Met L at the General Store in DUMBO for breakfast, so I could have his undivided attention while I gathered the info I needed to do the graphics work for the restaurant. Went home after and marvelled at Edie, she gained another few pounds and an inch since her last visit, she's like a whole 'nuther baby since we were introduced. Fantastically fantastic!
Went to yoga at the center on Union Square for a basics class on forward bending, really good teacher, felt really good and at ease after, and my legs a little wobbly and stretchy, a good thing. Did some errands, picked up some stuff I need to make for breakfast for some family visiting in the morning.
BREAKFAST: 9:30am, corn pancakes, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
LUNCH: 1pm, left over pizza, Gatorade, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
PM SNACK: 4:45pm, 2 wholefoods cookies, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Bad idea to go food shopping after yoga when your hungry. Should of eaten somewhere first.
PM SNACK: 5:15pm, spoonful of peanut butter
Was looking at ice cream and potato chips, as I started dinner. Salad would be nice, but none on hand. If I eat this ice cream, I'll probably eat most of it, then I'll have to admit it on the blog. So I just ate some peanut butter. Good goin', blog!
DINNER: 6:15pm, 1.75 fresh sausages, 1.5 baked potatoes, ramekin of ice cream, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5
Picked up some random sausages at the market, experimented with frying in a pan. In butter, finished with crushed garlic. Removed sausages, through in a splash of rose wine and Worcestershire sauce, cooked out the alcohol. Salted, poured over the potatoes. A strong flavor, the rose was a bit too sweet, though.
Thursday, August 13
Wednesday, August 12
All day pizza
Spent the morning hectically at the restaurant, a breakfast divereted by L's lack of concentration. Had a meal at the resto, then went grocery shopping so I could go home and, urr, make pizza. My cousin and her kids were here visiting from ol' Cali fornia and made 'em a nice selection: a margarita, a garlicy spinach and ricotta, a shrimp & bacon, then a nutella and banana topped with powdered sugar.
LUNCH: 1pm, half a medium pizza, 2 pieces of bread, half a cream soda, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
DINNER: 6pm, slices of 4 different kinds of homemade pizza, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5
EVENING SNACK: 8:30pm, lemon cupcake, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
EVENING SNACK: 10:15pm, large piece of watermelon, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
LUNCH: 1pm, half a medium pizza, 2 pieces of bread, half a cream soda, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
DINNER: 6pm, slices of 4 different kinds of homemade pizza, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5
EVENING SNACK: 8:30pm, lemon cupcake, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
EVENING SNACK: 10:15pm, large piece of watermelon, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Tuesday, August 11
iPizza
I was supposed to be off on a trip today, but things got tangled so I stayed home. Spent the morning getting a new phone, then playing with it. B went out, and I spent 5 hours alone with the Edie. Off to the movies and dinner with friends.
Got a 'Pizza Finder' app on my phone -- now where ever I am, my phone will tell me where the nearest slice joint is...
BREAKFAST: 10:30am, bagel with cream cheese, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
LUNCH: 1:30pm, last night's rice with yuzu shrimp, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Gave the raw shrimp a big squirt of yuzu along with some oil, Worcestershire and hot sauce, really nice.
PM SNACK: 5:30pm, a couple of cookies, half a pint of ice cream, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
DINNER: 9pm, smoked trout over fava beans, roast pork loin and belly, chocolate tart, 1 beer, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5
Nice dinner out at Hearth with E&D.
Got a 'Pizza Finder' app on my phone -- now where ever I am, my phone will tell me where the nearest slice joint is...
BREAKFAST: 10:30am, bagel with cream cheese, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
LUNCH: 1:30pm, last night's rice with yuzu shrimp, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Gave the raw shrimp a big squirt of yuzu along with some oil, Worcestershire and hot sauce, really nice.
PM SNACK: 5:30pm, a couple of cookies, half a pint of ice cream, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
DINNER: 9pm, smoked trout over fava beans, roast pork loin and belly, chocolate tart, 1 beer, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5
Nice dinner out at Hearth with E&D.
