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Day 148

Breakfast was being tortured in the world's longest meeting.  Seriously, what good is it to work at a place with a cafeteria plus free zumba, yoga, and a gym if you never leave the conference room?!  

So I sucked down two glasses of water while I pretended to be enthralled by project timelines.  I'd say that right now over 50% of my fellow coworkers that are trapped in The Room with me are about one minor disaster away from a nervous breakdown.  One day someone's gonna accidentally spill a soda on the conference table, and everyone's just gonna effin' lose it.
nervous
I'm sorry, this isn't in the project plan.
Lunch was Potbelly's TKY without cheese (because Swiss cheese is disgusting)...
Food of The Devil.
...and one of their huge pickles (I gave a quarter to coworker Linzi), plus a homemade pumpkin muffin for dessert.  I got some veggie soup but I saved it for later 'cause I was full.  And four glasses of water.  Total: 8 points
Oh Potbelly, I love your Skinnies.
For dinner I was STILL AT WORK so I had a cup of chicken chili and four crackers from Jason's Deli, along with a giant plate of fruit (strawberries, grapes, melon).  And of course, I could not avoid their "fruit dip," which they might as well call "crack dip" because we all know what the secret ingredient is.  And a glass of water.  Hey, at least it was free--the joys of expense reports.  Total: 11 points

Primary ingredient in Jason's Deli's fruit dip.
I had good intentions of coming home and exercising, then having a spinach salad and some milk so I could get my oils and dairy servings in.  But because of work an an accident on Rt. 50, I got home around 8:30.  And then something happened that made me a sad panda (I'm over it now), so I just made a frowny face and went to bed.

 Liquids: 7/6  
Dairy: 0/2
Vitamin: 1/1
Healthy Oil: 0/2
Fruits/Veggies: 5/5
Protein: 2/2 
Whole Grains: yes, wheat bread
Exercise: no
Total: 19/26 points
Weekly Points: 0/49 for the week

 And oh look--you all knew this was coming:
Terrifying.

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