Ali Michael Has a Thing for Burnt Food
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Day 1 (edited by me)
Thursday, March 5
7:30 a.m - awake
I (try to) drink water as soon as I get up because apparently that's good for you.
7:45 a.m - oatmeal with cinnamon, walnuts, figs, and coconut oil in it.
I love coffee.
12 - I work out with my trainer
After I work out - get a protein shake that I made up: almond milk, banana, ice, hemp protein, spirulina, and cinnamon.
4 p.m. I'm hungry, but have dinner plans at 7:30, so I don't want to go too crazy. I eat a Fage 0 percent yogurt with honey.
My friend asks to go to dinner a little later, so I eat one of these beet-carrot-apple Popsicles I bought at
Life Thyme Market.
8 p.m - Takahachi. I almost always get gomae, a tamago sushi, salmon sashimi, shishito-pepper skewers with no sauce, and a salmon-skin hand roll.
I get home and eat a square from some bar of dark chocolate that I got at Whole Foods.
Friday, March 6
Breakfast - usual oatmeal and detrimental-to-my-health instant coffee.
I'm working a half-day starting at 11 a.m. and planned on going to the gym before, but decide to sit on my ass instead.
I usually bring my own food on shoots because I don't like eating food when I don't know what's in it. ... but I already ate, so I take a piece of smoked salmon.
They bring out lunch a few hours later. I'm not that hungry, but they have this thing that looks burnt, and I want it. I love burnt food. Someone tells me it's some kind of quinoa burger. I eat it, and I guess it had quinoa in it, but I really have no idea.
Around 5 p.m., I'm hungry again and eat a yogurt I brought with me.
I get off at 6 p.m. and...I order from
12 Chairs — this place below my apartment. I live on the sixth floor of a walk-up building, so I don't feel that bad about ordering delivery from a place downstairs, even though I probably should. I get a Swiss-cheese-and-spinach omelette, because for some reason that sounds good, and falafel, because that sounds good, too. When it comes, I eat the eggs and realize that eggs and falafel is a very strange combination. I save the falafel for another time.
Saturday, March 7
Oatmeal and coffee for breakfast.
I wake up and am in so much pain from my trainer the other day. Holy shit. I don't know why it's ten times worse than it was yesterday, but it is. It literally hurts to move at all. I go to the gym and struggle mentally and physically to do 15 minutes on the StairMaster and some half-assed floor exercises.
I get a protein shake on the way home
I eat a yogurt around 3 p.m. and get hungry again after a while, so I eat leftover falafel from last night. It is still delicious.
I go to dinner with friends at
Izakaya... I get the burdock salad as an appetizer, which I don't want to share with anyone, and then share the chicken nanban (this is heaven) and some other things with the group.
Sunday, March 8
Oatmeal and coffee.
I go to the gym and eat yogurt when I get home. I walk around Chinatown for a while and am tempted to get bubble tea, which is one of my favorite things... so I don't buy it and am sad.
7:30 - It's weird because I'm extremely stubborn about some things, but with food, if I get too hungry, I just can't make up my mind. I am unable to decide whether to get sushi from
Hasaki, meatballs and salad from
Sauce, or soba from
Souen.
After a long and hard internal battle, I order from Hasaki. I get a salmon-skin hand roll and another roll that is eel and avocado wrapped in cucumber.
I strategically stay over until 11:45 p.m., and my friends and I walk to
Milk Bar to get cookies before they close at midnight. Unfortunately, I was recently introduced to Karlie's Kookies. I go home and eat half because I have incredible self-control, until I eat the other half ten minutes later.
Monday, March 9
Fucking oatmeal, obviously, for breakfast. God, I hate myself.
12:45, as I'm walking back to the gym, I get extremely hungry. I get a protein shake downstairs, and it's not ready until 1 p.m., which means I show up to my workout with the protein shake and drink it as I work out.
3 p.m., eat some yogurt with honey, go to a casting, and get a "Super Duper Greens" (ugh) juice at
Juice Generation. I don't like green juice with a bunch of fruity shit mixed in. Apple or pear is the only fruit I want in it.
My point is that I didn't eat the candy underwear, but I was curious about the idea when I saw them at Babeland.
I go home and bake a lotus root with Japanese sweet potato. I eat the sweet potato for dinner with some rotisserie chicken from Life Thyme.
Tuesday, March 10
I totally mix it up and have granola with almond milk for breakfast! It's this kind called "Hemp & Greens."
I am shooting a video where I will be in full-body latex all day today, so I have to be mindful of that.
I don't eat a normal full lunch, but also don't want to be robbed of happiness. So I eat a
Ladurée pistachio macaron that I bought last night in preparation for this moment.
I eat a bit of grilled chicken and salad from the catered lunch, because it's another good spread today.
And around 4:30 p.m., someone brings Toblerone bars, so I have a couple of pieces of those and pray that the Latex forgives.