Monday, August 10
Yuzu-fever!
B & I are talking about this Sunday being a trial run -- she'll leave the house at 8am and not come back until 5:30. Between those times, me & Edie will strap on our guns & go out big game hunting, ride 125 miles on bikes, compete in a yoga chatarunga-off, swim the length of the Hudson River, cook a 12 course meal. Or maybe try to get her to nap while I see a movie. What ever is more reasonable.
Thinking about this piece, about how scientists have codified what I already knew -- exercise and going to the gym is not a good way to lose weight, if you're just gonna eat more to make up for the calories you burned off. I weighed myself for the first time since I stopped working at the restaurant: 223.6. I was surprised -- I thought I'd be heavier, as I've been eating horribly. My fatty-fatt range is between 230-235. I think I only went 10 lbs lighter with the crazy minimal eating I was doing at the resto.
My friend P, who makes me look like Kate Moss when I stand next to him, has always expressed amazement about how I ride my bike so much, but don't lose weight. My bike riding makes my body strong, great cardio, etc, but to ride distance then NOT take in the calories I just expended makes me tired, cranky, uncomfortable and unable to hang out with the human race. I've accepted that biking is not really a weight-control thing. Even when I went cross country, I made sure to take in enough calories to maintain a very steady weight loss -- too much and there could be trouble on the road.
So what to do? It occurred to me if I'm gonna do this, there are two main things to tweak my life habits. 1) Eat a little bit less the majority of times, excluding logical times like bike riding and social occasions. 2) Cook more at home. I think as the months start to cool down, yoga and weights are gonna get ramped up, but the real way to maintain a slow, steady weight loss is by eating more home cooked food, and less food over all.
Unfortunately, around 9:30, the combination of the heat, the baby crying and both B & I having the same idea at the same time -- ICE CREAM! -- made me leave the house, get some, come back, and gorge a bit too much. So much for being good.
BREAKFAST: 10am, organic cheerios with the good milk, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
LUNCH: 12:45pm, slice of streetza, quart of gatorade, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
As I was up on the northern tip of Manhattan on my bike, realized I would like a slice of pizza. Mediocre slice joint, slightly crumbly crust, gluey cheese. Thought it was the most northern slice joint in Manhattan (Dykman and Broadway), but I saw a Papa John's about 5 blocks north near the Columbia fields.
DINNER: 7pm, grilled chicken breast with rice pilaf, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5
Nice having a load of chicken stock in the freezer that I made a week or two for no reason. Covered the bottom of a pan with olive oil and butter, sauteed minced shallot, then fried some sushi rice in it before covering with the stock, salt and a few bay leaves. In 20 minutes, it was some of the best rice I've made yet. Not "light", but toothsome and bursting with flavor that white rice is not known for. Some of the chicken breasts spared from the stock process, I sliced thinly, coated in a mix of oil, worchestire, dash of hot sauce and a splash of yuzu juice, a tangy Japanese citrus I've had in my fridge for a while -- kinda like a concentrated grape fruit flavor. Cooked up on a grill pan, topped the rice, this was kinda like a decadent, over-the top version of the sloppy chicken-and-rice plates you get from a vendor on the streets nowadays. The citrus acid splash made everything just pop nicely, gonna go yuzu-crazy next time I cook. Maybe seafood?
EVENING SNACK: 9:30-11pm, 4 ice cream cones, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
-sigh-
Thinking about this piece, about how scientists have codified what I already knew -- exercise and going to the gym is not a good way to lose weight, if you're just gonna eat more to make up for the calories you burned off. I weighed myself for the first time since I stopped working at the restaurant: 223.6. I was surprised -- I thought I'd be heavier, as I've been eating horribly. My fatty-fatt range is between 230-235. I think I only went 10 lbs lighter with the crazy minimal eating I was doing at the resto.
