Day 313: A Tale of Two Meals: Breakfast and Dinner

Once again I begin my phase one breakfast hoping that eggs will not cause me to have a heart attack and die. With no hard boiled eggs left and no time to make any to order, I do the old bad-restaurant trick of putting them in the microwave. Even though it's day four of Phase One, Breakfast has basically lost its pleasurability qualities except that it provides a needed respite from hunger pangs.

Breakfast
Two Microwaved Eggs
2 slices of canadian Bacon
V-8
Tea

Snack
coffee (half decaf)
30 Pistachios
1 Cheese stick
6 oz plain yogurt
2 tsps Peanut Butter
1 pickle by Gus

Lunch
Shrimp, Chicken and Broccoli, Snow Peas

Dinner
Chicken-Lettuce Wraps a la Emily
Savoy Cabbage a la Emily
Fruit2-O

I really can't say anything nice about my lunch since it was steamed (but somehow cold) chicken over a sea of uninvitingly cold vegetables, but it must be said that there were a lot of them. This time there was a soy-ginger sauce but it tasted to me like a teriyaki sauce (read: contains sugar) than a soy-ginger sauce.

The real surprise was waiting for me when I got home. Emily had made her crowning achievement—a double Elephant Walk—style dinner that I practically ate all of including the plates. Because lunch was somewhat early today—and the yogurt course was early (2:30, not 3:30) I was quite hungry in the 4:30 time frame and had a pickle even though they are sub-standard. I was famished when I got home. Even though I had a restaurant quality meal, I still wanted something sweet (which seems common after Asian food) but instead of the ricotta dessert that South Beach allows on the Phase One, I skipped and had a fruit 2 o, which though disgusting, contains no calories, no carbs, and nothing that you should be putting in your body.