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Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 66: Am I Too Skinny? Can Pigs Fly?

Posted by Ed Levine, May 8, 2009 at 8:30 AM

I would have bet any and all comers that pigs would start flying before anyone called me out in the blogosphere for being too thin. But that's just what happened this week. Let me set the scene for you, my merry band of serious eaters.

I was at our Hot Dog Hootenanny last Sunday, enjoying the festivities enormously, desperately trying not to eat a whole Chicago hot dog or an entire Papaya King frank or all six inches of a mighty delicious Bulgogi dog, or the full length of a Crif Chihuahua dog with bacon, avocado, and jalapeños.

I think I succeeded, but as there is no such thing as a hot-doggometer that reliably measures such things, I had to rely on my self-control, which can, well, be enormously unreliable.

But I did it. Well, maybe I did it. I think I slipped up with the Papaya King franks, mostly because those damn delicious dogs were in constant proximity as the Serious Eats crew manned the Papaya King station (thank you, Serious Eats crew). But what's one extra Papaya King dog among serious eaters?

The day after, we were rehashing the event at SE world headquarters when Erin sent me an IM with a link to another site's account of the event:

Went to the Hot Dog Hootenanny at Astor Wine Center today and it was a hoot! The Serious Eats gang led by a too skinny Ed Levine, Adam Kuban, et. al. were all there.

There it is, in black and white in the blogosphere: I am described as "too skinny."

Who would have thunk it? Not me, papacitos and papacitas. It's not true (oh, how I wish it were), but damn, those two little words sure made me feel good. Even if and when I lose the last 19 pounds and get down to 200, I won't be too skinny. But that's the kind of constructive criticism that I welcome.

The Weigh-In

Well, now that I got that out of the way I'm going to find out if I've moved any further in the "too skinny" direction. It's definitely been a trying week, with the hot dog event and the James Beard Awards "eatathon" that began at 9:45 Monday night and ended at 3 the following morning. But let's face it. In my life there are always going to be opportunities to go off the wagon in a big way. Here we go. Stuck at 219. I'm not too skinny. Not yet, anyway.

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