It was inevitable.
I have not been watching what I eat for awhile now, probably since I ended my vegetarian ways. A new world was open to me. When I became a vegetarian I was excited about it but as time went on a new love of all kinds of food came over me and all I wanted to do was eat odd new dishes that I could have never imagined even existed. All this manifests itself into a lot of eating. And good eating at that - there have been copious amounts of burgers , hot dogs, and pizza - oh the pizza. While I am not at all abandoning my favorite foods - I need a break. Enter Silk + Sushi.
Yesterday morning after eating my usual whole wheat bagel and egg whites (made very well by Atlas Cafe on my block - they put a lot of pepper in the egg) I felt pretty damn awful. It is just too heavy for me that early in the morning. So in my sugar coma morning phase I surfed the internet for food stuff and found Silk + Sushi - a wonderful diet experiment by a Vancouver couple. They decided in an effort to help their waist and wallet they were going to eat 2 glasses of Silk Soymilk for breakfast, 2 glasses for lunch, and then have sushi for dinner, for an entire month. Brilliant. Go to their site - their recounts of dinner and revelations they are having are great.
So basically I am trying a modified version for the next two weeks - and of course will document it here. My modification is a bit of leniency and the addition of a little more food. Breakfast will be Silk Soy Milk and something else - some fruit - cereal - one egg and rice - who knows. Lunch will be something like a salad or soup - maybe some rice and chicken - something simple. And then dinner...sushi! And not too much sushi - I think for the past 14 or so years I have been ordering too much sushi - not any more (at least not these two weeks). My final modification is to give me one day to eat something different - preferably home cooked.
You might be thinking that this doesn't sound like much of a diet but already (1 day in ) I am feeling better. We will see. The idea is to jump start a new way of eating where I eat more to savor and enjoy then to shovel food in my mouth and in the process consume a good amount of sushi.
Here is a breakdown of day 1 (plus the dinner before day 1 where I decided to do this)
Day 0
Spring Sushi (That isn't the name of it but it sounds close - 3rd ave and 13th)
roll combo - tuna/yellowtail/california roll - miso soup
Total - $12
Day 1
Breakfast: 8oz Plain Silk Soymilk + Special K
Lunch: 2 slices of pizza (screwed up already!! free lunch at work on Wednesdays - oh well hopefully only the first slip up)
Dinner: Tab Tos - this is potentially the best place for sushi in the east village - family run (no tax!) and such good sushi - cheap too.
Salmon Special Roll (Salmon, Ikura, Avocado, Cucumber, Masago, and White Seaweed on the outside) + Tuna Tataki Salad (free!) + Eel cucumber roll (eel was grilled fresh when we ordered) - Total = $14
It tasted great and I wasn't overly stuffed or tired like I usually am finishing dinner.
I think this diet is going to be fun.