Eating Binge Past 4 days.

So this weekend started from 24th April 09, Friday afternoon and its now 28th April 09, Tuesday morning. Well my weekends are based on what was for food, how tasty it was (quality) and equally important how much it was (quantity). I have been binging these past 4 days and so far it has been awesome. Not a single meal disappointed me and it just got better each time.

Friday is work from home for me and i had a collegue over at my place. We decided on goingto this chinese buffet for lunch. The place is called "Bamboo" and it is an upscale restuarent and its close to my home. Its been about 6-8 months since i wanted to go there for buffet but never got a chance. So went there with an empty stomach with a very simple plan .. eat as much as is humanly possible. I love the crab rangoons over there and have attached a picture of the same. I had over 18 of these .. yep thats right 18 ... and also had samples of the chicken teriyaki, chicken wings, shrimps, noodles, chicken with peanuts and beef. Ended the meal with 2 scoops of green tea ice cream which wasnt all that good, so had about 3 small pieces of the chocklate cake. Wanted to go for another helping of the crab rangoon but did not find any company :(

Came back home 1.5 hrs later and could hardly move. Send out a couple of emails to my manager and went off to sleep. I slept like a log until neha woke me up aroiund 8pm and asked me if i wanted diner... I was like "no way" i was still so full from the $13 buffet and it was so worth it.

Saturday was a beautiful day in Boston and i went for a 4 mile run in the morning and followed that up with an hour and a half of cricket. Yeah baby cricket season has started ..FINALLY....

Then had a couple of errands to do, so wrapped that up and we were back home by around 4 in the afternoon. Neha had lunch at Chipotle and i was very tempted to have as well but managed to control myself.

Come evening and Neha asked if i wanted to have lamb. I dont

recall if it was Neha who brought it up and I forced her to :)But anyways we decided on making Hyderbadi Biryani. Looked up the recipe on the net and started helping Neha with it.Neha decided on making some Veg Biryani as well so she could enjoy it as well. It took about 2 hours to get the biryani done and i was starving by the time it was over. And the biryani was so Yummy. I loved it, the lamb was cooked perfectly, the spices in the biryani were almost perfect and Adwait does not eat Lamb meat. So it was almost all for me. And boy did i have a great time finishing it all up. Emties the entire cooker full of biryani and was having a hard time getting up. As always thanked Neha for the amazing amazing meal and for always trying something new for me :)

The picture however is of Mutton gravy "Aai Style" which Neha made a week back and it turned out perfect ... just like how Aai makes it back home and how i remeber eating it from my kid days.

Saturday came and gone, we moved to the lazy Sunday...

did nothing fruitful the entire day and was just lazing around all afternoon and evening.
Neha decided on maing cheesecake for us and for herself. Obviously chocklate for me and rasberry for her. We both love cheesecakes from "cheesecake factory", however they are ridiculously expensive .. about 8$ for a small piece of the heavenly godiva chocklate cheesecake. So Neha decided on making it at home. She had done it once in the past and it turned out great. Took her about 4 hours before it was finally done and ready to be served. So at around 8pm we sat down to eat this Great and godly chocklate cheesecake. It had a layer of cheesecake, then a layer of chocklate , then another layer of cheesecake and a small layer of chocklate. Topped it up with chocklate sauce and vola had the most amazing desert cooked all at home by the great Neha.

Monday was a usual day at work and for a change.. actually for

a big change Neha came home early, around 5pm. She wanted to go to the mall but as always i wasnt very agreeable. We did some house cleaning and Neha said she wanted to make cabbage, but somehow she ended up making chicken nawabi and panner butter masala.

and with Nan it tasted amazing .... the chicken was perfectly cooked and went very wel with the thick gravy and nan. The Paneer itself wasnt very good but Neha did something to it and voila like magic it tasted very yummy. I told Neha i would have 2 Nan and would leave some chicken for tomorrows lunch. 5 Nans and an empty Kadhai of Chicken later i was satisafied. My stomach was like "dude enough" .. all i ahve been doing for the past 4 days was eat, eat and eat some more.

But it was all worth it. I might be a couple of pounds heavier but boy do i feel good. Isnt this the whole point of following that strict 6 day fitness routine. Running atleast 20 miles a week and working on the upper body for 2 days. Just so that i dont feel guilty when i go on such a eating binge. The whole point of working out is so that down the road your doctor should never have to tell you "you cant have chicken, chocklates, fried food, grilled food or any other food that you like .. its only boring veggies for you and these tablets that you have to take twice a day for your high BP and for your weak heart... and Ooh by the way here is the 15 lakh bill for your operation , hospital visits and my fees...... Thank you please come again"

Its getting harder to RESIST the Temptation.

so it has been around 4.5 months, 137 days to be precise since i have given up eating meat and drinking alcohol. The first 3 months were alright, i wasn't craving for chicken and was content eating vegetarian food. All though i avoided going to my favourite places which had the best buffet or the sumptuous lamb shwarma or the amazing Hyderabadi biryani or avoiding Thai, Chinese, Italian, Mediterranean cuisines. i tried to eat only at Mexican places cause they have a decent vegetarian option. but when my friends ordered chicken or when i saw the menu with the steak specials i did not crave for it. i was alright with no eating it for a while. even when we went to a buffet i did not want to eat the chicken kebab or the lamb do pyaza or the shrimp masala. i was content with drinking mushroom soup and eating samosas, dosas and the paneer the sabzi. though it wasn't wort 14$ that I paid it was still alright.

But now when 9th April is so near i am getting crazy cravings. If not for chicken, i crave for something sweet every day after lunch and dinner. Yesterday i wanted to eat at this Mexican fast food place called Taco Bell really bad. i have never had such whims before but now its getting stronger each day. When my friend went to an Indian buffet place which had a delicious variety of tandoori chicken, biryani, lamb masala all i could think of is when would i be able to get there and eat em all. Even though i know that if i crave for something that i have given up eating then it does not count, but i cant help it.

All i could conclude from my little experiment is that its gets harder and harder as the day to end your experiment approaches. it might be due to anxiety or just the fact that you are so weak that you cannot go without thinking about it. As for me I am not sure if i am meant to give up eating things that i love and only time will show if i once again take up giving up meat, but for the time being i await the day i start eating meat once again.

Ooh by the way i forgot, to help me along the way (get the sarcasm please), Neha decide to make some yummy chicken for my room mate, not once but twice. I was lucky the second time since she left the chicken pieces for too long outside and they went bad. And frankly i was always hoping and secretly praying that something like this would happen. ya ya I know , i am sadistic and very selfish when it comes to sharing my yummy food. but then again that's me, take me the way I am rather than try and change me.