Being a Business Consultant and Coach by day and a Figure Competitor by night makes for some interesting experiences! This evening I went to a fancy schmancy networking supper. I decided that I could be ‘normal’ and eat the supper. Heck, I even went for the vegetarian option, after all, that would mean vegetables galore? Right?
Wrong. SO WRONG.
It’s really hard to appear normal when you are sitting at a table full of hungry men when you don’t eat any of the meal. Luckily I have refined the art of cutting food up and moving it around on the plate so it appears as though I have eaten quite a bit of the meal…I only got 17 or so questions about my weird eating which was way less that usual.
As soon as the event was over, I ran home and made an EPIC salad so I didn’t die from hunger.
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Apparently I can’t pronounce ‘ravioli’ when I am in near starvation mode! I would have made the video again, but my stomach demanded that I eat the Epic Salad NOW.
I have been vegetarian for 8 months now and it STILL burns me how bad it is to eat out. There are some phenomenal meals that I’ve had but they have been my own creation. I found that when I order like Sally “on the side” I get alot more better options. I’ve been wondering I too LOVE that Liberte yogurt (and thanks to you I know exactly where to get it) what do you eat it with? Do you do fruit? I’ve seen you do the chocolate. Keep up the great work!! I read your blog daily and LOVE it!
Thanks lady! For the yogurt here are a few of my favs:
– chocolate, peanut butter, and apple
– nutmeg, cinnamon, and apple
– salsa mixed with it in a 1 to 1 ratio and used as a veggie dip
– dill and lemon used as a dip for veggies
– use it wherever you would normally use sour cream (like on a potato)
Mmmmm!!
For the ‘sweet’ mixes I add in a bit of splenda brown sugar to cut the sour flavor. It’s one of two of the only two times I use artificial sweeteners. I am trying to drop it altogether though.
How do you eat it?
Great job NOT eating the pasta w/cheese! That’s some hardcore will power there, I’m proud of you. I know I wouldn’t have been able to. And not eating the salad, you rock!
It was more awkward than hard. Everyone else chowing down on their steak and buttery potatoes or pasta and me sorting the food on my plate. It was hilarious!