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Day 32

Today was weigh-in day, and...




I lost 2.4 pounds.  Yay for controlled weight loss!


Yesterday I spent the morning with one of my pretend friends, Ann Hathaway.  (Also real friends Brent and Brooke.)
I bet she does a lot of cardio.
I was a little worried when they started checking bags at the movie theater, because I had contraband apples, whole wheat bread, and water in my bag.  But the nice theater manager didn't seem to care about my outside food and drink, because I didn't have explosives.  I get the whole "movie theaters make money from their concessions" thing, but look, Regal Cinemas: when you start selling non-crap food, I would be happy to pay $5 for a piece of fruit from you.  I did have about a cup of popcorn, but with no butter, and I went all Spanish-inquisition on the concessions worker about how they made it. (Props to him--he was very knowledgeable.)


Tell me how you make your popcorn!
Late lunch was at the wine kitchen, where I resisted wine!  And cheese!  And bread!  I tried the mussels (I have never had them before) and happily liked them.  Oysters are still my favorite bivalve, but the bowl of mussels/chorizo/onions/potatoes/broth was delicious.  Then I had a salad, and then a delicious, delicious chocolate ball.




Dinner was chips and salsa, then half a bean burrito with a tiny bit of rice.  It was a very salty day, so I made sure that I had 12 glasses of water/unsweetened tea to make sure I didn't turn in to a pillar of salt.


If I ever got a tattoo, it'd be of the Morton's Salt girl.  For reals.

In conclusion...
Blog all the food? Yes.
Measure all the things? Look, it's hard to measure things when you're eating out.  But I did measure the teaspoon of olive oil I put on my bread.
Do all the cardio? No. :(  New challenge for this starting tomorrow though.

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