When I return to work, how can I ease out of eating lunch with the office or explaining pulling out my little blender to make sift foods at work?

You could take soup for lunch! Just have it already premade and just heat it up. I am assuming you don't want to tell anyone? I told everyone and their dog so it was never a problem for me.

Hi LaLa!

Bring your own lunch prepared per your doctor's orders. With the economy the way it is, nobody questions folks bringing their lunch. Use attractive containers and smile! If you have to go out to a business luncheon, choose the foods your doctor OKs for you and don't forget to ask for that take out box!

Tammygirl

I have been telling people on am on a soup kick lately and I love it..... No one has really said anything. Today I was asked to go out to lunch and I had the soup and half sandwich option - ate the soup and picked the sandwich apart. I said I was dieting and was not eating any bread.

Shoot...since I've been told to take 30mins each meal to eat, who wouldn't question you being in a happy "talkative" mood with no time to eat?? It could get to where no one would bother to even ask you what you're eating!!

And I don't mean this in a mean way, just a funny way to lighten up our new lifestyles here-ha!

Everyone at work (my students included) think I'm getting over some stomach bug. I have them all thinking I am still feeling under the weather and don't have much of an appetite. I teach and school is almost over, so I won't be able to offer any suggestions past the liquid stage.