Day 9 HCG Diet / Weigh In

To much of my surprise, as I stepped on the scale today, it showed the dreaded number of 156.8...STILL! AAAAHHHH.. I'm getting quite frustrated because I had to deal w/so much temptation yesterday. My inlaws invited us for a late lunch and of course, my mother in law, being the awesome cook that she is, made a fabulous fried chicken and mash potatoes with gravy and cucumber and garden tomato salad... drool as I"m typing right now.. BUT that's not it.. she made this double fudge, extra moist, chunky chocolate cake with chocolate frosting.. and while everyone was eating or more like pigging out in front of me, I was eating an orange, sliced. Yes, an orange. I even had to feed the cake to my 2 kids who were starting to make piggy noises as they were eating the cake.. uhggg! The torture! It kinda made me mad though that everyone was enjoying such a delicious lunch and I had only an orange because I had an early lunch like at around 12 and not their late lunch at almost 2! How annoying.. anyway, I was feeling pretty good though despite my annoyance that I was the only one that was significantly losing weight at that lunch table while everyone else was gonna gain like 2 lbs after all that heavy food. Dang it, I'm determined to win at this! I don't know why I'm stalling, except maybe for the fact that I'll have my TOM (time of month) soon and perhaps I'm just bloated and retaining water. I must be, there's no other answer to it.. I've been following the book to the T. Even drinking more than 10 cups of water, more like 11 or 12 yesterday and going out into the sun for a while so the Vit. D could absorb and help my metabolism. Anyway, after this retarded stall, I hope I loose like 5 lbs right away! ANYWAY, thanks for hearing me out. I hope this isn't discouraging for those that are on this diet as well, it's just a stall and it'll pick up again, I know it! I've heard from so many ppl that this happens so I'm not too discouraged! It just sux when ur in those shoes! OK, well I didn't take a pic of my dinner last night, I was in too much of a hurry to get my poor little kids to bed since they're both sick w/a cold. Oh, did I mention I'm going on vacation in a few days and they're both sick???!!  LOL It seems like every time there's an event going on they're sick or I'm sick.. but we're STILL going! Ok, so here is the pic of my lunch yest. I had an extremely delicious steak that I sprinkled with McCormick's Steak Seasoning grinder and McCormick's Smokey Pepper and crushed garlic on all sides. Oh, I've started to use a meat mallet to tenderize all my meats and to make them appear bigger. THen I put them on the George Foreman grill and  grilled until it was juicy and done. PERFECTION! This seasoning is awesome!! I totally love it, although be careful not to put too much or it can be over powering and too peppery! I over seasoned the chicken I had for dinner w/the same seasoning and wow, it was too peppery! I also had grilled asparagus w/my chicken for dinner as well. So after my steak lunch I go to my inlaw's and eat my orange, sliced w/stevia, it was pretty good! Oh and I also had 3 small strawberries after dinner too. OK, here is the pic of lunch.
                                                         Grilled Steak and Asparagus