A week after the peak . . .

It's been a week since the peak, and I'm down to 200.8 lbs. -- a loss of 2.8. I'm not as happy about that as I have been about prior weight losses because I'm still above 200. In other words, I haven't lost all the weight I put on nine days ago.

I went to Jenny Craig today for the first time since I went above 200 on my bathroom scale. I hit my high there. I'm not even sure what it was -- I didn't memorize it. I guess I'm more focused on my bathroom scale lately.

Unfortunately, I did not eat well today. After Jenny Craig, I went through the Pizza Hut express drive-thru near my house and got a personal pan pizza/breadstick combo. When I got home, I returned a call to my friend, "EB," who wanted to go to lunch at Moe's Southwest Grill because he had a coupon, and, well, he's unemployed right now. (As am I, still, but that's another post.) And it's a buy-one, get-one-free coupon. I said sure, let's go. I hadn't eaten the pizza yet, and considered putting it in the microwave. But, instead, for reasons I still don't completely understand, I chose complete decadence and ate the pizza before he arrived. INSANE, isn't it? I put the breadsticks in the microwave for later. And then I hid the other evidence from my friend by throwing it away. Eating in secret -- never healthy.

So when EB arrived, we decided to walk to Moe's because it was such a nice day. I knew I couldn't eat a burrito, but instead of trying a salad, I tried a quesadilla. It might be a little healthier than other quesadillas, but it didn't taste as good as I've had at other local restaurants. (No, I'm not including the Taco Bell one I had last week, but that one does have a decent sauce on it.) And I ate the colorful tortilla chips that came with it.

Amazingly, my stomach did not ache or explode. (I had not eaten anything before I went to Jenny Craig, so that might explain it.) We walked around the shopping center some more before going back to my house. I did a lot of physical chores around the house, nothing requiring too much exertion, but physically active nonetheless. Meanwhile, EB worked on my computer. After he left a few hours later, I had the breadsticks for "dinner." Then I walked for 3o minutes before walking to Meijer for a few items. Then I came back and snacked again. Ugh. I'm nervous about what will be on the scale tomorrow. . .

11:17pm -- P.S. After writing most of the last post, my browser froze up, and I thought I'd lost the whole post and the time I spent composing it. (While I realize this post is no great work of literature, I still would have been disappointed to have lost it.) Fortunately, however, I was able to recover the post when I logged back into Blogger with one click of the mouse. My opinion of Blogger has now increased. Thank you, tech guys!