Hello everyone — it’s been a little while since I’ve last posted. For that I’m sorry. I was out of the office on Friday, leaving out of town for a special event for which my fiancee and I volunteered. We stayed out through Sunday. Then back in the office yesterday. But, I just wasn’t able to post last Thursday or yesterday.
Anyway, I’ve been a bad, bad boy. This is the first real trip I’ve taken since being on this new diet, and I have to admit that it was a train wreck. That came on the heels of binging Thursday night on a pizza — a real pizza cooked in the oven, of which I ended up eating half of it. The one upshot — it was thin crust.
I was able to regain my composure for Friday throughout the morning and for the morning snack. Then I skipped lunch since I was on the road driving and couldn’t eat anything. I also skipped the afternoon snack, so by the time dinner rolled around, I was hungry! We went to a well known national Chinese food restaurant, and I tried to not only pick something economical but also somewhat healthy. The choice was double fried noodles with beef and vegetables. There was a lot of it, but the big decision was what to do with it. If I only ate what I was supposed to, I couldn’t take it with me so it was going to be wasted, and we’d have spent all of that money on nothing. I couldn’t see the sense in the that. So, I ate it all
Then to make matters worse, we went to a famous fondue restaurant to top everything off with a white chocolate dessert. It was unbelieveably fantastic but also not good for me! At least there was some fruit I ate with it, so I guess this made it a little more healthy …. right?
Then came Saturday morning — ate at our favorite little French bistro, which we did again on Sunday morning. Now, to my credit, on Saturday morning I walked in a 5k event. We went to a pizza joint that night, and we split a pizza and a spinach and artichoke dip. I really wanted a beer but passed on it since I couldn’t justify the calories. Becuase I was feeling so guilty, we walked another 50 minutes around the parking lot of the mall we were at — we were quite a sight to be seen. At least we helped augment security by keeping an eye on things.
Next came Sunday. I already mentioned breakfast. There was no lunch. Then we went to another famous Japanese restaurant, and I had lots of stuff — soup, salad, shrimp, vegetables, fried rice and chicken. Whew! The funny thing though was that I wasn’t stuffed. That’s not good though. Then, my fiancee has wanted for a long time now a special dessert she loves from a well-known steakhouse that serves excellent desserts. In fact, they have wonderful ones that are flambeed tableside. She wanted bananas foster. Of course, since she was getting a show, I couldn’t let her be the only one to have all of the fun. So, I ordered cherries jubilee.
What a show! Not bad with all of that liquor. The nasty part was when they took one of those really big spoons you use to stir soups and stews with, and stuck it in the sugar canister and brought it out fully loaded with sugar. That went directly into the dish and onto my hips! The hot sweet and tasty concoction was served up with some vanilla ice cream to boot!
Well, reality settled in yesterday alth0ugh I had a rough landing. Because we arrived so late Sunday night back from our trip, I had no time to get ready for Monday. In fact, by the time the morning rolled around, I called in telling them I’d be a few hours late so I could catch up on my sleep. I had four graham crackers for the morning snack. Then my boss and I went to one of those nasty buffets that cost lots of money but the food sucks. You know the type. I tried to do the best I could and managed fairly well, but just ate way too much.
I had a huge salad — good. I had about 10 strawberries and one orange — kind of good but not really (it was too much). Then, on to the meat, etc. I had one scoop of corn, a cup of chicken noodle soup (since it was cold and rainy), one small fillet of fish and a large spoonful of pot roast along with a wheat roll. I wasn’t full, but nevertheless, it was more than required. Then, even though I had a reasonable dinner, my fiancee enticed me into having some ice cream — not a good idea.
I need to put on the breaks in a serious way. It’s so easy for things to escalate and get out of hand. I’ll be traveling again on Nov. 9-11 and facing the same issues again. I need to come up with a better game plan. What happened before didn’t work like it was supposed to. Plus, I injured my ankle yesterday so I’m not entirely sure if I’ll be able to walk much this week. We’ll have to see.
My world is crashing down around me — not really. Just trying to show a little drama.
Talk to you tomorrow. Until then,
Be well and eat healthy!
Robert M.
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