I'm sorry that I've been gone for awhile. It has been a rather trying week. I flew out to CA. to be with my father who is 88 years old and is now in the final stages of Alzheimer's. Hospice has been called in and it now looks like it is just a matter of days or at the most a couple of weeks.

We were originally supposed to leave for CROSS on Monday, but we had to cancel awhile back because of my job situation. At the time I was pretty upset about it, but now I am glad that I was able to be there to see him. Everything happens for a reason!

Anyway, inspite of the stress the scale still moved downwards and I was especially surprised at how much. I thought that stress usually makes you gain weight, but I found that I was down 4 lbs from last week and 6 from when I last posted. I am now down 138 lbs and I'm only eight pounds from pre-maintenance and 18 lbs from my goal weight!

On another good note. I hadn't told my family about my weight loss and my brother almost walked right past me at the airport when he came to pick me up Sunday night.