Phase 2, Days 16 and 17

Day 16
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Breakfast: 1 slice ancient grain bread with almond butter-flax meal spread

Midmorning snack: can of V-8

Lunch: yellow and red beet salad; middle eastern dips (hummus & baba ghanoush) with ciabatta and a little olive oil [restaurant meal]

Midafternoon snack: coffee with soymilk

Dinner: mixed greens salad with a little bit of apple; rice pilaf, mixed vegetables and an eggplant-squash torte; fresh fruit plate for dessert [restaurant meal]

Exercise: none

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Whoops! Forgot to record. Very busy day; two fancy meals in a row. The white bread was not SBD, of course... but this restaurant literally had nothing else. The meal as a whole was very low GI, though, so I'm not worrying about it. I wasn't able to exercise last night, and won't be able to tomorrow, either. At some point, I need to get back in the habit. It's just a matter of making it routine.


Day 17
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Breakfast: can of V-8; 2 small chocolate easter eggs from Holland; mug of green tea. (The candy was a gift. I ate two and wisely put the rest in the secretarial pool; they were all gone by the next day, thank God.)

Lunch: jalapeno cornbread with bean salad; black bean soup with a heavily-seeded cracker; a couple bites of beet/yellow bell pepper salad; large hot coffee [eaten at Food Court]

Midafternoon snack: 3 miniature plums; 1/2 oz. pecans

Dinner: hot dog bun filled with sauerkraut and hot mustard; bag of chips; large diet coke [eaten at hockey arena]

Exercise: only vicariously

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Went to a hockey game at Madison Square Garden last night, and had a voucher for a free hotdog, soda and bag of chips. I'm a sucker for a freebie! By far, this is the worst thing I've eaten on the diet. (And I came *this close* to buying a big cup of fries with ketchup. The only thing that stopped me is that the person I went to the game with is also on this diet.) I was hoping they'd have veggie dogs. Believe it or not, some professional sports venues do. The woman behind the counter, God bless her, didn't even blink when I asked for a hot dog with sauerkraut, hold the hotdog.