Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 30: 'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Scale
The week didn't get off to a very good start. Saturday we went to visit friends in Block Island, off the coast of New London, Connecticut. Beautiful place, and our friends Arietta and Sam really showed us a good time, food and otherwise. Arietta loves to bake, so upon our arrival, she presented us with a platter of amazing chocolate chip cookies. The next day we had scones and a cobbler from a pretty good farmer's market baker for breakfast, excellent burgers for lunch, and lobsters and corn for dinner. Anyway, you get the picture. A fine relaxing weekend with good friends filled with good food.
We got back Sunday night. I got on the scale Monday morning and discovered I had gained two pounds on our little Block Island Idyll. So I've been playing diet catch-up all week. What does my idea of diet catch-up mean?
I made sure to review a sushi restaurant, I played squash Tuesday and Thursday, and I've been eating a lot of bananas and those small boxes of yellow raisins.
The most difficult night of the week was Monday, when we hosted a 90th birthday party for my mother-in-law. We served crabcakes on tomato and corn salad. It was a perfect plate of summer food. The crabcakes weren't the problem. The cake, which came from Yura (where in fact all the food came from), was, as my mother-in-law requested, a chocolate cake with mocha icing. You are going to reading more about this cake in a future post. It might have been the best birthday cake I have ever eaten. I only had half a piece, so I hope to at least get back to even when I jump on the scale.
The Weigh-In
Here goes. 245. Wow! I actually lost a pound. It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. As for my scale, my beloved Thinner, I wanted to show it some love, so I kissed it. To paraphrase the late Jimi Hendrix, "'Scuse me while I kiss the scale."
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8 Comments:
good job ed! that cake sounds like my perfect one as well, there's no way i would have been able to limit myself to half a piece. excellent restraint!
sarahlucy at 10:07AM on 08/22/08
It's funny...I put sushi in the delicious diet food category too. Is sushi diet food? would make a great post!
Congrats on the weight loss.
arugulafiles at 10:16AM on 08/22/08
Congratulations for hopping back on the diet wagon. Many people get discouraged after a weekend of being "bad" and just bag the whole thing. So good for you for sticking with it!
For what it's worth, you probably didn't gain 2 lbs of body fat during your weekend of fun - you would have had to eat 7,000 calories over your normal amount to do so (1lb body fat = ~3500 calories). Most of those 2 lbs is probably just water. If you were eating low or moderate carb prior to your weekend, that could account for it (stored carbohydrate in the form of glycogen holds 3 times it's weight in water). Drinking alcohol can also cause water retention as can eating a lot of salt. Drinking lots of water and exercise (squash!) are very good means of flushing out fluid.
ilovebutter at 10:22AM on 08/22/08
Sushi isn't really much of a diet food unless you're going with sashimi. The rice is a ton of calories as is the loads of sugar they're putting in when they're mixing it. Trevor Corson pointed this out in his sushi book.
synaesthesia.dc at 10:55AM on 08/22/08
Baby steps, if you want to be successful in the long term, it's all about baby steps. It sounds like you are doing the best you can, making an effort most of the time, and not being so strict that you don't enjoy life. perfect recipe! Good luck!
rockymountainmarta at 11:56AM on 08/22/08
You go, Ed! Every pound is a victory.
Brownie at 1:21PM on 08/22/08
good for you Ed!!! keep up the good work!
huneybumper at 9:26PM on 08/22/08
my osteopath's office is a block from there, and i see her as often as she'll let me, just for yura's apricot walnut scones and sour cherry cobbler!
cybercita at 11:29PM on 08/22/08