Today was another good day. I won’t say I’m back on track nor that I’m building momentum because 2 steps isn’t exactly walking — but it’s a heck of a lot better than what’s come before….

Here’s what I did well today :

  • Breakfast : skipped the french baguette w butter and jam and instead polished off the last of my imported Kashi Heart to Heart cereal (love that stuff!). Had a small yogurt w it
  • Lunch : dug around in my freezer knowing I’d have some leftover soup in there and came out with a red lentil soup I made a few months back. It was good. I had some canned corn w it (no butter!) to get some veggies and more substance. And a small peice of bread.
  • I knew dinner would be on the run or room service - I had an evening flight to Madrid. While out running errands I bought 2 of the apples that I liked so much yesterday and a bread roll from a good bakery so I could make my own sandwich. Airplane food is never very good and we have this awesome Corsican cheese at home right now… I also threw a small chocolate Easter egg in the bag (size of the tip of your finger)
  • On the plane the food turned out to be not only industrial (plastic-packed sandwiches which might have been made days ago) but also expensive ($10 for said sandwich). I was THRILLED to have brought my own and really enjoyed my great-bread-with-great-cheese sandwich while watching people around me hack down dried out gross industrial stuff. My apple was awesome again, and the bite of chocolate made me feel indulgent.
  • Arriving at the airport in Madrid I was thirsty and decided to stop for a bottle of water (never cheap at an airport, but compared to a hotel minibar it’s a bargain). They also had one of those machines that automatically makes fresh-squeezed orange juice. My mouth started watering and I went for it. I almost never drink juice but fresh-squeezed in front of you like these machines you find all over Spain is a real treat. Yum, it was good, and I knew I wouldn’t be needing my second apple tonight (so now I have it for the flight back tomorrow!)

All in all, another good day, and one that leaves me full of hope, not self-loathing.