Still Hovering

Ok...I am still hovering at 201. This is very frustrating for 2 reasons. One is that it has not taken this long to drop a pound or two since I started the diet and second I am so close to my next goal of getting below 200 that I can taste it. I know that it is common to plateau after losing a good amount of weight so I am not discouraged...just impatient. I started going to the gym yesterday and I went today so hopefully that will jump start me again.

Things are going well on the home front as well. I got home yesterday and Steve said that both he and the babies (our guinea pigs) have surprises for me. I looked and the babies were on the kitchen table and were standing on a DVD of the movie Juno. I had been asking for it and those thoughtful little piggies got it for me. Hee hee. Then Steve pulled out a big bouquet of flowers for his surprise for me. The bouquet was full of lilies and gerber daisies (my favorite).

What a sweet husband I have. I know that he will be a wonderful daddy to our human babies someday. Yay!

Slowing Down

I think that the weight loss is slowing down a bit. I have really been dropping weight faster than I ever have before. It is official that I am down 20 pounds in 1 month. I am down to 201 and I am hovering there. My doctor told me that I can gradually reintroduce carbs back into my diet so the other day I had some strawberries and then the next day I had gone up 2 pounds (probably some sort of water weight). But it does make me nervous to have these carbs. Today I also had half of a whole wheat bagel. We will see what kind of difference this makes on the scale this week. But I have stayed basically at 201 for several days now and the scale has not budged (or gone the other way). I guess I am just going to have to play around with different foods to see how they affect the scale and my progress.