Fishy Diet

So, about this diet. It all started at the end of February when I saw a posting on Craigslist for free fitness training. A company was looking for people to participate in a workout program that would show weightloss and muscule building results. I forwarded the posting to Ed who figured it wouldn’t hurt him or his career to, at the very least, go to the audition. The quick story is; he went, they liked him, they cast him and he started it March 29^th, two weeks ago today.

As I explained before, the product the company is selling is a piece of equipment that is intended to be used in kickboxing classes. Kickboxing is a great workout for the body but seemed to be lacking a workout for the arms and abs. The “Shadowboxer” solves that problem. To demonstrate the Shadowboxer’s effectiveness Ed and about 20 others are participating in a 12 week exercise and diet program. So if Ed is counting calories and watching his fat, carb and sugar in take, what is he making for dinner?

Health conscious but delicious meals take some creative thinking. I have been pretty impressed with what Ed and I have come up with. We have had several tasty and healthy meals in the last two weeks. The only reason I haven’t yet blogged about them is because I forget to take pictures of them. I am so hungry when I come home from work that I just scarf down the food. Friday night I remembered to pause long enough to digitally capture our meal. I didn’t much care how the images turned out I just wanted to snap a couple and eat!

Ed made blackened Mahi-Mahi fish tacos. They consisted of frozen Mahi fillets (Costco, 2lb. bag), spice rub for the “blackened” flavor, whole wheat tortilla, fat free sour cream, lettuce, avocado (from my boss, Greg’s tree) and hot sauce. Apparently hot sauce is good for diets; spicy foods force you to burn more calories to digest them, or something.

Fish is a wonderful food. Perfect for diets because it is low in fat and has lots of…um…good qualities and is healthy, yeah. Therefore, sushi is prime diet food! Right?
That was our reasoning behind checking out the new sushi restaurant by our place this weekend.

Portion control is a big part of dieting and our portions at Crazy Rockin’ Sushi were completely out of OUR control. First of all the sushi was absurdly delicious, and we have had our fair share of really good sushi. Crazy Rockin’ Sushi has only been open 10 days, they haven’t even gotten their liquor license yet (so they haven’t done any advertising yet) but they are doing what ever they can to impress their few customers. They started by giving us a complimentary appetizer short, special sushi roll, then our combo dinners were made right in front of us (we sat at the bar) with a couple additional pieces of sashimi, then the sushi chef (say that 5 times fast) whipped up a “sushi pizza” for us to share (this was truly unique and amazing) and finally a special complimentary dessert of sliced oranges, whipped cream and chocolate even after we had moaned our delights with full bellies to the friendly chef. In short, we highly recommend Crazy Rockin’ Sushi at the West Hollywood Gateway (where Target is across from our building).