Day 3... Eating out is hard!

Day 3 has gone pretty well, with the exception my continuing caffeine withdrawal headache and going out to dinner tonight with my family. You don't think about how hard it is to get a decent raw foods meal at a restaurant until you try.

We had planned to go to Fresh Choice, only to find that the location listed on the website wasn't there. (Weird that they wouldn't have updated their website if the restaurant was closed.) So... where to go when everyone is starving? After driving around, we ended up at Marie Callender's, but all the regular salad choices on the menu were heavy on the meat, fatty dressings, and cheese, so I chose the salad bar. Big mistake. Yes, they had some cut-up lettuce that may have been fresh at some point, and a few raw veggies, but the rest was cooked food (bacon, croutons, soups, muffins) - something that pre-raw wouldn't have bugged me, but when you're starving... well, it was disappointing and frustrating to say the least.

So, I tried to pick the lettuce that looked the least wilted, some raw broccoli and cucumber slices and tried to not look too forlorn while the rest of the family hunkered into their pasta, french fries and corn bread. Sigh. I finally had to ask the waiter for some Caesar dressing to make the salad edible. I know it probably wasn't raw, but after being out all day at my spinning lesson and famished, I decided that it wasn't going to kill me to dip my fork into a little commercial salad dressing on the side.

Good things that happened today:

I weighed myself this morning and I'm at 208.9 - down 3.1 pounds! I am wondering if it's water being released, because I don't expect to lose that quickly. I'll take it, though! :)

Great spinning lesson with my lovely 80-year old spinning teacher, who is a shepherdess and raises Shetland sheep. She wants me to enter my handspun yarn in the county fair, so I think I will do that! I bought one of her fleeces from the shearing in March and am trying to decide if I'll try to wash and process the fleece myself or send it off to be prepared for me.

What I ate today:

Breakfast: green tea and some water (was not hungry)

Mid-morning: 1 quart of green smoothie with oranges, bananas, salad burnet (amazing herb that tastes like cucumber - I'm so glad I planted it!), bee pollen, and coconut butter.

(Skipped lunch due to spinning lesson that went longer than I anticipated - bad idea, because I wasn't prepared with any kind of snack to take with me so came home 3 hours later extremely hungry.)

Mid-afternoon: 1 banana, fruit salad (1 banana, 1 c. strawberries, 1 apple)

Dinner: selection of semi-fresh cut-up lettuces, broccoli and cucumber with about 1 T. of commercial Caesar dressing

I think I deserve a "mudslide" for dessert - an Alissa Cohen recipe of soaked almonds, frozen bananas and dates... tastes like a thick milkshake... I will add a little raw cacao! Absolutely delish!

Lessons learned today: I need to do some research about what local restaurants serve in terms of healthy foods (salads) so that I'm more prepared next time. I need to make sure I have snacks available and ready so that I don't put myself in the position of being ravenously hungry when things don't go according to plan (running late, healthy foods not available, etc.).