Ray and I are on the way home from the 90th Virginia Lions Convention in Bristol VA. It was a hoot. There was a dinner almost every time I turned around. We stayed at The Holiday Inn Bristol. The rooms were nice and clean, and the AC worked famously. Although, there seemed to be an electrical storm going on in the hotel. (1). My key had to be rekeyed 4 Times, (2) the indicator lights on most of the floors were out on the 2 elevators (a third was broken), (3) the microphones in the meetings were sporadic and worn out, and (4) I got tired of waving at spigots to wash my hands.We drove up on Friday morning early after having an Atkins meal bar. They are scrumptious, then we stopped at Wendy's for a chicken wrap after we arrived for Lunch. It was quite tasty! Of course, we started the trip with a bag of baked chips and a bag of Cheetos, which are not diet friendly. Oh, well, we don't want our bodies to go into starvation mode, do we?
Friday night, we went to dinner at Cracker Barrel. I ordered the chicken and dumplings child's plate and Ray ordered Chicken Fried Steak w/turnip greens and a sweet potato. We knew that we were off plan, but isn't life that way sometimes? Saturday saw us having a Atkins Meal for Breakfast. Lunch was a buffet, but I think we were not too bad. There was coleslaw, sliced pork, broccoli, and mashed potatoes. Also, there was a dessert of your choice of cake.
Dinner consisted of crunchy chicken (it wasn't fried) with a mystery sauce on it, rice, tough vegetables, but canned biscuits that weren't too bad. Ray had Prime Rib (looked and tasted like jerky) mashed potatoes and the tough veggies. The dessert was spice cake with creamed cheese.
This morning, we went to a breakfast buffet in the hotel. We stopped and got fountain drinks, chips, gum, and Cheetos for the drive home.
When we get home today, we are back on Atkins. We have some frozen dinners in the freezer. We really were surprised at how good they are. So, even though we made bad meal choices over the weekend, it doesn't mean we are quitting. Thomas Edison failed over two thousand times before he was successful with the light bulb.
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