Non-scale victory!

Yesterday was our last big hoorah of fall break. We have actually had a really great week, but today is pretty much back to reality. I am tired but my house needs cleaned very very badly :)

So late yesterday afternoon, we got in the car and drove to Flagstaff. I had a gift certificate for Black Bart's Steakhouse that I wanted to use, plus we thought taking Nate to the observatory would be lots of fun.

The dinner was fabulous and the music was awesome! Nate had a great time! I ordered a very healthy menu option of shrimp and vegetable kebabs. Should have taken a picture...it was that good :) I knew I wanted dessert last night so Jim ordered the blackberry cobbler and Nate the chocolate cake. I had 3 bites of cake, and 2 of the cobbler. I was perfectly satisfied with that. I just needed a couple of tastes.

After dinner we headed up to the observatory and saw telescope views of the moon and Jupiter. Very cool. I didn't realize that until we got home last night that I had a major non-scale victory. We had to stand in line to see Jupiter for about 40 minutes. 3 weeks ago, standing that long would have made my lower back hurt plus my knee would have been achy. It didn't even occur to me until I crawled into bed that neither of those things happened. YES! It is amazing to think that I have spent the last 7 months of inactivity in an almost constant state of some form of discomfort. And yesterday...it was not there!!!!

My body is so happy to be active again and eating "good" foods and it's rewarding me. It is sad that I almost missed the reward...but I am glad that I recognized it for what it was :)