{"id":2086,"date":"2012-09-06T13:33:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T04:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-09-06\/2086"},"modified":"2012-09-06T13:33:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T04:33:49","slug":"diary-of-gluttonous-excess-last-nights-visit-to-the-kyoto-avanshell-bbq-beer-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-09-06\/2086","title":{"rendered":"Diary of Gluttonous Excess: Last Night’s Visit to the Kyoto Avanshell BBQ Beer Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Today's post is a followup to “Last Chance For the\nAll-You-Can-Feast Beer\/BBQ at the Hotel Avanshell Kyoto<\/a>” from the other\nday. Anthony and I went<\/span> again last night, and in the interest of science\nand to record history for posterity, I documented<\/span> everything that I ate<\/span> or\ndrank with grainy iPhone snaps.<\/p>\n\n

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As I mentioned in “Going Max Clich\u00e9 While\nLearning About Off-Camera Flash<\/a>” a month<\/span> and a half<\/span> ago, I've been\ngetting into pretty good shape (and even compared to that post, I am in<\/span>\nmuch better shape today) and one of the methods that seems to be working\nfor me is that I generally<\/span> avoid carbs. But especially<\/span> today, beer is one\ncarb I'll allow myself. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n

The first snap above shows my first beer (Asahi Super Dry) and the first\nplate of raw boneless beef rib. The amount<\/span> of beef would be, at most\nrestaurants, considered portions for three or four people. In what has<\/span>\nbecome my general approach to eating, I'm allowed<\/span> to have as much of anything\nas I want<\/span> so long as it's not carbs, so over the last few months I've been\neating a lot<\/span> of meat, so this falls in line with that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The restaurant allows you two hours ... for the purposes of this photo\nlog, I'm starting<\/span> the clock at zero (0h 0m<\/span>) with\nthe photo above.<\/p>\n\n

Eleven minutes later...<\/p>\n\n

\nBeer #2<\/span>\nElapsed Time: 0h 11m\n<\/div>\n\n

One needs refreshment after a long hot day, so the first beer goes quickly.\nBeer #2 is Asahi Black, representing the other half of the total beer selection on offer.<\/p>\n\n

\nPlate #2<\/span>\nElapsed Time: 0h 23m\n<\/div>\n\n
\nPlate #3<\/span>\nElapsed Time: 0h 39m\n<\/div>\n\n
\nBeer #2.5<\/span>\nElapsed Time: 0h 42m\n<\/div>\n\n

The keg had run out while pouring this one, but I was<\/span> happy to take it\nas is. Sometimes I ask<\/span> for just a half<\/span> glass anyway, so that I'm more apt\nto finish it while still cold.<\/p>\n\n\n

\nBeer #3.5<\/span>\nElapsed Time: 0h 59m\n<\/div>\n\n

At the half way mark, I've had 3½ beers and in Japanese-restaurant\nportions, enough beef for about 10 people. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n\n

\nPlate #4<\/span>\nElapsed Time: 1h 4m\n<\/div>\n\n
\nBeer #4.5<\/span>\nElapsed Time: 1h 24m\n<\/div>\n\n

I'm generally a “lightweight” when it comes to drinking, so I don't<\/span> tend\nto drink all that much, and even as recently as the start of the summer\nwould have forced myself to stop after two or three because that's all I\ncould<\/span> handle. But oddly, now that my diet and body has changed drastically, I seem quite<\/span> able to handle much more in stride. Very odd considering that\nI weigh<\/span> so much less than before.<\/p>\n\n

Of course, being able to handle it is one thing, and having it be\ngood for you<\/i> is quite another, so I definitely<\/span> don't want to make a\nhabit<\/span> of drinking this much, but again, this was a research<\/span> project for my\nblog so it was my duty to see the event through to the end.<\/p>\n\n\n

\nPlate #5<\/span>\nElapsed Time: 1h 37m\n<\/div>\n\n
\nLively<\/span>\nElapsed Time: 1h 45m\n<\/div>\n\n
\nBeer #5.5<\/span>\nElapsed Time: 1h 48m\n<\/div>\n\n

The lady in line in front of me for beer ordered a half<\/span>-n-half (half\ndark, half normal), so I did<\/span> the same. Looks the same as the dark beer by\nitself, which really isn't all that dark to begin with.<\/p>\n\n

And that wrapped it up.<\/p>\n\n

\nWater #1<\/span>\nElapsed Time: 2h 6m\n<\/div>\n\n

After we got home (taxi, of course), I thought<\/span> I should<\/span> increase the non-alcohol liquids in me, so I\ndrank<\/span> quite a bit<\/span> of Caffeine-Free Diet Coke while I worked<\/span> on my plugins<\/a>.\nThis is not marketed in my part of the country, but it's quite cheap to have shipped, so I buy<\/span> it by the case\nat Amazon.co.jp<\/a>. I went through<\/span> nine cases during the summer, allowing me to avoid the temptation to\ndrink calories. I just received<\/span> another shipment the other day, so I'm stocked through to the end of the year.<\/p>\n\n

Anyway, despite all the beef, all the beer, the water, and all the Coke,\nI didn't<\/span> feel bloated and my new bought-in-Japan jeans (for the first time\nbuying off-the-rack pants in Japan) still fit nicely, despite being the\nsame waist size that I wore<\/span> in high school almost 30 years ago. Very\nweird... as if my legs had been hollow.<\/p>\n\n

As a lark, I stepped<\/span> on the scale. With jeans and shirt, I was 85<\/span>.9kg\n(189.4lb). Earlier in the afternoon, after my workout and fresh out of the\nshower, I had been<\/span> 79.8kg (176lb), which is, frankly, a ridiculously<\/span> low\nweight for my 192cm (6'3½) height if my build were normal, but it's\nall muscle and no fat these days, so I'm happy with it. Anyway, that's a\nlot<\/span> of beef and beverage, more than 10 pounds even after discounting the\nweight of the clothes. I have no<\/span> way to explain how this is possible... I feel like<\/span> I'm inhabiting someone else's body. Sometimes I wonder<\/span> whether the “someone else's body” I'm inhabiting at the moment is even human.<\/p>\n\n

I woke this morning at 6:45am and felt just dandy. And, unusual for me, slightly hungry. I might<\/span> have an avocado as a snack<\/span> if the feeling persists.<\/p>\n\n

Oh, and I must admit to a certain amount of sandbagging with the photos\nof the beef... normally I would<\/span> put much more on each plate, using fewer\nplates, but in an effort to make the total amount seem even more\ndisgustingly excessive than it actually was, I showed<\/span> some purposeful\nrestraint at each trip to the grilling bar. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n

And finally, as a geeky side note, here's how I got<\/span> the elapsed-time captions on all the photos:<\/p>\n\n