Summer camping

Summer will be here soon. It is my favorite season. When I was younger my dad bought a small boat and we would go camping almost every weekend at the lake. I loved it. I learned to water ski and tube. My favorite was to ride the tube though. As we grew older the tube rides got a little crazier. It was basically whoever was driving the boat trying to throw me off the tube! This was not an easy task as I rarely fell off but when I did I would pull myself back up on it and go again. My crazy uncle was the most insane boat driver of them all. It felt like you were going about a 100mph behind that boat sometimes. You don’t just fall off the tube when he drives. You tumble, fast. I have also done back flips off the tube, my legs have landed on the rope and had tubes flip over while I was still on it. But I loved it. I could go all day long. But eventually, I started tubing less and less. As I got older and moved out on my own I would also gain weight and not be able to go to the lake as often as I wanted. We still take a week vacation in July and spend it at the lake. The last few years we have gone though I don’t even ski or tube anymore. When I do get up on the skis I can barely go for very long. I’d be exhausted and hurting in no time so I just quit skiing. Getting on the tube was a nightmare. I would have to drop myself onto it from the boat. And if I fell! They would have to pull the tube back to the boat, I would get in the boat and flop back into the tube. My arms didn’t have the strength to pull my weight back up on the tube in the water. Last year I didn’t tube or ski at all. It became to exhausting and troublesome for me to ride. I would just watch everyone else ski and now everyone has started wakeboarding and surfing. I want to try so bad but know I could never get myself up because I don’t have the strength anymore. My favorite past time became a distant memory of the past. My parents and there friends are 10-20 years older than me and have more fun at the lake than I do. This year will be different though. I have lost 19lbs so far and feel so much better already and I hope by July I will have lost more. I do strength training once or twice a week. This year I will be able to ski or tube! Maybe even try surfing or wakeboarding. I know I won’t do as well as when I was a kid or as well as any of my family but at least I can do it again. Then by this time next year my goal is to be able to enjoy the lake like I did when I was a kid. It’s still my favorite place to be but I want to be able to enjoy my time there like I used to. These are the reasons I am trying to lose weight. I want to do the things I used to do and go with my family on more trips to the lake, amusement parks or wherever they go! I will be happy and healthy again!