*Sigh* Just waiting...

Aug 24, 2009

So since my last post, I got down to 240.9 on August 15th and I've lost nothing since then. And why do you ask is breaking into the 230's so important??  Because at 239, I will have lost 100 lbs from my peak early in 2009.

I know why the scale hasn't moved of late (or I think so). Aunt Flo arrived in the early hours of Aug 16th. I watched the scale all week and I was up & down between 242 and 240.9 so I was fully expecting to be below 240.9 by the 20th-21st of August. But it hasn't happened. I haven't been really watching my protein goals closely but I've still been working on eating protein first and I believe I've been getting in a good 50-55g/day. 

On Thursday Aug 20th, one of my sons had major orthopedic surgery and we spent the day in hospital waiting for news (it was a 6 hr operation). I ate in the caf there but I know i made good food choices - roasted chicken with snap pea pods (maybe 5-6 pea pods after about 1.5-2oz of chicken breast). I stayed with Andrew overnight at the hospital and I had a turkey wrap that night for dinner. (2oz max of turkey breast on a wrap with some light ranch dressing)  Did a lot of walking and stair climbing to pass the time, etc.

Friday, I had a boiled egg for breakfast (it came on his tray) with 2 pcs of bacon. I had the other half of my turkey wrap for lunch and we had BBQ chicken thighs for dinner that night at home (my husband was on night shift so I went home to be with my 3 other kids and my parents who are in town helping out) with half a cob of fresh corn.

Andrew was discharged today (he's in a hip spica cast for the next 6-8 wks) finally and we have him at a respite home for the next few days to transition to home so it will be lots of going back and forth still.  I don't know if the stress of all this is keeping me from dropping weight or what's going on. This morning was so disheartening to see 241.8 on the scale again (started at 242.6 but I zeroed and the next 3 weights were all the same at 241.8). *sigh* I know it will happen but I was sooooooooooooo excited to have hit my century club and now I'm just stuck.

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