Day 122: Good Neighbors Make Bad SoBe Partners

Emily and I almost never get invited anywhere but tonight we were invited over for dinner by our Russian neighbors down the street. They are absolutely the sweetest, smartest people we know and our daughter loves their daughter, and they have a son that is close in age to magnolia. But for some reason (which is hard to fathom now in hindsight) we did not tell them we were on the SoBe diet (Emily is on the official a la Emily version, a slightly less restrictive but still very serious version). As a result, we were greeted with lots of bread, bread products, things made with sugar, basically everything in the SoBe handbook that has a red line through it. A lot of the food looked yummy so we did our best to eat as much as we could (Ruby, as I was afraid, only would eat noodles. Luckily, our guests had some ready and understood it was the universal food of children). If we did badly during dinner as guests who eat, we failed outright at dessert, where we had to demur both marshmellow filled chocolates AND the seemingly harmless cup of Russian Tea. We explained that it keeps us up at night but somehow we didn't explain ourselves right and they thought we were saying Tea was unhealthy. Ruby had no qualms about filling her mouth with the treats, and wanted more, but we were able to keep her down with just three.

Breakfast
2.5 Strips Louis Rich
2 Eggs O'r' (out of practice, the yolks broke on the first AND second flips)
Tea

Snack
1/4 cup mixed unsalted nuts
12 oz coffee (half decaf)
30 pistachios
30 cashews
1 cup strawberries

Lunch
3 Roll Mops: Turkey, Ham, Mustard
1 Head Romaine Lettuce
Olives to taste

Dinner
Israeli Pickles
Pickled Carrot Strings
2 Bites of a Potato Salad Like Thing
1 Chicken Thigh
Greek Salad with Feta
The Inside of a Feta-Pudding Cake (which was YUMMY—I had a small bite of the outside, which was tender and flaky).
3 caviar eggs (@!*#&$ It's official. I don't like caviar).
1 glass Semi-Sweet Georgian Wine

I'm going to go for a VERY fast walk tomorrow. And eat a lot of salad.