My friend P, who makes me look like Kate Moss when I stand next to him, has always expressed amazement about how I ride my bike so much, but don't lose weight. My bike riding makes my body strong, great cardio, etc, but to ride distance then NOT take in the calories I just expended makes me tired, cranky, uncomfortable and unable to hang out with the human race. I've accepted that biking is not really a weight-control thing. Even when I went cross country, I made sure to take in enough calories to maintain a very steady weight loss -- too much and there could be trouble on the road.
So what to do? It occurred to me if I'm gonna do this, there are two main things to tweak my life habits. 1) Eat a little bit less the majority of times, excluding logical times like bike riding and social occasions. 2) Cook more at home. I think as the months start to cool down, yoga and weights are gonna get ramped up, but the real way to maintain a slow, steady weight loss is by eating more home cooked food, and less food over all.
Unfortunately, around 9:30, the combination of the heat, the baby crying and both B & I having the same idea at the same time -- ICE CREAM! -- made me leave the house, get some, come back, and gorge a bit too much. So much for being good.
BREAKFAST: 10am, organic cheerios with the good milk, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
LUNCH: 12:45pm, slice of streetza, quart of gatorade, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
As I was up on the northern tip of Manhattan on my bike, realized I would like a slice of pizza. Mediocre slice joint, slightly crumbly crust, gluey cheese. Thought it was the most northern slice joint in Manhattan (Dykman and Broadway), but I saw a Papa John's about 5 blocks north near the Columbia fields.
DINNER: 7pm, grilled chicken breast with rice pilaf, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5
Nice having a load of chicken stock in the freezer that I made a week or two for no reason. Covered the bottom of a pan with olive oil and butter, sauteed minced shallot, then fried some sushi rice in it before covering with the stock, salt and a few bay leaves. In 20 minutes, it was some of the best rice I've made yet. Not "light", but toothsome and bursting with flavor that white rice is not known for. Some of the chicken breasts spared from the stock process, I sliced thinly, coated in a mix of oil, worchestire, dash of hot sauce and a splash of yuzu juice, a tangy Japanese citrus I've had in my fridge for a while -- kinda like a concentrated grape fruit flavor. Cooked up on a grill pan, topped the rice, this was kinda like a decadent, over-the top version of the sloppy chicken-and-rice plates you get from a vendor on the streets nowadays. The citrus acid splash made everything just pop nicely, gonna go yuzu-crazy next time I cook. Maybe seafood?
EVENING SNACK: 9:30-11pm, 4 ice cream cones, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
-sigh-
Sunday, August 9
Need to get my pizza on.
Heard a story on NPR about this Japanese dude who keeps a log of everything eats...by taking pictures of everything. The story went on about software that analyse what is in the picture and give a nutritional breakdown, which is both cool, crazy and scary. Scary: what if I ran a picture of Edie through this software. 132 oz protein, 84 grams of fat, 456 cc of carbs, 28 mg salt? ALL DELICIOUS?!
I'm getting a new phone with a better camera this week. I think I may mix up LTF (and Snicklesnack) a little by trying an all-photo format for a week. I mean, the public must see what the "good milk" looks like, how much .5 bowl of "good yogurt" is and just how big a sandwich is when placed next to a sleepin' bebe!
BREAKFAST: 7:15am, 2 good donuts, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Woke up at 6, got on the bike by 7, while eating these powerfully stimulating donuts, the overcaste sky started to drizzle -- the weather reports said thunderstorms all morning and afternoon, so I packed it in. Of course, said storms never happened...
BREAKFAST 2: 9:30am, 4 falafel balls, Israeli salad and a dollop of yogurt sauce, Gatorade, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
...which is fine, because I got to eat these good leftovers and play with Edie. Her smiles are really a result of interacting with people, and bouncing her on my lap to some of my favorite music while she gleefully shook her arms, legs and head randomly just kinda....ugh. I hope I don't get too sappy.
