How much is 30lbs?




Coby and Eddy in The Amazing Maze

 

Today we visited the pumpkin patch at Belluz Farms, a charming little place owned and operated by the very nice Belluz family.  We got a bit of fun exercise walking through the Amazing Maze, a 3+ acre corn maze.  We also weighed a few pumpkins, trying to find one that was precisely 30lbs so we could know exactly what my weight-loss-so-far feels like. 

Leigh holding a 30lb pumpkin

30lbs is heavier than I expected!  I couldn't hold it for more than a minute or so.  Imagine!  A few weeks ago I was carrying the equivalent of that pumpkin everywhere I went – walking around, getting up from a chair, trudging up and down stairs.  If I had to carry that pumpkin up stairs I don't think I could do it.