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Originally Posted by kitteh 
(Also where in Central America did you live, and for how long? I studied in Costa Rica, but only for a month. I'm really jonesing to get back to Central America.)
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Honduras. For a year. I taught at a private bilingual elementary school up in the mountains. I thought about staying longer, but I had student loans that needed to be paid off, and you can't do that when you're earning in Lempiras. I followed the recent coup pretty closely, was rather glad I wasn't there for that! It's such a beautiful area of the world, and the people I met were just terrific, but oh my, the poverty and illness and casual attitude towards life. I wish I'd had more opportunity to travel around, but money and time, money and time. I did explore Honduras a bit, went to El Salvador twice, but that was all. I wanted to go to Belize, but the owners of the school I was working at thought that was such a phenomenally bad idea that they subsidized my plane ticket back to the U.S. I was originally going to travel by bus and then by boat to Belize, and fly out of there when I went back home, but I ended up going straight out of Honduras.
I have not been doing too well on the weight loss front. I am still 121, which is OK, but it's been raining raining raining here, plus it's cold and grey and windy. Not at all pleasant for a walk with the stroller, so I haven't been exercising much.
I am also realizing just how much bread I eat. Easily the equivalent of half a loaf per day. Easily. Is this bad? My husband thinks it is. I know white flour will spike your insulin almost the same as sugar, and I know that's related to fat storage (not to mention a whole host of other things), but I really crave it. Is it so bad if I just eat whole wheat bread? It's not quite as satisfying, but I guess I could do it.
