2009.114: We Now Return You to a Normal Diet (losing weight after #vinexpo)
I use the word "diet" not as some special regime, but in its primary
meaning, "[M. Webster] a: food and drink regularly provided or consumed
b: habitual nourishment". "Normal diet" is actually a pleonasm, sorry.
During the 5 days of tasting, one usually spits the wine. There are
lunches and dinners punctuating the tastings, and the food is either
pretty fatty - like the cheese and chicken kebabs in the press room - or
pretty French elaborate.
I have a bunch of simple eating habits I use to reduce quickly and
totally painlessly after these kinds of things. More importantly, the
weight stays off, unlike the usual patter of dieting.
Two of the most important are these:
Don't slather anything on anything. Less is more. Learn to savor
whatever it is you're spreading and get the strongest flavored version
of it. If it's cheese, use strong Roquefort or something like it. You
can spread that paper thin and no matter how fat it is, you'll be eating
very few grams of it. At 40% fat, gobbling up cheese is a guarantee to
gaining weight.
Buy some whole grain rice cakes and get the thinest sliced strong
flavored meat you can. A Paper thin slice of spicy sausage on one of
those rice cakes is intensely tasty and pleasurable, and the weight of
fat you are consuming is tiny. Plus, the whole grain rick cake is high
in fiber which will help your body deal with the fat and retail less weight.
After all the "abuse", I'm back to my normal weight only two days after
the crazy week.
