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November 29, 2005
Brief CR Panic
I brought my lunch, as usual, carefully and lovingly constructed by MR. Things are absolutely crazy at my office today, and I haven't had a moment to think... I am only writing now because I'm waiting on the final revisions from a co-worker on a flyer. Meanwhile, there are several substantive issues that my co-worker and I need to talk about, and our efforts to talk this morning have been thwarted by the ongoing ringing of phones and arising of crises. We have an important meeting to officiate at together at 4 pm about 45 minutes away, and we have to grab some time in here somewhere to plan. So I asked when we were going to meet, he said, "We'll go out for lunch and talk about everything then."
I paniced. Deer in headlights panic. What about my lunch? What about my CR? What am I to do? I've been doing so well, I don't want to blow it now. But we're in a big hurry, this co-worker has never brought his lunch in the eight years I've known him, and I can no longer suggest a picnic at my house because I moved and no longer live in the town where I work. It would be a little far to go to my current house, though MR would welcome us and it would be very nice to get to steal a quick kiss from my Orange One in the middle of the day. But alas, it's too far, so I'm stuck with going out. Here's my post-panic plan.
I suggest that we to go the RT (that's Ruby Tuesday's for those of you who are new to the blog) where I know I can get a great salad with cottage cheese. I eat only veggies and cottage cheese with a counted out number of olives for fat. [Look at me! I'm forcing myself to eat some fat, even in the midst of a crisis! I've come a long way, baby.] Then I'll eat my quotidian lunch for dinner, which will work out since I'll be at work till just before dinner time and have just enough time to prepare a simple dinner for MR but can save time by having my dinner already composed. I have enough calories in my quotidian dinner that if I eat my lunch for dinner, I'll definitely be safe even if lunch is accidentally high at the RT. And I'll get plenty of veggies, protein, calcium and fat.
Of course, I run the risk of shorting myself on calories, but since I was over during the holidays, a day or two that's short won't hurt me.
This seems like a good solution to a less than ideal situation, but life is full of less than ideal situations, and often times the success of our CR practice depends on how well we can deal with them. I pride myself on being able to work my CR into a busy, crazy lifestyle, filled with work, fun, friends, and organizations for which I coordinate things.
I take a moment, yet again, to be grateful for the fact that the person with whom I share my life and my home (and my kitchen!) does CR. That makes everything so much easier. These little bumps in my CR road are nothing compared to what most of you face at home. My home is an island of nutritional tranquility, the land of organic skim milk and eggwhites, a beacon to zoneless wanderers in the desert of gak...
Okay, the flyer's done... gotta run!
Posted by april at November 29, 2005 12:21 PM