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Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 88: Are Bananas Helping or Hurting My Weight?
I Lurve Bananas. [Flickr: ian_ransley] After avoiding bananas for much of the past forty years because my mother once told me they are too fattening, I have come to embrace my inner banana. Bruised or unbruised, perfectly ripe or ripe enough, bananas have actually played a key role in my serious diet. Why have I become a banana-come-lately? Because a perfectly ripe banana is almost as creamy and sweet as a bowl of ice cream. I usually have at least two bananas a day. Sometimes I buy a whole bunch of unripe bananas at Fairway, let them ripen, then have one for breakfast with exactly one tablespoon of peanut butter. With my newfound peanut butter discipline I can actually do...Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 87: Do Weights Help You Lose Weight?
"Will the weights help me lose weight or just license to eat more?" Last week many of you suggested I vary my exercise regimen to lose the last 15 or so pounds I want to lose. Specifically, a couple of serious eaters mentioned that weight training could re-set my body's thermostat and rejigger my natural metabolism. This notion intrigued me. I've never been much of a workout person. In fact, I've never worked out regularly, though I did take spinning classes regularly about ten years ago. I do love to play sports that involve hitting and chasing balls, though. I play squash three times a week year-round, and when on vacation, I switch to tennis. But maybe I do need...Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 86: Is 200 Pounds Out of My Reach?
"The thing is, I'm not really fat any more." A couple of months ago I remember posting about my readjusted weight goals. Feeling confident and almost giddy with delight from all the success I've had in the last year and a half, I proclaimed that I was headed for 200 pounds or less. I still hope to be, but I see that the road to 200 pounds is filled with potholes, which in my case is a combination of pot roast and doughnut holes. Though there may have been one fluky week when I dipped below 210, my weight has been fluctuating between 211 and 216 for the last four months. It's been kind of discouraging because now I don't...Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 85: Can a Dentist's Drill Help You Lose Weight?
"I intentionally scheduled my dentist visit for a Thursday afternoon so I could reap the benefits of not eating much for dinner." [iStockphoto: tolgakolcak] Yesterday I went to the dentist to have two crowns put on, one on an upper tooth and one on a lower tooth. I have an aversion to going to the dentist. I guess I associate the dentist's chair with pain, discomfort, and the whirring sound made by what I regard as an instrument of torture, the dentist's drill. And I feel this way even though I go to a first-rate dentist who is reasonably sensitive to my feelings of dentist dread. I was in that chair and shot up with a sufficient amount of novocain...Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 84: Do You Ever Scare Yourself Into Eating Less?
"Many thanks, serious eaters, for all the shout-outs of support and encouragement." I scared myself into not eating last week, and not just because of what I ate on the road in Chicago. Erin pointed out that my real downfall was the double meal I ate last Tuesday night. It started with oxtail, shepherd's pie, jerk chicken, leg of lamb, and goat at The Islands with Erin and Carey. Then it was (and this was the killer) two pork roasts and two fried chicken recipes from Donald Link's and David Chang's books that Cook the Book's Caroline Russock made at her house for a cookbook competition we are participating in. So when you think about it, my two-pound weight gain...Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 83: Bad Road Food Habits in Chicago
"There was more delicious Chicago food to be had, and I had it." Pizza from Great Lake. Read all about my visit here » I thought I had licked my road food problem--the one that gives me license to eat insane amounts of food when traveling. I convince myself I may never pass through that town again. Then I went to Chicago and the Windy City got the best of me. The first day, Robyn and I had barbecue at Honey1 BBQ, hot dogs and duck fat fries at Hot Doug's, frozen custard and Boston Shakes at Scooter's, pizza at Great Lake, and an espresso malt nightcap at Bobtail, a well-regarded Chicago ice cream shop. I tried to eat everything...Does Burnt Toast Cause Cancer? Maybe
[Flickr: The Treacys] Over on The Atlantic Food Channel, food policy writer Marion Nestle discusses the dangers of charred toast. Canada recently added acrylamide, the carcinogen that forms on burnt toast, to its list of toxic substances and the European Union is calling it a hazardous chemical "of high concern." But then you have Dutch reports saying there are no real links between acrylamide and cancer. So maybe burnt toast isn't as bad as swallowing a cigarette but just to be safe, you should probably aim for golden to golden-brown on the toast color spectrum. Related Egg in Toast: What Do You Call It? What bread makes the best toast? [Talk] Serious Eats Gift Guide: Toast-Related Accessories...Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 82: Peanut Butter Portion Control
Peanut butter is my weakness. Once I start eating it, I can't stop. Armed with a spoon or knife, a loaf of bread, some jam, and a glass of milk to wash it down, I am a peanut butter-eating fool. But after losing more than fifty pounds over the last year and a half, maybe I'm finally able to eat just a little and still be content.Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 81: A Frank Chat with Frank Bruni on Being 'Born Round'
"I was objectively chubby by age four, fat by age six, and was on the Atkins diet for the first time at age eight." --Frank Bruni Photographs by Robyn Lee For all of the serious eaters who overdosed on the hype surrounding Julie & Julia (hey, the back of my head was in the movie, so if I'm guilty as charged there's a good reason for that), I'm giving you a heads-up that the hoopla accompanying the publication of Born Round, now former New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni's memoir, is going to make Julie & Julia seem like it was an under-the-radar phenomenon. The book is in stores today, so let the Bruni media madness begin (it actually...Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
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