Today was a day full of edible pleasures.

In the morning I had a plate of eggs, bacon and broccoli

I grabbed a banana and ate it on the way to my landscaping class where I snacked on a apple, ate another head of broccoli, and a bunch of green peppers, I then went to lunch with my lovely friend Mary and had half of her chicken salad with it had my leftovers from dinner, a large slab of beef, later we went to follow your heart for a delicious date and vanilla ice cream shake.

I biked to my fathers office, picked up and devoured some chocolate he had brought for me and we shared a root beer from Australia I had brought.

From there I raced home and started to enjoy the diner that had been left out for me. Biting into the chicken, chewing up the cucumbers as Ryan my roommates friends showed up.

We are going out to a sushi restaurant they said.

And well, I was generously invited to what is now one of my all time favorite restaurants. Its called New Light and Healthy Sushi and their sushi is good. Not really good. Just good. Hand made by a chef in front of your eyes, its what you would expect from a quality establishment.

Here is the twist: for 25$ you can have all you can eat of everything on their menu, on the condition that you finish what’s on your plate before you order again. And no skipping out on the rice. You have to eat it all.

Challenge Accepted. 

I’m absolutely giddy to be ordering all I want but I’m no fast eater.  The four of us are  chatting and taking our time to pick out everything on the menu we want to try. They say it takes 15 minutes for your body to realize its full and after twenty minutes Tyler and Chad are done. 

I’m so used to avoiding grains I’m  getting high off the sugar spike and everything is sparkling.

Ryan has barely ordered anything, and I’m high on rice. We are just getting started.  Tyler and Chad looked on in horror as Ryan and I just started ordering plate after plate of food. Sushi Chef Henry is just starting to look nervous when we agree that:

“Dude we could sooo eat all the octopus in this restaurant.” 

And so it begins. “Henry 2 pieces of Octopus please *omonomonom* Two more Henry!”

And so on. “The secret to eating forever,” I begin with a mouthful  of rice and octopus tucked in one cheek “is to digest the food WHILE you are eating. See I’m going to poop all this out tonight, my poop is going to smell like sushi. I’m going to lean over the bowl and smell my poop.”  

Sugar High

The plate of octopus in the bar gets smaller, until at last we are down to the last four pieces.

“THAT’S IT. YOU ATE IT ALL” Chef Henry Shouts.

“are you sure there isn’t anymore in the back- I begin.

“NO MORE THAT’S IT” Henry says, Crossing his arms. “WE HAVE NO MORE OCTOPUS”

“YEAHHH WE DID IT” Ryan and I high five as we stuff the last of it in our mouths.

We walk away happy men knowing that we ate at least a couple hundred dollars of sushi that day. 

As we pay the bill we talk about how next time we should totally fast the day before so we can eat even more.

The Cashier, she looks scared.