Heavy-weight Eating in the Big Apple

I had to change into my loose shirt today. You know, the shirt that you wear when sucking in gets too hard and you just want to relax and let your gut hang. Loose Shirt at work is like Old College Sweat Pants (with holes) at home. That's right, I'm fashionable and practical.

An old roommate once noted that I eat like a 400 lb man. My new roommates make fun of my appetite but also learned quickly to stay away when I get the hungry pains. If you can't do anything to help, I say, get out of my way!

I don't deny that I take full advantage of my working metabolism and that I should never complain about "being fat," but I do have my limits -- said limit was reached last Saturday during a 15 hour tour of NYC with mom and Danny.

8:30 AM: We started off light. After an early morning train ride, we arrived at Penn Station and went straight to SOHO where we planned to have breakfast.

8:45 AM: Stopped by Dean and Deluca where we bought fancy overpriced coffee and a pound of muscat grapes to munch on throughout the day.

9:30 AM: Found Le Pain Quotidien, a bakery and communal table cafe on Grand and Mercer.Here's my egg salad tartin: open faced, a little mayo, capers, and salty anchovies. Also came with slices of tomato, cucumber, and a couple of mini gurken pickles.



11-1 PM: Next, we strolled through Chinatown and Little Italy. Sampled a cannoli (not the biggest fan), Italian napoleon, Chinese napoleon (flakier and with walnuts), and iced plum tea. For lunch we went to Da Nico's on Mulberry St, where Danny swears he had the best Cesar salad of his life. I wanted a "light lunch," so I shared a plate of steamed mussels with mom and had a bitter greens salad. Danny's Cesar salad wasn't as good as he remembered. And the service sucked. Oh well.

SIDE NOTE: Do you eat the poop in the mussels/clams?? I don't, but I feel like I'm wasting good seafood.

2-5 PM Eating so much made me want to either curl up for a nap or shop. Since we were in New York, we shopped. But not before a spin around Tasti-D-Lite and coming out with a non-fat chocolate vanilla swirl cone. Good thing that was fat free because I am really watching what I'm eating.

Not.

Power-shopped for 2 hours at Century 21. Dropped $200 but saved $200! -- so we're even.

Finally, we headed toward the big Macy's and Time Square. Macy's was having a flower show inside the store. I found it strange that people were taking pictures of flowers inside a store rather than going outside. It's one or the other for me. I don't do nature in a mall and I don't do shopping in a park.

8 PM: I'm not hungry anymore. But mom still wanted pizza. I was worried we wouldn't be able to find Brooklyn-good pizza in Time Square but we finally found a place that was decent.

8:30 PM: Concerned that pizza doesn't constitute a "proper dinner." Walked a mile to Carnegie Deli and ordered their famous pastrami sandwich and a salami sandwich.


Very funny...who are we kidding with the bread?

10:30 PM: Walked mile and half back to Penn Station. Yelled at my mom for coming to visit and making me eat so much.

2:50 AM: Home sweet home. Can't wait to see what's for lunch.