Diet Day Two

Someone make it stop.

  ~~ Me, this afternoon

The first few days of a diet are often the hardest. Looking up why this should be, I found a quasi-medical website that explains the hunger pains as “your body adapting to burning fat instead of sugar.”

So I plugged that into google and guess what came up?

“Starvation.”

It all makes sense now.

Introduction to Japanese Cuisine

Tomorrow, my wife and I will start a diet that will result in having a very narrow selection of foods. In fact, we’ve already bought everything we need for the coming week.

In anticipation of this ordeal, we decided to enjoy our last day of culinary and gastronomic freedom by eating out for both lunch and dinner.

Our favourite Japanese restaurant being fully booked (it always is, it’s really annoying), we decided to try the restaurant at the newly-minted Japan House on Kensington High Street.

Kid Menu Of The Day: Beef Stew

Our ongoing efforts to diversify V’s palate included, this week, slow-cooked beef stew with vegetables.

She enjoys naming everything she eats, so the meal is punctuated with, “Carotte?”, “Pomme de Terre?”, except there are sounds she can’t make yet so it comes out as “Ca-otte?”, “Pom-te?”

Somehow she still manages to put a large amount of food on the floor and on herself, even when she’s not trying.