Raw on the road

I'm on a weeklong business trip right now to gather declarations.  It involves me going into my client's retail stores and interviewing employees and taking their signed statements.

I have done these trips before, and they do not breed particularly good eating habits.  I generally eat stuff out of bags that I can buy at said retail stores.  One trip happened over Passover and I subsisted on almonds and Frappucinos all week.  What fate would befall my raw foods diet so far away from my newly-purchased "cooking" appliances?

I'm three days in and it hasn't been so bad.  Well, I suppose Manhattan is the best place to travel when you're on a hipster diet.  I've gotten takeout from one raw food restaurant and eaten at another.  I've gotten lucky enough to have a client store to visit in the same shopping center as a natural foods store.  I discovered rawtella.  I ordered a cobb salad from room service, no chicken, bacon, eggs, or cheese; add broccoli (it was steamed), carrot, asparagus (it also came steamed); olive oil/salt/pepper instead of dressing.

Zucchini "pasta"-
photo taken as an afterthought

And it's been fun to seek out these restaurants I never would have tried otherwise, to set these boundaries.  My energy level has been really good, and I have only marginally wanted a cup of coffee while sitting in horrific traffic on the BQE.  We'll see though, when I get up at 6 am tomorrow for my marathon day of 3 stores to hit.

Regarding other mindfulness endeavors... I'm feeling rather wrenched right now, so it's a difficult time to speak on that.  I have laid off the formal meditation but once I get a little more in the swing of the diet I will incorporate that again.  In the meantime, I am trying to watch myself but it's a challenge.  Especially while PMSing.  I hope to open up more about it soon, but I'm not quite ready.