The Plateau

Day 88. I think he sees it now. I thought as much last week but, for sure, this morning confirms it. 107.1 107.1 106.9 107.1 It’s consistent for sure. It’s a plateau. He forgets I can see that he’s gotten away from what he was doing. He’s eating a little less carefully, his exercise levels have dropped. I can see why too. Disheartened after the first week without any weight loss, out of kilter for the second —he knows he exercised a lot more but also ate more cake— and this last week has been a complete drop off. If anything I could feel the sigh of mild relief that it wasn’t an even higher number. I can also tell he thinks he should be further down the path, after all his prediction numbers have him at 104.3 today, but he knows that likely wasn’t manageable. I hope he knows this is just a blip. Hope he takes some comfort from the fact he hasn’t put a lot more weight on, essentially he’s stayed the same. It’s just a plateau. It happens. He’s popped me back to my storage place now but…