Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 42: Mind Over Manna
I had lots of lunches and dinners out this week, so my resolve was being tested on a twice-daily basis most of the week. I was with a chef friend/fellow dieter this week at my favorite ramen place Ippudo. He summed up our situation quite well: "Hey, we're fat guys who don't want to be fat any more. So we just have to eat half of what we're served." And that's just what we did.
There we were, slurping and spooning down bowls of delicious noodles, incredibly flavorful broth, and wonderful, just fatty enough slices of Berkshire pork, having a high old time, enjoying ourselves immensely, when we did the heretofore unthinkable.
Fifteen minutes into our bowls of stupendous soup we just said, in the immortal words of the great fighter Roberto Durán when he sat in his corner of the ring and didn't come out for another round of pummeling and pounding: "No Mas" (No More).
More "No Mas," after the jump.
Delicious broth, noodles, and even pork were left in the bowl, uneaten. And the good folks at Ippudo don't even let you take your leftovers home because their delicate noodles cannot be reheated without doing them irreparable harm.
"No Mas" is my dieting battle cry, my weight loss mantra, my call to thinner arms.
After my ramen lunch I found myself saying "No Mas" at four more restaurants this week. It wasn't easy, but I did it. And I hope it worked, scale-wise. As of yesterday I was even for the week. But yesterday I had a business lunch where I ate half an entree salad of smoked lamb (way oversmoked) and a dinner with friends where I just nibbled on the many delicious plates of pasta and cured meats. It wasn't an ideal "day before public weigh-in" regimen, but sometimes it's hard to control these things.
The Weigh-In
234! Down two more pounds. More "No Mores" in the offing, to be sure.
I'm even going to try saying "No Mas" at Thanksgiving. It will be hard, but I'm sure going to try. Happy Thanksgiving to all the Serious Eaters from this oh so thankful serious eater.
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