Day Twenty

I am in the groove now, of being used to not eating sugar.  If I don't see it, I don't think about it.  Usually.  

 I brought some leftover spinach salad and a little leftover mac and cheese and green beans to work for my lunch.  I had forgotten that I was supposed to go to a luncheon today.  (I wasn't really dressed up for it, either.  My best friend said that if I was dressed for work, I was dressed for the luncheon.  There were pictures taken, though, but I managed to get on the back row for the first time in my life!  Yay!  Everyone always forces me to stand in the front, even when I protest.  So, small personal victory there.)

 Normally, I would be excited about this luncheon.  I went one other time in the past.  Hey, anyone serving me food I didn't have to prepare or purchase myself has my appreciation.  Also, I like to see what it will be and try new things.  Well, today, I didn't end up eating much.  It was a buffet, so I didn't have to waste food, but I was not able to fill my plate with much.

 The first thing in the buffet line was cole slaw.  I reasoned that it did have vegetables and bulk.  On the other hand, it probably had sugar in it.  I passed.  The next thing was rolls and butter.  I did take one small roll and some butter.  Next was cooked carrots.  I took a big serving of those, and a small piece of chicken.  The chicken had a sauce on it, which might have had some sugar, but the other option was barbecued spare ribs, which definitely did.  I scraped the sauce off my chicken, and it wasn't very sweet, anyway, so I think we're good.

 Dessert was some kind of fruit cobbler with whipped cream.  I only gave it a glance and whipped past that.  It occurred to me later that I could have had the whipped cream, but, on the other hand, it probably had sugar in it.

 Since my lunch was small, I ate my salad in the afternoon.  Didn't have room for my apple or any snacks.  

 I did a whole hour on the elliptical this morning.

 This is my twentieth day, so I am anticipating that, in the morning when I weigh myself, I will be calculating whether I have lost a fifth of the weight I need to lose, or how far I think I can get in the weight loss in another eighty days.

 I had to stop at a grocery store tonight, and they had candy bars on sale for seventy-nine cents.  I know I will not see that price often, and I could have saved them up for later, but I passed.  I still have a whole bag of Easter candy, somewhere.

 Wish me luck for my weigh-in tomorrow!  (Especially since I am about to make chicken enchiladas for dinner.)

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