Sun, Aug-05-07, 10:05
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Posts: 393
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Plan: Protein Power
Stats: 215/164/158
BF:much/less/now :-)
Progress: 89%
Location: North Carolina, USA
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Originally Posted by LarryAJ
You need to do as I do. I have a friend that I used to eat lunch with every day when we were in the same division. Now that I have retired and he has not, I try to eat once a month with him. The problem is there are only two suitable places to meet. One is a buffet where it is easy to eat too much, even thought not hard to keep low carb. The other is a Pizza Hut that is close to my house. I now order a personal pan with 4 meats on it. When it comes I scrape off the topping and leave the crust, the worst part of the pizza.
Here is another hint/suggestion for those times when you are traveling, especially long distances. Stop at one of the large grocery chains for supper/lunch. Most now have a deli counter and many have a place to sit and eat in the store. When I go to Iowa from Virginia, I have stopped in Ohio at Meijer, a chain like Wall-Mart or Target, which also has gas and was near to the interstate so there w
as a sign for them on the interstate. In Iowa, there is HyVee. I will order something like roast beef or chicken sliced for sandwiches. Then often I can get cold slaw or sometimes a broccoli salad. Some places have a salad bar that will get you the vegies you need. Then I drink half and half (cream/milk) which usually can be bought in a pint container. At the Meijer store they gave me a paper glass so I could have free water and ice out of the soft drink machine. Meger meal but very close to fully on plan. I know that the slaw and broccoli salad had added sugars in them so that was not fully “up to snuff!” but it was close enough to due in a pinch.  |
thanks larry - you always have the best ideas. Your strategies are my ussual ones but this was a far different trip. I was traveling with two vegetarians to boot...we had a rented car once we flew to California, but I was not the driver and the entire time there was only one swing to a grocery store. We were in the middle of nowhere much of the time. The Santa Cruz part of the trip was the easiest. I did pretty well most of the time, the morning they all stopped for muffins and bakery I got a great tomato mozz basil salad and mineral water instead. The pizza issue was more about trying not to make waves, and when you only get one slice of the pie, the toppings just don't cut it! lol. They first time they bought bake your own pizzas I paid for them to get me some chicken breasts at the store for me to grill. They never materialized - likely forgotten in the chaos. In hindsight I should have been more clear and demanding - after three days with the wining, howling 3.5 year old I just did not want to make things harder on my hosts. It truly hard to explain or comprehend but the kid is really really difficult behavior wise, and always has been (I did some childcare for him when he was 6 moths to a year and a half old). Other children remark on his out there behavior (hitting, biting, screaming are but a few fun examples.) With him in the car there is no stopping for any addtional reasons other than gas and restroom. If he wakes up, which he frequently does when the car stops, he screams and cries uncontrollably- sometimes for an hour or more. The rental car was in someone elses name since I was not there when it was rented so there was no way I felt comfortable driving around on my own and the nearest store was like 30 - 45 min away down one of the steepest and most winding mountain roads I've ever seen.
I ate remarkably well considering.
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Since I'm wanting to start over today and climb back on the wagon, I don't know what to do either. I might make a chocolate cake (LC) if I still have the recipe. Cheesecake just takes too long. It doesn't help that I just got back into town today.
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