SNICKLE: 1:30pm, 1 vegan chocobite thingy
Still needing to go out and no rain, made it to what I was gonna do after the rain anyway -- yoga in the park with HVS and her posse!! Yaaay. On the grass (which smelled.....weird), with HVS helping me with the more difficult poses, it was hard but my body was happy after. Looking forward to more HVS-yoga-snickle action later this week.
LUNCH: 2:15pm, shrimp burrito, tiny salad, diet coke, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Went to mommainlaw's place on the UES to meet B&E, ordered in Mexican, cheap, plentiful. Funny, my memories of eating with my grandmom are 97% home cooking (BAD homecooking) and 3% McDonalds and Arthur Treachers. Will Edles food memories of her grandma be 3% bad home cooking and 97% restaurant food?
PM SNACK: 8:30pm, pizza slice, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
On the bike ride home, wanted to try the pizza joint on Rivington, whose slice was a few notches above the typical, to see if it was a fluke. And they were closed! 8:30 on a Sunday? That's not a good business plan for a slice joint, when there is so much competition....like the new slice joint on Clinton right above Delancey. Another shoebox, nicely designed decor, and the slice was not good, bad cheese, slightly dry crust. Maybe because dude behind the counter did not reheat long enough...
DINNER: 9:30pm, Stouffer's Frenchbread pizzas, momma-style salad, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5
Still, after one little slice, hungry and needing to get my pizza on. But went home because I wanted to be virtuous. Unfortunately, I had these in the freezer, got 'em for E who catsat for us this past week, but didn't gobble them up.
I'm getting a new phone with a better camera this week. I think I may mix up LTF (and Snicklesnack) a little by trying an all-photo format for a week. I mean, the public must see what the "good milk" looks like, how much .5 bowl of "good yogurt" is and just how big a sandwich is when placed next to a sleepin' bebe!
BREAKFAST: 7:15am, 2 good donuts, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Woke up at 6, got on the bike by 7, while eating these powerfully stimulating donuts, the overcaste sky started to drizzle -- the weather reports said thunderstorms all morning and afternoon, so I packed it in. Of course, said storms never happened...
BREAKFAST 2: 9:30am, 4 falafel balls, Israeli salad and a dollop of yogurt sauce, Gatorade, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
...which is fine, because I got to eat these good leftovers and play with Edie. Her smiles are really a result of interacting with people, and bouncing her on my lap to some of my favorite music while she gleefully shook her arms, legs and head randomly just kinda....ugh. I hope I don't get too sappy.
SNICKLE: 1:30pm, 1 vegan chocobite thingy
Still needing to go out and no rain, made it to what I was gonna do after the rain anyway -- yoga in the park with HVS and her posse!! Yaaay. On the grass (which smelled.....weird), with HVS helping me with the more difficult poses, it was hard but my body was happy after. Looking forward to more HVS-yoga-snickle action later this week.
LUNCH: 2:15pm, shrimp burrito, tiny salad, diet coke, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Went to mommainlaw's place on the UES to meet B&E, ordered in Mexican, cheap, plentiful. Funny, my memories of eating with my grandmom are 97% home cooking (BAD homecooking) and 3% McDonalds and Arthur Treachers. Will Edles food memories of her grandma be 3% bad home cooking and 97% restaurant food?
PM SNACK: 8:30pm, pizza slice, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
On the bike ride home, wanted to try the pizza joint on Rivington, whose slice was a few notches above the typical, to see if it was a fluke. And they were closed! 8:30 on a Sunday? That's not a good business plan for a slice joint, when there is so much competition....like the new slice joint on Clinton right above Delancey. Another shoebox, nicely designed decor, and the slice was not good, bad cheese, slightly dry crust. Maybe because dude behind the counter did not reheat long enough...
DINNER: 9:30pm, Stouffer's Frenchbread pizzas, momma-style salad, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5
Still, after one little slice, hungry and needing to get my pizza on. But went home because I wanted to be virtuous. Unfortunately, I had these in the freezer, got 'em for E who catsat for us this past week, but didn't gobble them up.
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