LID, round 2, day 5

Lots of fruits, lots of salads, and roasted meats are getting me by.

We went to Claim Jumper for dinner, and I had their lovely, lovely Asian Pear salad with raspberries and carmelized walnuts and a citrus dressing. Usually it would have blue cheese crumbles on it too but I had to skip that, even though I'm sure they would really enhance the salad. After that, I had a grilled top sirloin with grilled asparagus, and I had a Duval to drink. Oh, and I munched on some of the boys' shoestring fries pretty much constantly, those things are addictive.

So, here's how I think I did: there were potato skins in minute quantities on the fries (they were shoestring fries, after all); the walnuts were carmelized which I realized requires butter as well as sugar, and those walnuts were really encased; the steak arrived with a ball of herb butter on it, but I scraped it off... and that was it.

I still haven't heard a schedule for injections or scans or anything, so even if I did accidentally ingest 10 grams of butter or a few scraps of potato skin, it won't matter by the time the scan actually rolls around, which I'm thinking won't be until after next week, anyway.

The waitress was incredulous regarding the dietary restrictions and sympathetic about the scan requirements, and wished me luck on the way out: "Good luck to you," she said, in a very kind voice. It took me a minute to think of what she was referring to -- I was thinking along the lines of, "good luck with those three kids," who were very silly by that point, but that wasn't it, of course. She meant good luck with the scan! D'oh!

Then I thought how cool it was that my scan wasn't the first thing that popped into my head.

We stopped at Trader Joe's on the way home and I bought myself a couple of organic dark chocolate bars with pecans and raisins; they are one of the few chocolates I've ever seen with no soy lecithin, and they're really delicious. I hope those raisins are OK! (have to go look 'em up again, I forget...)

I find I'm eating much more frequently than I'm used to, but fortunately entire hours now go by without eating, even though I'm still obsessed with food since there are so many things I can't have. I'm still thinking of getting out the blender and making myself a smoothie with coconut milk and frozen blueberries, a little DaVinci syrup... that should work, I think. I'm down a few pounds in spite of the constant eating. Ha!