Back on track
OK, Food Diary, I tried very, very hard over the weekend to get back on track. I went for a workout on Saturday morning and then came home to get some client work done. Instead, got into an argument which left me feeling headachey and out of sorts. So napped, and then worked. I can’t even remember what I ate on Saturday. I just remember that I was feeling nauseous and chilled, before I napped, and worked till all hours to make up for my nap. Net effect: down 1 lb.
On Sunday, I had a low-carb wrap with protein, and went off to volunteer with the Feed the Hungry project, where Jews and Muslims get together at a Downtown East Side church to cook for, and serve, a couple of hundred homeless people. (Yeah, the irony of volunteering to handle food and not touch it isn’t lost on me. Had lovely conversations with a publisher and an architect, and ran food to tables. Oddly enough, I have no urge to eat when I’m around food all the time. Cooking is a sure-fire way to kill my appetite. But I did drink my litre of water before lunch.
Then, went to my first book club meeting, where we were scheduled to discuss Fall on Your Knees - only I turned up a week early, it seems. So I stayed for lunch - a take-off on huevor rancheros but with way more taco strips in it than I’d expected - and refamiliarized myself with the book. After that, a trip to the office to do some work with a colleague, and another litre of water. After dropping her off, stopped at the grocer near her to buy a package of matzahs - not for me, but to send to my penpal in Japan as a special request. I think that having the carbs at lunch made me headachey and hungry, so I grabbed a half-dozen non-coated chicken wings before heading home so I wouldn’t be ravenous later. Dinner was a bit of salad and low-carb meatloaf, and some tea, before finishing up a bunch of work. I didn’t think I did that badly during the day, but eating after 6 PM is always tricky. The net effect was: no weight loss (no gain, either). Disappointing, but I’m not going to let it get me down. Onward and upward.