There’s nothing like an embarrassing moment in front of your family to put things in perspective, no matter what the issue.  In my case, how much weight I still have to lose became glaringly obvious at a family graduation party this past weekend.

Towards the end of the day, one of my nieces got out her cart and hooked up her draft horse so she could take guests for rides.

It looked like fun and was something I had been wanting to do for a couple of years because she’s given rides at other parties.  But I always felt too fat and thought I would take up too much room in the cart.

But that 57 pounds I had kissed goodbye over the past 11 months had me smug enough to think that I could go for a ride without any embarrassment.

Yeah, right.

My husband and I got in the cart (he’s not exactly skinny either).  My niece graciously moved over as far as she could on the seat and sat on the bar on the edge so that all three of us fit (didn’t find out she was sitting on the uncomfortable metal bar until after our ride was over because she was too nice and too polite to say anything about it).

As the horse took off, our combined weight made the cart fling backwards violently (we didn’t tip but I thought we were going to).   Did that happen on the 10 other rides she had given before ours?  No, but then again, she hadn’t had two “fatties” in her cart at the same time either.

So we got an abbreviated ride, had to lean forward in the cart of alleviate the chances of tipping backwards, and had to walk partway back to our starting point so we didn’t have to take the chance of tipping the cart when the horse went up a small, but steep incline.

Embarrassing is hardly the word for it.

It made me realize that yes, I’ve done a great job with losing weight so far.  BUT, I have a long way to go.

My niece felt bad that our ride wasn’t great and has promised to take us on another one when she gets a “4 seater” cart with 4 wheels instead of 2 (less tippy, more room), which is really sweet of her but even more depressing because reality once again slapped me up side the head and showed me that I’m still too big to fit into some “normal sized” things.

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