nino66's Journal, 19 July 2010

Well I am back to work from vacation. Threw caution to the wind on the food plan. Back to it today, or at least I hope. Gained 5.5 lbs. Not as bad as I thought it would be but of course not good either. Enjoyed most of my vacation. Had a great time with my family. Got to spend a couple of good days with my great neices. Took them to a National Park on Tuesday and went with them Thursday to an amusement park. Lot of fun. Didn't get the beach time that I wanted. Either too busy or when I had time it was cloudy/rainy. Then my husband fell Thursday night. He waited to go to the ER until Saturday. He has a compression fracture of the L1. He is in alot of pain and this is going to set him back even further than he was in the first place. I feel like we just can't catch a break. He was actually feeling pretty decent and having a good time last week. We go to the dr. today. I think he wants to go ahead and talk to him about getting the ball rolling for SS disablility. Then to top it off, after waiting 2 1/2 months, the contractor finally wants to start on tearing our kitchen out this week. It needs to be done and I'll be glad when it is all complete and we have been waiting way too long to get it done. But I just don't need the added stress this week. I hope he can get it all done in about a week and not longer. I am worried how I am going to plan my food this week. I am going to try to use the crockpot and grill alot and also keep the microwave somewhere that is easily usuable. I will not have access to the stove. I am hoping we can plug the refrigerator in a room where we can still use it. It is going to be a mess. The floor is falling in so that will all have to be pulled up which also means all the cabinets have to come out. Worried about the mess and the cost. Finances are very tight. Okay done with the poor me crap.

Looking forward to getting back to this WOE. Can't say that I enjoyed eating whatever was handy. Actually made me feel yucky most of the time. But there just wasn't alot of good food choices all the time. I started out trying to preplan but after a while just said the heck with it. Hoping things will jump start after being careless for a few weeks. Since things are such a mess right now at least this WOE is one thing I do have control of.

Hope everything has been going well for all of you. I've missed checking in on you all. Time to get to work!

197.2 lb Lost so far: 22.8 lb.    Still to go: 42.2 lb.    Diet followed poorly.