Year 2, Day 44: First Night of Passover

As always, the travel day is difficult because it represents a break with routine. It almost always also foreshadows more breaks with your routine, as you wake up somewhere else with a new set of diet-difficulties. Of course holidays are the very hardest, as you are exposed to more food, often under stressful or exciting situations which can either drive you to the food or distract you from your discipline. In addition, the whole 'hanging with the family' can be wildly tempting and misleading if you're staying at a house where people need to revisit the kitchen, fridge or pantry at around 10:30pm because they're feeling peckish.

Breakfast
1 Cup Kashi Go Lean!
1/4 cup Grape Nuts
1 small banana
Tea

Snack
Starbucks Half & Half Dry Soy Cappuccino
1 Slice Balthazar Bread with Super Chunky Peanut Butter

Car Ride
2 oz. Cracker Barrel Cheese
1/3 Broasted Breast of Chicken
.5 oz. Peanuts

PreSeder
6 oz. Plain Yogurt
3 Tablespoons Super Chunky Peanut Butter

Seder
3 Whole Wheat Matzoh Boards
1 Piece, Gefilte Fish with Horseradish
Brisket
Turkey
Asparagus
Salad

Dessert
A bite of one of three desserts:
chocolate ice cream cake, brownie, chocolate cake


I realize looking back on this day that I doubled-up on the peanut butter, which is not very good, but in eating both bread and matzoh, I probably doubled up on the bread-carbs too. At the end of this night I felt a little disgusting, have fed like a hungry heifer at the first seder. It's quite a meal, and always a marathon of eating: egg, potato, fish, soup, entree, dessert. Even if I could get past that, the dessert offerings killed me. But it was nothing compared to what happened the following night.