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November 9, 2006
When Great Restaurants Happen To Good People
Yesterday was an example of a day when nearly everything that can go wrong, does go wrong.
I ate my nice eggwhite, flax oil, brewers yeast, nonfat cheese, and hot sauce breakfast in the morning, and set off for Scranton with my co-worker Susan and a megamuffin in my purse. (to be clear, Susan was in the passenger seat of my car, not in my purse.) At lunchish time, we stopped at a PA turnpike stop and I got some mustard at the fixins bar to put on my megamuffin, which I ate in the car. 209 calories, 20.9% of the RDA of everything. Planned to finish my lunch off with a Subway Club salad once we got to our destination.
We pulled up to the gas station with the Subway inside it. Closed. Under construction. No lights, cones blocking off the parking lot.
No salad.
No worries, thought I. I've just had a megamuffin, and we'll have an early dinner at around 4:30 at the Ruby Tuesday's. Besides, Luke had purchased a vegetable tray and a fruit tray to serve at the meetings, so I chowed down on celery, grape tomatoes, melon and blueberries as a snack.
Then Edward announced that we would all be going out after the last meeting for dinner to celebrate the election victories of the night before. Going out to one of my favorite restaurants on earth. Therefore, no one was to eat until after the last meeting, which would end shortly after 8 pm.
Hmmmm. Part of my CR philosophy is to allow space for such celebratory dinners at wonderful restaurants that serve high quality food. I plan for them, and I eat less for a few days in preparation. I'm making these meals out less and less frequent, but I don't think I'd ever want to give them up. So theoretically, I was fine. But I hadn't planned for this surprise celebration by saving up calories, and while I was under from the missing Subway Club at lunch, I wasn't *that* much under.
So here's what I did: I rejoiced in heavenly bliss when the waiter announced that the catch of the day was sea scallops served over steamed seasonal vegetables! I ordered that, with a spinach salad as an appetizer. We shared three desserts between five people, so I had a bit of dessert but not much.
Not a nutritional disaster, but over calories, so I'll be going lower for the next few days to make up for it. It's about the average, in the end, so a night or two out won't kill me... as long as I bounce right back.
Posted by april at November 9, 2006 7:05 PM
Comments
The brussel sprout soup was great. Thanks for the recipe. Even better if put in the blender.
Posted by: Katrina at November 13, 2006 7:56 PM