Beats fad diets anytime

I've been told several times in the last two weeks that I've lost weight, and generally quite a bit of it. I've been told by two Mexican (or Ecuadorian) runners (the guys who take food out), Richie, and Steve. Rachel (the extern who just left) and I were talking about it actually. She had just recently weighed herself and found that she had actually only lost one pound since she had last weighed herself just after Christmas. And since I don't have a scale and haven't had one for a couple of years, I have only a vague idea of what I actually weight. This would be a perfect example of not caring about numbers, I don't have a clue what they are. What I do know is that my pants are quite loose and people have commented. I guess that's what happens when you eat two meals a day if you're lucky and run up and down stairs constantly.

We're really starting to feel the summer kick in. We were just named the top seafood and top power lunch restaurant in the city by citysearch.com, which while not a sign of any sort of prestige at all, does bring business and is a sign of who our clientelle are. Our lunches are very busy, 100+ covers. Our dinners are dead, 80- covers. That may not seem like a large difference, but lunch is from noon to 2:30 and dinner is from 5:30-10:30. So it's super spread out and very slow and boring. Especially for me, since my dish takes about 2 minutes to plate and put out. Literally. I've timed it. This extra time has allowed me to hang out with MK (we had three Melissa's until last week when the pastry sous-chef left. Now we just have Melissa K and Melissa Rodriguez, or M-Rod) and M-Rod, who are our pm sauce and fish cooks. MK has been showing me all of her sauces, how they're made and garnished. It's really interesting, but there are so many that I can't hardly remember any of it. Also, it's so amazingly hot over in their corner that after 5 minutes we literally have sweat dripping off of us. And sweat dripping down one's back is an exteremely unpleasant feeling. My corner in the opposite side of the kitchen is substantially cooler, although we have yet to measure it. we're guessing that it's about 20 degrees cooler, around 80 maybe, while the sauce corner is at least 110 degrees. And very humid, since it's right next to the dish machine. So I'm pretty much a sweaty, stinky mess when I get out of work. Be glad you're not here with me. At least for that part of it.