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Day 56

I loved the book "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" growing up.  (I also liked a book called "The Baby Beebee Bird," mostly because my mom hated it.)  The premise of the book was that it started raining food, which was cool if it was ice cream, but bad if it was pea soup.


Anyway, yesterday was Sunny with a Chance of Unintentional Carbs.  The day started well enough in the Cold Meeting Room with delicious yogurt, granola, and fruit.  But then, since I can't resist a mini sausage and cheese biscuit, I had one.  The larger-than-usual-breakfast made me not super hungry for lunch, which was low fat chicken soup and a fuji apple chicken salad from Panera.  Now that sounds healthy, but why eat the soup when you can just dunk bread in the broth and then eat the apple chips off the salad?  (In fairness, I did eat the tomatoes, chicken, and some of the lettuce.)

My lunch date was Kiki, and we passed the time while she had IVs by talking about crazy coworkers and/or family members.  But of course, we'd never talk about YOU.
Dinner was...chicken stuff.  I tried to make tortilla rollups, which are wheat rollups stuffed with a mixture of reduced fat cream cheese, fat free cheddar, tomatoes, green onions, and chicken.  Instead we just heated up the chicken stuff and ate it with tortilla chips.  Then I had an amazing cupcake, made by Chris, which was lemon cake with blackberry frosting.  The frosting was AMAZING.

Exercise involved walking to the grocery store with Chris for oranges, cheese, and allergy medicine (of course).  I had three tiny clementines and a few little pieces of cheese.

So not a great day, but not terrible.  I give it a mildly annoyed Scarlett.

"Less carbs tomorrow, my dear."

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