Hi Beth! I have to agree with Kate (Wind) on this one!
First, let's just address the fact that you're trying to eat a VERY low calorie diet - that's niether healthy nor effective in the long term! This has been discussed quite a bit on this board (finess & lifestyle); particularly, HanSolo posted a link to a great article about this a while back. Do some searching and see what you can find (if not let me know and I'll dig up a few good threads for you). Anyway, the long and short of it is that when you eat too few calories, sure you lose some pounds at first, but pretty soon your body realizes that its just not getting the amount of calories it NEEDS, and your metabolism changes to start holding on to every calorie because, basically, it thinks its starving. (And it holds on in the form of fat, btw.) Sooner or later, low cal diets plateau (as you're experiencing) and the weight starts coming back. So my guess is that this slump you're in has less to do with your step mom and more to do with YOUR DIET!
Most women should be eating arond 1800 calories a day. It's totally possible (and the most the desirable way) to lose weight eating that much and exercising.
And second, in my personal opinion overly processed foods, such as those lean cuisine frozen thingys, are in large part to blame for the bulging wastelines of the western world. The best way to get to a healthy weight is to eat HEALTHY - that means no processed junk. Eat whole, nutritious healthy foods! That doesn't need to be difficult at all! Like Kate suggested, cook at the beginning of the week and freeze your own dinners so you can defrost them at the end of a tough workday, instead of those sodium-filled processed ones.
Anyway, hope I didn't offend at all here - just trying to help! 
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Have to agree with Kate on this one...
