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September 8, 2005
Pizza Disaster, Triumph at Denny's
I knew it was a mistake to show up hungry to a meeting where the best pizza I've ever had would be served. Pinnochio's of Media, PA, has amazing pizza, and I was attacked by the smell of it while waiting to begin the meeting at 2 pm yesterday. All I'd eaten all day was my eggwhites (I didn't have an am meeting yesterday so I got to embrace the beloved eggwhite in the comfort of my own home.) and a half cup of lowfat cottage cheese. Wow, I was starving. Oooops. Ate pizza. I can't tell you exactly how much pizza I ate because if MR read it, or someone told him about it, he might be so frightened that he would catch the first plane home to come rescue me from myself. And we wouldn't want that to happen now would we? I can assure him that it won't happen again any time soon, and that I will carefully balance out the calories in my remaining meals this week. It would be terrible if he came home to find that I had aged! We have so many fun things to do with our remaining radically extended lifespan.
I felt like absolute crap after eating the pizza. Ugh ugh ugh. Greasy food doesn't sit well with me after CR.
This morning, however, I had an excellent Denny's experience. I asked the chef to not cook the veggies at all, and to cook the eggbeaters in as little oil as possible. What I got back was an omlette with almost no visible grease and some nice crunchy veggies, lightly steamed just from being in the hot omlette, but mostly raw. I think it's safe to count it as the 330 calories it's advertised to be, since as one of my dear readers pointed out, they must account for some measure of oil in the cooking. Thanks to Joey for the suggestion! I try to avoid egg yolks since they are such concentrated sources of saturated fat and cholesterol, but I think I'm all set now with my raw veggie eggbeater omlette! Yea for the Denny's!
Okay, gotta run off to the Ruby Tuesday's for yet another meeting. Salad. More salad. And more salad.
Posted by april at September 8, 2005 8:51 AM
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April, dear girl! Be gentle on yourself! IMO, eating something sinful once in a while won't kill you and obviously, since you felt like crap afterwards, it's not likely that you're about to slide down the slippery slope to eating gak on a regular basis. Glad you've found a solution to the Denny's dilemma. JD :-)
Posted by: Judith at September 8, 2005 12:51 PM