No PreCheating

I'm getting back into my normal routine after the all day planning meeting with the board yesterday.  As I blogged about last week, I was concerned about the food offerings and the few choices that would be available.  I had a notion of what was to be served and come up with a bit of a game plan. 

So...Friday night as I was contemplating the next day I began an epic battle in my mind.  The Little Voice was there taunting me and The Voice of Truth was battling back.  The thoughts went something like this:

TLV:  "You might as well eat tonight since you have no choices tomorrow."
TVoT:  "What has that got to do with it?  If anything, you should cut back tonight to make up for potential issues tomorrow."

TLV:  "If they have cookies tomorrow you can eat a peanut butter one because they have protein."
TVoT:  "Are you nuts?  They also have white flour & sugar."
TLV:  "So does the bread on those sandwiches that they're serving for lunch"
TVoT:  "I'm not planning to eat the bread if I can help it."

TLV: "Remember those Girl Scout Cookies in the freezer?  Eat them now.  You have a good excuse."
TVoT:  "How about taking those cookies to the function?"
TLV:  "Now you're the crazy one.  No one is eating those cookies besides me!!!  Besides there isn't enough to go around."
TVoT:  "OK, OK, calm down."


Even though, I did not take the cookies to the function, I did take fruit.  In fact, I wondered why I hadn't thought of that before.  We car pooled to the site which was about an hour from the office.  As we were getting in the van, I felt it necessary to explain my extra bag, so I said I'd brought some grapes & oranges to share.  One of the other women had made muffins to share and several had brought their own snacks.  So, I didn't feel at all concerned about walking in with my bag.

For breakfast there was an assortment of carbs like muffins & donuts.  I'd eaten my Ezekiel bread toast, so I was fine skipping the whole buffet, since I'm not a coffee drinker, I really had no reason to be over there.

For lunch they'd ordered sub sandwiches and four salads just in case anyone wanted one of those instead!  I was so happy to see that ice burg lettuce.  The salad amounted to a fairly large amount of ice burg lettuce, maybe two spinach leaves, and some deli ham & turkey.  I think it was supposed to be a chef salad.  There were no tomatoes which made me happy and I skipped the salad dressing because I'm really not a fan.  As I was walking back to the table to eat, I could feel a little smile on my face as I realized I was glad that I had not pre-cheated.


There was also bottled water in abundance, so I chugged plenty of that.  (I also positioned myself in the room where I could slip out to the restroom!) 


When I got home after nearly a 12 hour day, I was tired and 65MD offered to just go out, so as to make it easy on myself.  I thought that was not really the easy way out and there was an abundance of good food, easily prepared right in my kitchen.  I chose to do that.  Overall it was a good eating day.  I went to bed, happy with my choices for the day.  It was a good feeling.


BTW, I shared the grapes & oranges, and everyone was glad I brought them.  In fact, I didn't bring any home.  I like it when that happens too.