So what the hell happened? Money, mostly. When I got home I had pretty much twenty bucks to my name, my last couple paychecks have been really shitty, and I wound up eating a lot of my parents' food instead. I also re-picked-up my soda habit, but luckily right now soda feels wildly unappealing to me and that'll probably be easy to kick. This time, at least.
I don't really regret the cheat meals I had on the trip. I had Subway a couple times (I usually get salads there, but getting one of those "on the go" would have been complicated in a group like the one I was in), I had McDonalds once (which I probably should regret but I do not), and I had some foods that I just wouldn't be able to get up here in Wisconsin at the same quality, like a Crawfish and Oyster Po'boy or a Memphis Style Barbecue Sandwich.
I will tell you, though, that those last two meals sure made me feel like garbage the night after. The barbecue wasn't so bad (the main problem was that in addition to the sandwich we had pulled pork nachos and so we all overate), but the Po'boy resulted in such bad acid reflux that I could not sleep. This was a huge problem as my flight was at six in the morning, and we left the hotel at four.
Most of my restaurant eating actually wasn't that bad. For instance, when going to a sushi place you can't go wrong with a plate of sugary-rice-free sashimi. I don't eat sashimi very often because most of the places I get sushi do not serve it. I feel like I should eat more of it, though. On a side note... I've been trying to figure out what that white fish on the right is, and it might be escolar, which is famous for some creative and nasty health effects that as far as I can tell make it the Olestra of the fish world. I, however, have never had a problem with it, probably because I don't eat a whole lot of it.
