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Just as I expected, Aunt Flo rolled into town with a vengeance. It’s been an awful weekend for me. The last day I exercised was on Friday and that was only an hour of my obstacle course. I’ve had a lot of discomfort and in between packing up and all the other hectic stuff going on, I haven’t wanted to cook. Friday and Saturday I lived off of orange juice and Hershey’s miniatures. I honestly did not care AT ALL. I was in pain that even Advil couldn’t help. Ugh, it sucked SOOO bad.

I was still feeling pretty good on Friday after I worked out, probably because she had just arrived and didn’t have a chance to wreak havoc yet, so we decided to make it date night and headed down to Barnaby’s in New Paltz where I could begin undoing all of the low-sodium progress that I made. Actually, I didn’t really do that bad.

I hadn’t eaten by that point in the day, other than orange juice. Needless to say I was pretty hungry, so we started with cheddar and pepperjack cheese quesadilla:

It was really good! I ate 2.5 of the triangles without any of the guac, salsa or sour cream. I was just happy to have food and couldn’t be bothered with dips lol.

For my entree I ordered sea scallops over linguine with tomatoes and spinach. When our server was going over their specials, that sounded really good to me, but when I got it, I wasn’t that into it.

I had 3 of the scallops and maybe 2 or 3 bites of the spinach and linguine. It was good, but I just wasn’t in the mood for it after I got it. *shrugs* Dustin was enjoying his lobster bake, maybe I should have followed his lead? When I declined to take the rest home with me, my server asked if it was ok. I felt bad lol.

I was in the mood for the Crème brûlée we shared for dessert though!

Delicious! Not sure why it was served with forks, but we still managed to finish it despite our less-than-ideal utensils.

My kitchen laziness actually went pretty well with my attempt to clean out the fridge and pantry. We kept it simple all weekend, but like I said, I mainly drank OJ and ate candy. I drank an entire half gallon of orange juice in 2 days. Only about 440 calories per day, and not the greatest choice of calories, but there are worse things — trust me, I have had them on more than one occasion lol. I can’t seem to get enough OJ. I bought 2 more half gallons today! I’m pacing myself now though lol. I’m pretty lenient on myself the first few days of her visit. Ah well, back to my low sodium challenge and better habits now.