Day 5 - Lunch & Supper

Thursdays are my worst day, typically. I have post-graduate classes right after work, and while at work, I move around a lot as a client-serving professional. I find it grossly inconvenient to haul mammoth lunches around from place to place so I generally end up eating out, twice. This is the only day such transgressions occur and today was no different.

A client invited me to a Chinese restaurant today, and you just can't say no in that situation. So here I was, in a place where even the vegetables are fried. Since I eat Chinese about 5 times a year, I do not have a damage control strategy for these places (such as ordering a Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad without dressing, as a I would do at a Chicken joint). So, I ate, for lunch, a nice serving of Shanghai noodles (white flour, sadly) and Chicken. The only thing I could do was not finish the plate, which I didn't, considering the ridiculously oversized servings you get at Chinese restaurants.

Supper was largely the same. I tried to skip it all together and picked up some freshly pressed carrot and apple juice, about 500 mL at a juice stand that is between the office and the University. About an hour later, my stomach was grumbling so much I could no longer concentrate in class, so I went down to the in-campus sandwich shop. Anybody who eats "on campus" knows that the food quality is something a starving Ethiopian might be apalled at. The only thing I could find with whole wheat was Tuna Melt, which is basically a Mayo/Onion/Tuna sandwich with a slice of process cheese melted onto it. Well, it was either eat fat, or eat refined grains. I went with the fat. Was I wrong? Who knows.

My exercise of the day consisted of 30 minutes of walking to and from the University, as I had left my car at the office.

We'll be back on track tomorrow, though.