Challenges in eating healthy.

I had a rare day off today as I have been working insane amounts of overtime. I was in camp rather than in the field for lunchtime so I headed to the mess hall. I have mentioned before that our chefs apparently learned to cook in the oil fields and don't spare the butter.

Today's menu? I decided to skip the rice, beef stew with phyllo (sp) sheet topping, and the canned veg-all. The baked tillapia, roasted new potatoes, and green beens sounded healthy. Not so it seems. The tillapia was apparently dipped in melted butter and dredged in bread crumbs. Tasty, but not particularly lo-cal. The green beans? Cooked in bacon grease with chopped bacon thrown in for good measure. The potatoes drizzled with melted butter naturally. I really should peek in the back and see if Paula Deen is back there doling out the butter by the pound.

I decided to add a salad. The "healthy" choice was a full-fat version of a house Italian. I decided some field expedient tranny diet dressing was in order. I squeezed some lemon wedges intended for their heavily sweetened iced tea over the salad first. Then I dusted it with Splenda and a little salt and pepper. Tasty and virtually no calories. I am going to have to start cooking in my room or risk plumping out of the juniors department range.

I am now about 10 lbs OVER my drivers licence weight having come up here about 4 months ago 10 lbs light. Not the right direction to go if I want to wriggle into some of those dresses in the new post-prom-ball-gown-thrift-store-season.