Truckin'

what a long, strange trip it's been...

I had lost 25 lbs for our trip to Seattle. I thought I looked fabulous. But in this photo I was sitting, instead of standing, because I had been on my feet about twenty minutes so I was pretty beat. I also didn't want my hanging stomach to show in a photo, it was halfway down my legs and the girth would be obvious, so I sat.

But

goofing around, my husband caught this photo anyway

HOW TO HIDE fat in a PHOTO

and on this cruise, I hid behind a deck chair, put my hand over my chin.

And he said to me, "Patty, think about all the things you would have done on our cruise if you didn't have as much weight to carry around."

So often I felt like a freak of nature. But I kept going.