Checking in a bit late for the week, and for the first time in a month, but better late than never.

I've been stalled at 305-ish for three weeks. Grrrrrrr. FINALLY, I seem to have broken it. This month has been horrible on many levels. Dad's been sick, we're still working on buying the house, brother's drinking landed him in the hospital, but it doesn't seem to have made a difference, and work has been INSANE. Very sick kids, even for us, and lots of them. I missed my training appointments three weeks this month: one because illness, second because my uterus has awoken now that I'm 100 pounds lighter and it hates me, and third because I got off work that morning completely exhausted and non-functional from three nights of trying to keep someone alive with a marginally functional heart and non-functioning kidneys. There have been carbs. I've missed vitamins (particularly my calcium, because 3x/day is hard when trying to keep above child alive and sleeping for the hours you aren't). I've missed protein goals on more days than I care to think about. I've been drinking too much caffeine (unsweet tea, but still caffeine). It's been bad.

But, I'm resetting. Despite everything, I've kept my portions down, avoided drinking empty calories, and tried to be active, even when I didn't make the gym. At least I didn't gain. I've had all my meds and vitamins the last two days, and I hit my protein goal for both days. I did have 1/2 of a glass of plum wine tonight (sushi dinner with friends, my first alcohol after surgery, and sipped verrrrrry slowly), but I made sure I got my protein and avoided rice. Gym is tomorrow. I made sure I came back here. Nearly six months out, and I'm halfway to Onederland (my ultimate "dream" goal). I can do it, I just need to get back to my basics.

HW: 408

LW: 305

TW: 300

PS: Having some minor body issues. My breasts are especially depressing me. Don't get me wrong; the weight loss is worth it, and I did expect it....it's just that looking like A game-day football at Gillette Stadium gets me down a bit at times. At least there's plastics!

Agreed here too. These boards are even more important to my success than the surgery. The surgery was the tool and OH is my owners manual. I know I wouldn't be using it right without the manual.

I'm the exact same when it comes to 'lowest adult weight' too. I saw 220 very briefly in my 30's and was wearing smaller clothes then than I remember wearing in high school. I do remember being 15 wearing size 16 jeans (in my world at the time that was the biggest size I could find at the mall) and worrying about what I would wear as I felt myself growing out of them.

Thanks! In fact, I think I owe you personally an extra thank you for my recent success. You asked about my menu awhile back and specifically the lack of substance in the morning. It got me thinking about it, reading and I started adding protein to my morning coffee. I wasn't seeing the relation at first but since then I've been having great weekly losses and the only other thing I'm doing differently is walking less so.... Thank you!!

yes, I don't remember being this weight...but since I knew I was 215 at the end of 7th grade (fat camp) I figure I had to have passed it by in elementary school... A little frightening to think about...

I've been away from these boards for a few weeks, I know that I'm always saying I'm stressed out lol. But I've been getting ready for my work's FY end closing so I've been putting in a lot of hours and then I had to put my cat to sleep about a week and a hal*****he combination of those two things haven't been great for me, I've been stress eating on and off. I'm working on making better choices right now.

HW: 377

TW: 138

Goal: To maintain below 145