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Pizza, nachos, and meatballs!

Weight last week: 155.4
Weight this week 155.2

 It's not a disaster of Camilla proportions, but it's not Kate.  We'll give it a Sophie.
"WHY ARE YOU NOT EATING BREAKFAST AND DRINKING ENOUGH WATER?!"
I'm going to blame last week half on myself and half on the city of Philadelphia.  I traveled to Philly for work, and the hotel food was suspect (as most hotel food usually is).  I did pack a bag of healthy snacks (yay!) and then left it in the car overnight and had to throw it away (boo!).

 When my coworker and I arrived, we asked the nice lady that checked us in about the hotel restaurant.  She said "it has lots of different types of food--something for everyone!"  That's hotel-speak for "don't eat there."  So I braved cobblestone streets and drove us to Tria, which is highly rated on yelp and described as Philadelphia's destination for wine, cheese, and beer lovers. Sign me up!
I managed to keep it light by sharing some bar snacks with my coworker--rosemary olives and fennel dusted almonds.  Then I had a salad of grilled asparagus, artichokes, white beans, tomato onion relish, and balsamic vinegar.  Plus a glass of wine (IT'S A WINE BAR, PEOPLE!) and a few bites of bread pudding.  And lots of water.
The rest of the time, we were at the hotel, trapped in a meeting room colder than a meat locker, so I drank way more hot tea and coffee with cream and sugar than I ever wanted to.  I did pass on the muffins, cinnamon buns, and bagels every morning and just had fruit.  For lunch, I did things like eating only one bite of cheesesteak (who wants hotel cheesesteak anyway?!) and had a salad instead.  For dinner, I stuck to salad, rice, and chicken, and was the only person that passed on dessert and the bread basket and the booze.
Yes.
So that's how I found myself charging $13 (thanks, expense report) of wheat thins and dehydrated apples at the hotel gift shop.  I also made the healthiest choices possible at the Delaware rest stop, passing on the Popeyes, Sbarro, Baja Fresh, etc. and grabbed a turkey, apple, and brie sandwich and a side of grapes for the drive home.
I was excited to be back in Virginia and hit up Trader Joe's for some healthy stuff, and get to exercise, and be in rooms that are normal temperatures.  Here's what today looked like:

 Brunch - English muffin pizzas made with English muffins (200), turkey pepperoni (70), part-skim mozzarella cheese (70), and sauce (40).  Plus three glasses of water.

 Snack - TJ's mini ice cream cone (70) and two more glasses of water.
Lunch - Salad made with lettuce & endive (10), tomatoes (20), and light champagne dressing (30).  More water.

 Snack - Healthy nachos made with Trader Joe's organic tortilla chips (160), TJ's spicy fat-free black bean dip (60), and 2% cheddar cheese (70) and two more glasses of water.

 Dinner - Turkey meatballs (200), brown rice (200), and a salad with roasted golden beets, honey goat cheese, and light champagne dressing (90).  Dessert was a meringue cookie (25).  Two more glasses of water.

 Total: 1315 calories
Water: 10 glasses
Exercise: 20 minutes of yoga and a mile long walk

 We'll give it a Kate:

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