Weekend Diet Tests AKA Eating out during my second diet weekend

Weekends are horrible for diets for a variety of reasons.

1. You don't have the same fixed schedule as you do at work.
2. Meals are less likely to be planned because of #1
3. You're more often to eat out.
4. It's harder to eat out on a diet.

I went to a festival on Saturday, which meant either eating out or packing a lunch.

Since I didn't have enough food on hand, I decided on the former and was fortunate to find Pacific East...

 

...who whipped up this nice low-calorie sashimi lunch special for me (with 2 Ikura sushi pieces).

Yummy!

While on that trip, I also picked up some monkfish from Whole Foods...

...which I prepared that evening by cutting the fish into filets...

 

...poaching them in a water/butter blend (3 minutes one side and 1.5 minutes the other)...

 

...and serving them with a squeeze of lime and a side of zucchini and shallots.

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Sunday, I took Max to see Mom and family...

...and, for lunch, we had homemade butternut squash soup (thank you, Vitamix) and a Romaine taco-style salad with hummus, anchovies, grape tomatoes and avocado.

I ate the salad with my hands.

Then, on Sunday night, I ate with my brother and his family at Aladdin's...

...and I got a lamb salad (my first time with red meat and this much cheese)...

 

 ...and a fava bean appetizer that I used as the dressing with some lemon juice.

I took the rest of the appetizer home for a salad the following day.

Speaking of Aladdin's, the Cooker Girl blog shared a pickled turnip recipe that I decided to try out...

 ...they're pickling as we speak (or I write, rather).

So not too shabby!  I actually think I did a pretty good job.

This weekend will be a little harder, since I'll be a little further from home.  But I have complete faith that I'll be fine.

And then I'll even weigh myself and see where things are.  

Maybe I'll even try on some pants in a small size!

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