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May 15, 2005
I Never Knew What I Was Missing
Before I got my cooler bag, that is.
I carried it around with me all day yesterday while I travelled from one end of the world to the other. I am amazed at how much peace of mind it gives me to know that I have nice chilled low calorie high calcium food with me at all times. I ate breakfast before leaving for my New Jersey hair appointment, and grabbed an iced coffee at the coffee shop next to the hair salon after getting my hair done. Then I had to drive out to about an hour west of Philly for a meeting at 2 pm. Usually I'd be in a bit of a panic looking for somewhere like a Subway where I could grab food, but now that I have my cooler bag, there was no fear! I stopped at a Turnpike stop and ate an 80 calorie snack pack of cottage cheese, 150 g cherry tomatoes, and 10 g hazelnuts.
A friend whom I hadn't seen in months called and asked if I wanted to meet for dinner, so I put off my date with a good book and a bunch of asparagus and walked to down to a new restaurant in my little town. Had a very nice dinner... ate a salad of grilled shrimp over garlicky greens, and had a few bites of a mushroom ravioli appetizer that we shared. I also took a few bites of the orange sorbet that we got for dessert, which was served in an actual frozen orange. When my friend took the little top off the orange that looked like a cookie and bit into it, he discovered that it was actually the top of the orange peel, frozen! I suggested that he should eat it, as MR says we should eat orange peel because it has limonene and that's good for us. I proceeded to take a bite out of the frozen orange, which was really quite delicious, but my friend didn't follow suit. Oh well. I was glad I had consumed very few Calories earlier in the day so I had the Calories for a dinner out, and while I suspect that I went a bit over 1100, I doubt that I went over 1200 total for the day. Shrimp has so few Calories, and I felt nice and un-full at the end of the meal.
Today is another light Sunday... I had my usual breakfast, and have packed my darling little cooler bag with cottage cheese, yogurt and hazelnuts for work (yes, I am at work on a Sunday). My mom is coming over for dinner tonight and I'm making a whole slew of veggies with flax oil and brewers yeast, so I'm concentrating on getting my calcium at lunch.
I have lots of thoughts provoked by the thought provoking comments of the other day, but work and social life have been so busy that I haven't had an extended period of time to think them all out. I promise I will soon!
Posted by april at May 15, 2005 2:33 PM