Abstinence - 212th Day

Breakfast
2 slices 12-grain french toast with margarine & sugar-free syrup
3/4 cup apple cider
1 cup soy milk
1 cup hazelnut coffee
2 cups water

Lunch (eaten out at Luna's Restaurant & Deli)
1 bowl Italian Wedding soup with 4 saltine-type crackers
1 cup crabmeat salad on a bed of dark green lettuce (not iceberg lettuce)
12 pieces sliced black olives
4 slices tomato
Several cubes cantaloupe
Several cubes honeydew melon
Several cubes raw pineapple
1/2 banana
Raspberry-flavored presweetened ice tea
Water

Dinner
Rotisserie chicken leg & wing with skin
1 cup mashed potatoes
1/2 can New England clam chowder
1/4 cantaloupe
2 cups soy milk
2 chocolate-flavored graham crackers

When I was at Luna's today standing in line to get a booth table for lunch, I noticed their case in front, packed with all kinds of cakes, pies, apple dumplings, brownies, etc.  I was horribly tempted to order a piece of either pumpkin, berry, or peach pie for dessert, but I didn't.  I prayed to God to help me with this, and somehow I had the willpower to resist ordering it.  I knew if I did, I would regret it later, for it would set a precedent to order desserts with eating out in the future.  Nobody ever said it would be easy, after all!

Denise Phares/kitties4