Day 16: Texas Last Diet

Today was one of those days that are designed to test me.  I want to say that it was horrible, but it wasn't. I'm just hoping I made the right choices and haven't messed anything up with the diet.

I started the day off with a brownie.  They are so good... and I felt naughty to start with.  We had a full day of shooting pictures, and we had to drive all over the area.  We hit the road early, and it was hot, and when it wasn't hot it was raining.  At some point around lunchtime I was so hungry I was shaking.  I ate a bag of trial mix in the car, but knew we had to stop somewhere for veggies.  We were in between jobs, so I couldn't really take time for food preparation, but we found a Tomato's restaurant.  We stopped, and I had a lovely salad complete with two cups of the good veggies: cauliflower, bell peppers, broccoli and mushrooms.  I used a little bit of their no calorie dressing, and seasoned with salt and pepper.  I think it rounded off my meal, and I felt like I'd done the right thing.

So we kept shooting, and ended up really far away, almost to Galveston, when it was getting dark.  We thought we would run back to the office and have dinner (I keep meat and veggies there now too).  There was some sort of horrible accident though and the freeway was completely closed heading North.  We were able to get off the freeway at some point and start trying to make it through side streets, but it was already about 9:30 and we were both crazy hungry.  So we ended up stopping at a TGIFridays on the side of the road.  This was the second restaurant we'd been to in one day.  I felt terrible about it.

I ordered a turkey burger with no bun, and got a side of Brussels sprouts.  I scrapped off all the seasoning they put on the sprouts, and they seemed to be pretty acceptable.  They were baked, and didn't seem to be swimming in butter or anything.  The turkey burger was horrible, but also seemed to be acceptable for the diet.  Anyway, I hope I haven't messed anything up.

Got home after 11, and I skipped my evening snack.  I took all my pills, and went to bed.  Weird day!