Going the wrong way...

I've been struggling with my weight lately. The latest challenge was moving into my sister's home, while she and her family were on vacation for 10 days, to care for our Dad. My husband and I got home yesterday. Dad's 88 with major health issues, and he needs encouragement to eat and help to get around. I made many of the foods Mom made when I was growing up, and it's very hard to be constantly providing food for someone with a tiny stomach capacity who has been losing weight he cannot afford to lose while not indulging myself in the tastes and memories of loving family. I gained weight. Due to Dad's schedule, I didn't exercise first thing in the morning, as I usually do, so other than just daily activity, I was not burning the usual calories. Did I eat less? Oh nooooooo.

Saturday we leave for the Washington State San Juan Islands. We may be gone up to 3 weeks. Our boat is a 26 foot long sailboat, so there's not room to exercise if I'm not pulling on lines or jumping around to fix things that get out of order under sail. We hope to get ashore and explore some of the State park islands. As I won't be pushing food on either of us, I hope to come back smaller. In any case, I probably won't have wi-fi access to the internet often, so it may be a while before I'm back here keeping up with my friends.

Thanks to all who have kept in touch with me even though I've been pretty silent online lately. I'll be back! (Maybe with photos.)