception of Sunday and that was crazy weather. I was actually gonna stay an extra day but the residual from Hurricane Ike showed up and knocked out power so there was no water supply for the horses or ourselves. The wind was gusting up to 60 miles an hour and with the dust and flying branches it got kinda crazy.. We were really back in the middle of no where and some of the roads were impassable due to down trees and such so we decided it was best to head on out. As realistically it could have been too dangerous to ride.

This trip was also allot of work.. It is a whole lot harder to take care of 3 horse out of your own element. Because of the heat I think things were made to be even harder. I started out fine but by Saturday evening I was wiped out. I had not been taking any of my vitamins, as it seems that I was just too busy to bother and well a barely ate anything either. I was too busy working and trying to squeeze in everything I wanted to do and stupid me when I did eat I was in a hurry and ended up not chewing like I was supposed to and the having to vomit because I ate to fast and to big of bites. I was really lacking protein and I think that was really taking a toll on me as well as I was probably seriously dehydrated. I did drink a ton of water but sweated it out as fast as I drank.

Now because of the trip I did not weigh in on Friday but did a special weigh in Weds.. I knew without a Shadow of a doubt that I probably lost a bunch of weight while I was gone this weekend so I weighed in this morning.. And guess what? I was right.. As of this morning I am down -101lbs that is another -6lbs since Weds. But I am NOT making this an official weigh in as because of the circumstances of losing it I may gain some back before official weigh day of Friday.. So everyone keep your fingers crossed that I maintain where I am at right now for Fridays weigh in.

Hope everyone is doing OK and I will talk with you all later..