Monday, July 23, 2007

Gut Check

Stop me if you've heard this one: it's raining freaking sideways. WTF? We went from a gorgeous weekend with low humidity to relentless rainfall and 60 degrees. I'm trying to make the best of it, namely by scouring opentable.com for several meals this week. It's restaurant week when fine dining establishments scale down their menus and offer it to the proletariat class at prix fixe, that's French for, "Now you can eat here."

So tonight I'm having dinner at China Grill, then lunch at a Daniel Boulad restaurant tomorrow and at least two more meals will be at participating pretentious places if I have anything to say about it. All this fine dining is hardly the path to leaner pastures. I've gained back all the weight I lost after my trip to the homeland. It was so nice to not have to suck in my gut and imagine what a flatter stomach looked like. Now it's back as an ugly reminder of what happens when I give in to carb cravings.