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Days 54 and 55

For the past two days, I have been in 9 hour meetings at work.  Try not to be jealous.
How I feel.
Anyway, the meetings come with free food (because if you're going to stick a bunch of people in a freezing cold room and make them look at endless PowerPoints and talk about the definition of the word "manager" for hours at a time, you should at least feed them).  And then after the meetings, there are the dinners, where you try to come up with interesting things to say for three hours, despite the fact that you just spent the past 9 hours together.  Eventually, you exhaust all topics of conversation like:

  • That conference room was really cold!
  • That one PowerPoint slide was good.
  • Can you believe how cold the room was?
  • Did we ever really decide on the definition of a "manager?"
  • Tomorrow we should all wear sweaters because the room was cold.

But!  The free food is a minefield.
Warning: carbs ahead!
First, let me tell you what I did NOT eat for lunch or breakfast yesterday and today:
-Potato Chips
-Pasta Salad
-Giant Cookies
-Cheesecake
-Little cups of desserty yum that looked amazing
-Bagels and muffins
-Gummy bears shaped like penguins, which I guess would be gummy penguins.

 What I did eat:
-Veggies and fruits: lots of salads, pickles, mixed fruit, delicious breakfast potatoes, veggie soup
-Protein (Andrew!): roast beef, bacon (just a little), scrambled eggs
-Whole Grains: wheat bread
-Other: one baby croissant (I'm only human), a cup of coffee, some tic tacs

 PLUS, during the majority of the breaks, I went outside for a walk with Coworker Linzi, who is pretty and skinny and looks like Jennifer Aniston.  During this morning's 10 minute break, I went and lifted weights in the gym (what--you've never seen a woman in a dress and heels doing chest flies?).  And I even got up before work and did 15 minutes of treadmill.  Linzi also gets a Shame Squad Prize for running 3 miles on the treadmill last night after drinking two glasses of wine at dinner.
Jennifer is proud of you Linzi.
Dinner has been a little more challenging (i.e. dinner has free alcohol), but both nights I have gotten fish and veggies.  I have been a little bad with the bread/appetizers, but have done okay with just having a few bites of dessert.  There might also be a half bottle of red wine in my trunk. Just sayin'.

 Today I am thankful for my bed, and I am going there now.
Yay, bed!

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