Healthy Eating - New York
Healthy Eating - New York
#1Healthy Eating - New York
Posted: 10/17/16 at 1:56pm
As we know there is a weight problem in America and the United Kingdom is going the same way. However when I go to New York, I find it healthier than elsewhere in the states and it seems to me they take their diets more serious than elsewhere. I am one of these people who is obese and diabetic, so trying to lose weight, I have lost 30 pound so far.
When I go out to New York in a couple of weeks I want to maintain a reasonable healthy diet and be happy if I stayed the same weight or put on a couple of pounds,I would be very happy. So have to knock those pancake houses on the head.
I would love to find out where you New Yorkers go and healthy Ameicans are definitely included in posting, I appreciate any tips here guys?
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#2Healthy Eating - New York
Posted: 10/17/16 at 2:09pm
You'll have no problem. With notable decadent exceptions (many worth the indulgence), most New York eateries offer a variety of healthy choices like simply grilled or roasted mains and salads. You can almost always find something light.
#3Healthy Eating - New York
Posted: 10/17/16 at 2:20pm
Great news, but where? I used to love the Delis, have a monte cristo and a cookie, but that is a no no now.
#4Healthy Eating - New York
Posted: 10/17/16 at 2:33pm
What exactly are you looking for? Full service places or more casual grab-and-go type of food? Or both? Also, does neighborhood matter?
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#5Healthy Eating - New York
Posted: 10/17/16 at 2:46pm
Delis are everywhere in NYC and they almost always have healthier alternatives to Monte Cristos and black and whites. You'll have no problem ordering a tossed salad with grilled chicken (with lemon if you don't want dressing) or a sandwich of plain lunch meat (or tuna or chicken salad), lettuce and tomato on a wrap if you don't want bread. Seriously, it's not hard to find healthy food anywhere in NY.
Of course, if you are looking for some more specific advice, as AC said, tell us what neighborhood and what kind of food, and if we can we'd be happy to help.
#6Healthy Eating - New York
Posted: 10/17/16 at 3:32pm
Around Times Square and I am more of the more casual diner.
The suggestions so fa so great. Also by where I am staying is the food emporium supermarket on 42nd, but if I recall it is quite expensive?
#7Healthy Eating - New York
Posted: 10/17/16 at 4:08pm
You can always go to a Pax or a Chop't and grab a salad with some chicken or turkey. A lot of the diners in the Times Square area (Westway, Theatre Row, etc) have low-cal options.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#8Healthy Eating - New York
Posted: 10/29/16 at 9:34pm
Any other great suggestions? Anywhere you can get sushi, I mean made on the premises - so it is still fresh and tasty, not made on some industrial in Jersey and shipped in?
UncleCharlie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/26/16
#9Healthy Eating - New York
Posted: 10/30/16 at 12:44am
Unless you were planning on buying sushi at a gas station quikmart, most places, even supermarkets make their sushi on-site these days. But don't knock Jersey sushi. I hear they use Hudson River water to make the rice so it has that extra tang.
#10Healthy Eating - New York
Posted: 10/30/16 at 4:03pm
There's loads great sushi in the area. My favorite is, I believe, across from the Hirschfeld. They have lots of choices and rolls named after Broadway shows. The Kinky Boots roll is amazing. I've never been in a sushi restraunt in the area where I couldn't see the people making the food.
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dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#11Healthy Eating - New York
Posted: 10/31/16 at 3:19am
^^ Kodoma. 45 & 8th....heres an entrance on each street, but the 45 st entrance is the restaurant main entrance.
A ltitle more expensive then it used to be, management change, but still quite reasonable, and I've never been disappointed.
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#12Healthy Eating - New York
Posted: 10/31/16 at 5:55am
We like City Kitchen a lot-- it's at W44th St and 8th Ave, 1 floor up from the street tucked into the corner of Row Hotel. It's a hipster food court, with great sushi, plus a good range of Korean, Chinese, Mexican counters etc. Only drawback-- seating is at a premium at curtain time.
44 1/2 is at W 44th and 10th Ave. Great salads and grilled mains with sidewalk seating if the weather's nice.
Even at a great French bistro like Marseille (W 44th at 9th Ave) you can get an amazingly healthy frisee salad. Just decline any baskets of bread and you'll be fine.
Cupid Boy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/13
#13Healthy Eating - New York
Posted: 10/31/16 at 7:58pm
If you're into fresh pressed juice, which is one of my favorite ways to incorporate vegetables into my diet, I'd recommend Pressed Juicery. When I'm seeing a show, I go to their location near Columbus Circle in Turnstyle. I just try to stick with the options that have no other fruit besides lemon to avoid unnecessary sugars, and the green drinks tend to be my favorite. The options with beets are also quite good, though.
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#14Healthy Eating - New York
Posted: 11/2/16 at 12:51am
Juice Generation is one of my favorites. There's a ton around Midtown. But my favorite place to eat is "Glaze." You get a salad, rice, and a protein (salmon, tofu, chicken, steak). It's delicious and it's healthy. And it's not that pricy. I eat there at least once a week. And honestly, I mean if you want something healthy, you can always go for a Chipotle/Moes and just take out the dairy, etc.
