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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