Day 29, I'm surrounded

Yesterday and today find me in Deerfield, IL, for business. I spent yesterday at a workshop sponsored by a pharmaceutical company. When I entered, I noticed they had provided breakfast items. Thankfully I had already eaten, because the options were sugar-laden yogurt with sugary granola or sugary breakfast bars. They also had a fruit tray, which I enjoyed, but that was it. Then for lunch, it was boxed deli meat sandwiches (I managed to find one with grilled veggies) with chips and a cookie (I donated mine to whomever wanted it), but the only beverage option was various forms of brown soda: Coke, Pepsi, Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi. And the vast majority of people downed one or more bottles. One woman had 3 bottles of Diet Coke. I was cringing. 

I get so used to my routine and my habits that sometimes I forget just how pervasive these foods and drinks are. And no one bats an eye at having sugar for breakfast followed by several bottles of soda. Our food environment needs to change in a big way.