Day Nine

Last day of the conference, and I went in a little late, so I was able to take my time getting ready. Much better.

Breakfast

• cereal with almonds and skim milk
• low-fat cottage cheese
• cantaloupe

This was a delicious breakfast, but I was starved by 2:30pm. I guess that's a normal lunchtime, but it was pretty brutal. I neglected to pack lunch or a snack to take with me, so by the time I got out for lunch, I was beyond famished.

Lunch

• bowl of crab bisque
• three cheese rosemary panini

It was about 6:00 by the time I got lunch, and I'd been hungry for hours. I originally intended to eat only half of this meal that I got in Manhattan, but it was way delicious and I had a lapse of judgment. The thing is, I'm allowed to have fast food on my diet, just in very limited quantities. A bowl of bisque is not the same as a cup of vegetable, and a whole cheese-filled panini is not the same as a dinner roll. Sigh.

Dinner

Bad news. Lost my mind. My boyfriend and I ordered Papa John's, and I guess I should admit we were more than a bit intoxicated in making this decision. I deluded myself by thinking I would still follow the diet by looking up how much pizza I was allowed to have: 1 thin-crust sausage slice and one bread stick with tomato dipping sauce. Instead I had half of an order of cheese sticks (really quite a huge amount of food by itself) and half of a thin-crust sausage, mushroom & pepper pizza (pictured).

Initially I stopped after two slices, thinking I'd had way more than double the serving, but could still keep it together. But nope, later on I had the rest.

Talk about progress right?