{"id":16865,"date":"2011-04-26T13:16:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T20:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=16865"},"modified":"2011-04-26T13:16:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T20:16:50","slug":"the-blue-olive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=16865","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Olive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday after work I met my good friend Robyn for Happy Hour over in NE Portland (Alberta).<\/p>\n

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\nI’d gone to NE Alberta a few weeks ago for dinner with another friend and had disappointing Greek food<\/a>. This time? Much better!<\/p>\n

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\nI met Robyn at The Blue Olive<\/a>. I have to say that I love my new work schedule. Getting off at 4:30 means I don’t miss happy hour times! We both arrived at 5 and had an hour left of the happy hour pricing.<\/p>\n

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\nThe place was cute and small. Before I even arrived I’d decided to skip the alcohol as part of the Sugar Detox<\/a>. Not that I plan on giving up all alcohol while I kick my candy habit, but I really didn’t want anything to drink! I ordered Persian Tea instead.<\/p>\n

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\nRobyn and I split an order of hummus and freshly made pita bread (YUM). The bread was piping hot. The hummus was delicious too–it could have used a tad more garlic or something but it was much better than a few weeks ago when I went to The Hilt.<\/p>\n

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\nFor dinner I ordered the Greek Salad off the happy hour menu. It was delicious and filling. I love Greek Salads. Robyn’s Greek Salad had grilled chicken in it and that looked good too.<\/p>\n

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\nI had a wonderful evening chatting with my friend. The salad and hummus filled my belly and I didn’t feel like I needed to order anything more. Although, I saw several other diners with yummy looking rice and kebobs…I would definitely return to eat those someday!<\/p>\n

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\nWe parted ways a few hours later and went into a nearby head shop to browse. I ended up buying myself a new pendant.<\/p>\n

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Ganesha<\/p><\/div>\n

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I got home from happy hour and wasn’t really hungry but I was craving dessert. I really wanted to have a little something. But I resisted and did not have any dessert. I did munch on a few tortilla chips but no dessert!<\/p>\n

SUGAR DETOX- DAY TWO<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Today is Tuesday and so far I’ve been successful once again with not eating candy. And today was a challenge! Tuesday morning the bosses hosted a breakfast thing for Administrative Professionals. There were scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, yogurt, granola, coffee, juice…Bagels:<\/p>\n

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\nI REALLY wanted a bagel and cream cheese. It looks so tasty…I did not eat one. There were also DONUTS!<\/p>\n

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\nThey looked so good. I really wanted a bite of the donuts. But I resisted. Day two I’m holding strong! Instead, I had some fruit:<\/p>\n

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\nI’m happy it’s now the second day and I’m still not giving into cravings or temptations to eat candy. My hope is that I can get it out of my system this week and next week when Michael and I try the low-carb diet the transition will be easier for me than stopping all carbs and sugar cold-turkey.<\/p>\n

QUESTION: What’s your favorite homemade hummus recipe? I’m really looking forward to trying to make my own.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Monday after work I met my good friend Robyn for Happy Hour over in NE Portland (Alberta). I’d gone to NE Alberta a few weeks ago for dinner with another friend and had disappointing Greek food. This time? Much better! I met Robyn at The Blue Olive. I have to say that I love my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,315,104,1949,124,152,154,193,194,195,196,254,258,262,3180,278,298],"tags":[8770,522,1940,2106,3184,8641,8647,3185,3182,3186,887,8691,3183,3171,3181],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_6067.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16865"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16918,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16865\/revisions\/16918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}