Oregon Coast- One Beach at a Time

A couple of weeks ago our youth group from church took a trip to the coast. This is the 4th beach on the Oregon Coast that I have seen during a youth activity. Maybe if I stay in this calling long enough I'll get to see the whole Oregon Coast.

This last trip we went to Newport and stayed in a yurt. This is my style of camping. Although, since David came along I stayed in the tent with him. Oh well.

We had a blast. We made it to the beach just in time for sunset and made our own campfire girl scout fashion since the guys weren't there yet. Not too shabby for a bunch of city girls! Our hot dogs roasted and our marshmallows burned just right.

Poor David and Joe (male leaders to keep us safe... David did tell everyone they had to fight off bears all night) had to listen to a bunch of girls squeal and giggle all night in the yurt. David says it's good birth control.... I don't think I'll be inviting him along on another young women trip!

The next day we headed to the beach to fly kites and play bocce ball. Then on to the Yaquina Lighthouse, the Interpretive Center and the little town of Newport. The girls had so much fun, and quite honestly, so did I. One of the perks of having a small youth group is getting to take these mini trips.

Sweets Free

As a leader in Young Women's I felt it was only fair that I worked on personal progress along with the young women, so the past two weeks I have been working on the word of wisdom focusing mainly on my sweet intake. As many of you know, I LOVE sweets. So, it is a major sacrifice to cut desserts and candy from my diet for a day, let a lone a couple of weeks.

Let me give you a breakdown of a normal day in the life of Gina:

Eat a meal

Crave sweets

Eat Sweets

Decide I need an extra helping of sweets.

Eat the extra helping.

Eat a meal

Crave sweets

Eat Sweets...

You get the point.

I have officially gone almost two whole weeks without any sweets (as long as you don't count the first couple of days when I was finishing off my Fiber One bars with chocolate :) ). I am debating on extending this journey for a whole month, but I'm not quite sure if my body can take it. I think it has gone into shock. I might actually have gained weight during this experiment. Is that possible? David said my body thinks I am starving, since I do not ever skip sweets, so it is starting to hoard whatever I take in.

Surprisingly I am doing much better than expected. I have been been at several activities/parties where others have been devouring desserts and have not felt even so much as an urge. I guess miracles do happen!

But let's be honest, I am not giving up sweets for ever.