My Manhattan diet: Sara Pilot
Age: mid-40s
Profession: fashion stylist
Breakfast: one latte, two boiled eggs, kombucha gingerade drink, one banana
Lunch: butternut squash, one small slice of whole-wheat spinach-and-ricotta pizza, lentil soup and a few bites of a chocolate chip cookie at ABC Kitchen 4 p.m.: sugar snap peas, carrots, apple chips and a cranberry kombucha
Dinner: a few bites of whole-wheat bread, a glass of white wine, balsamic tricolore salad, grilled salmon and sauteed spinach, berries and a biscotti, mint tea with honey
Exercise: morning spin class at SoulCycle
Jonathan Baskin
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My Manhattan diet: Kit Krugman
Age: 26
Profession: creative manager at a communications company
Breakfast: steel-cut oatmeal with bananas and pecans and a large cappuccino at Le Pain Quotidien
Lunch: Pret a Manger quinoa and hummus salad with lemon/olive oil vinaigrette and avocado
Dinner: two glasses of Rioja at Corkbuzz, prosciutto, aged goat cheese, aged gouda, side of Brussels sprouts
Later: split ceviche at Mayuela, two “Hit or Miss” mescal drinks
Exercise: 20-minute walks to and from work, a chisel class at Crunch
Jonathan Baskin
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My Manhattan diet: Monica Joshi
Age: 46
Profession: physical therapist, owner of Back in the Game Therapy on the Upper East Side
5 a.m.: cup of tea
5:30 a.m.: a hard-boiled egg
7 a.m.: another hard-boiled egg and a cup of low-fat yogurt with a little granola and a cup of coffee
Noon.: a huge salad with broccoli slaw, half an avocado and a whole breast of chicken with olive oil
3:30 p.m.: 20 almonds
6:30 p.m.: salmon steak with asparagus and spinach and three tablespoons of ice cream
Exercise: 44-minute walk back and forth from bus stop to work, one hour of Pilates and a 20-minute intense bike ride at the gym
Astrid Stawiarz
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My Manhattan diet: Danyelle Freeman
Age: 37
Profession: founder of Restaurantgirl.com and author of “Try This: Traveling the Globe Without Leaving the Table”
Morning-midday: For breakfast it’s two cups of black coffee, Greek yogurt with chia seeds and blackberries. Lunch is a hijiki salad and fresh sushi. Snacks are honey ginger candy, a big scoop of peanut butter, a bag of Pop Chips and an orange.
Dinner: Wong in the West Village: two glasses of Pinot Grigio, and a sampling of the following dishes: calamari salad; appetizer of scallops, duck tongue and jellyfish; shrimp fritters; a noodle dish; a side of collard greens; a chocolate snowball with blackout cake; chocolate pudding covered in a meringue; duck ice cream.
Exercise: morning exercise class at my sister’s fitness studio, SLT (best described as Pilates on crack!), 16-block walk to a meeting
Tamara Beckwith
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My manhattan diet: Monique Meneses
Age: 28
Profession: freelance writer and publicist
6 a.m.: Starbucks tall skinny vanilla latte
9 a.m.: Fage Total 2 percent Greek yogurt, one hard-boiled egg and a small French vanilla coffee with a splash of half-and-half and one Splenda packet.
12:07 p.m.: Peeled Snacks Much-Ado-About-Mango
1 p.m.: Order in a spicy tuna roll and eel-and-avocado roll, miso soup, side of edamame
4 p.m.: five dark chocolate mints
8 p.m.: Dinner with two friends at Beauty & Essex: We share one kale-and-apple salad, oven-braised chicken meatballs, spaghettini and lobster tacos. Drink one “Emerald Gimlet” cocktail.
Exercise: 7 a.m. SoulCycle class
Jonathan Baskin
