Food Log (PM), and Whining

For those of you who have never yet experienced the power and glory of a diet-friendly frozen meal, they're definitively worse in quantity and quality than any low-brow, single-serving, cheap eat that comes to mind - diner food, airplane food, middle school cafeteria food, prison food (probably).

The Lean Cuisine creation, above, is an apt icon for the category - one smallish slab of colorless Processed Meat laying limply in a pool of salty stew-sauce; one serving of veggie-doused starchy filler food. Incredibly (or not?) the whole ordeal manages to stay under 300 calories (my midday Chicken Medallions Over Wild Mushroom Rice netted out at 220), and is savory and temporally filling.

So, after day. . . I dunno, 10 or so of DEFICIT EATING, the hungries aren't plaguing me much anymore. They're there, to be sure, and even though I'm checking the time left until I can whip out my snack arsenal (string cheese, today), I'm not nearly as miserable as I was a week ago.

Also, I splurged on recreational swimwear today AND overnight shipping so it'll arrive before I peace out to the islands on Saturday: