Day 261: Trip To New York

I was seeing a client who is deep in New Jersey, and I decided to take the train (the Acela) because it literally stops a few minutes from their offices. I made sure I packed lots of SoBe friendly snacks for the road, and in fact ate most of them. I probably could have gone without a few of them, but when you spend 8 hours on a train, you indulge yourself a little. I did not eat any of my joy sticks.

Breakfast
2 slices of when pigs fly bread
peanut butter
tea

Snack
1/2 cup almonds/cashews
6 oz yoplait lite yogurt (bananas and strawberries)
10 dried apricots
1 cameo apple (bruised)

Lunch
3 Roll Mops: Ham, Muenster, Pickles, Mustard
1 Romaine Heart
2 Slices Toscano Salami

Dinner
13 oz. Spinach Salad with Egg, Bacon and Cheese
Dressing

At the client meeting the clients were kind enough to provide snacks: water and cookies. The water was served in several different size containers (both sport bottles and non-sport bottles) and the cookies (served in plastic cups(!)) had the feeling of an afterthought. I demurred, citing the South Beach diet and quietly calculated how many cookies I would have had I not been on the diet. The number was at least two (there were chocolate chip and sugar) because I would have tried one of each; and certainly would have gone back for seconds. Instead, I contented myself with knowing that I had an apple and apricots in my bag, and I could eat them if I got hungry. As it was, they served us dinner on the Acela right away, a Spinach salad. I asked for, and got, a second helping, which was good because six ounces of spinach is NOT a dinner portion.