David's Cuban Cafe

I stopped at Davids on 11th and Collins on the way home. Cuban coffee is made like expresso with sugar, they put a couple of teaspoons of sugar in each tiny cup. It tastes amazing actually but it is not inline with my weight loss goals to be wasting carbs like this. The girls (figures like bulldogs) do not approve of people asking for no sugar, one is viewed with deep suspicion on this account.

Love

I spent the morning drinking coffee and reading Richards collections of Love Magazines. Beautiful photography and really interesting short articles on the kind of people I actually want to know more about.  The demise of print media in a digital age has done the world a favour in one way. Only the really good titles survive and the interesting alternative media was always online anyway.

Nothing Tastes As Good As Thin Feels

Except cheese fries from Shake Shack and German Chocolate Cake from Icebox. My own version of the South Beach diet has begun. I am starting with a kind of a fruit detox.  Breakfast & Lunch were fruit salads, with coconut water on the beach and detox tea at home. Also about 3 large cups of Starbucks coffee which is not something that appears on many diet sheets and yet is an essential component of mine.  I am having dinner with a girl from London - we are meeting at Wholefood's so I should have plenty of healthy options to choose from.

Breakfast

Fruit salad and raw food cookies from Wholefoods.

And coffee of course.In fact I had two cups of coffee to get me out of the apartment.

In the beginning was the word ......

I used to say that coffee was my first thought in the morning. I now think that my relationship with coffee has gone beyond that. There is coffee. There is how I feel about it. There is how I feel without it. So if we were to meditate on these three concepts and yet some how go beyond it into some pre caffine big bang scenario then we would be coming closer to the understanding of what it is and what it always shall be.

I need you but I'm not gonna crack

I totally cracked and went to Wholefoods and got coffee and 2 tiny 99 cent cupcakes. They were perfect actually just enough. They had massive cupcakes for $2.99 but I really didn't need to eat that much. I just needed a little sugar to improve my mood. These two were divine. I fed the crumbs to a cute little Sparrow that came by.

Miami Sparrows are a little bit more pointy than UK Sparrows, they are braver, more forthright and have slightly longer legs. I sat outside eating my cakes and I noticed as I was watching people come in to the store that many of them were really very thin. I don't really have a problem with people being weight conconcious because obviously I spend a great deal of time thinking about that kind of thing myself. I do however believe that a great deal of the culture around health, food allergies, intolerances etc is actually just a manifestation of body dysmorphia and food disorder. Either way there was a high incedence of anorexia in Wholefoods this afternoon.

Breakfast

Cuban Coffee from Daves Cuban Cafe. They make it very strong with sugar, I didn't have sugar. The taste is like when you put the tip of your tounge on a battery. I feel really excited though.