We went out for a Mother's Day buffet dinner, and the entire buffet was carb-y except the sliced beef, the turkey, and caesar salad. Nothing but potatoes, rice, potato salad, rice salad, mountains of rolls, that wierd marshmallow salad, and so on.

I ate beef, turkey, and caesar salad. And drank a jug of water. Boy, that turkey is dry without gravy ... Still, I figured that I ate my meal ticket in protein -- they didn't make any money on me!

And I don't want to be unkind, but 99% of the people lining up to serve themselves enormous slabs of cake, pie, brownies, soft ice cream and so on at the dessert table probably shouldn't have been doing that, if you know what I mean. So I did feel virtuous, if somewhat deprived (my dad, sitting right beside me, had two slices of pie [groan])