Justin and I have been terrible about sticking to our path to get stronger and leaner-mostly neglecting the blog and our own health. I want to talk about our amazing weekend, relaxing, being with friends, and outdoors.
We arrived at Bear Run campground on Friday afternoon to P25a Walk In campsite. The weather in Pittsburgh was horrendous with heavy rain fall and flooding, however just north 40 some miles not a drop of rain or cloud in the sky. Justin and I unloaded the car, as this was a walk in site.
After we were set up our friends arrived and set up camp. We spent the afternoon into late evening hanging out, talking, and cooking mountain pies, steak, and pasta. There were many adult beverages, laughs and hammock swings.
Saturday I was really feeling the effects of to many adult beverages, not enough sleep and the heat. Breakfast was fantastic, bacon, eggs and delicious vegetables, and potatoes. Camp fire meals are tasty. Later in the afternoon more friends arrived! We spent the rest day in Hammocks and camping fold chairs traveling between the two camp sites-even though I was not in good shape and just wanted to crawl into a ball and sleep for hours-I powered though the disastrous state I had created from too much fun the night before.
Sunday morning, no one wanted to get up and face the day because we all knew that camping would be over and we had to go back to being adults. But eventually we all arose and started making breakfast and tearing down camp. We made an amazing campfire meal of breakfest tacos, catering to both the meat and non-meat eaters.
One thing i was introduced to is turkish coffee by our great friend Nina. The coffee beans are ground finer than espresso and placed into an interesting looking pot, which is pictured. You let the coffee rise 3 times-as each time it rises you remove it from the fire-to allow it to settle back down. She shared her delightful beverage with everyone that was willing to try it. For me, I just had my normal fresh press style coffee with some coconut cream.
Amazing memories, love and gratitude is how I felt after leaving the campground. I will hold those 48 hours near and dear. It is important to spend time with your friends and family and have fun.
But now-it is time to get serious-30 days of strict diet, lifting, sprinting, no drinking and meditating. This will allow us to not make excuses and eat out-which is mostly so unhealthy, establish routines to make better choices and not be lazy about everything when it comes to our health. Here is to a successfully Whole30- I look forward to this journey.
-Jen
