We're seriously considering changing our eating habits - to three huge meals a day.
Breakfasts of sliced meats, cheeses, and vegetables, sauteed mushrooms, yogurt and cereals, pastries, buttered breads and croissants, scrambled and boiled eggs, bacon and sausage, carrot/peach juice and orange/pineapple juice, and hot tea.
Lunches with various combinations of brotwurst, gyros, ghoulash, pizza, weinerschnitzel, soups and lots of french fries.
Dinners of liver dumpling soup, broccoli cheese soup, spinach dumplings, potato balls, more schnitzels and french fries, Texas spaghetti (we didn't know there was such a thing either, but had a delicious plate full of it in Salzburg), and desserts - strudels, ice cream, chocolate, and crepes with whipped creme.
And BEER - lots of it. Every day. More beer than water. And not that light, low-calorie or low-carb stuff, REAL beer.
Seriously, after eating and drinking all this and more, three huge meals a day, for two weeks, because this is how you eat and are treated on a Rick Steves tour, we were sure we'd gained several, if not many pounds. What a delightful surprise to timidly step on the scale the morning after we returned home to find neither of us had gained a pound.
Perhaps the result of all those calorie burning walkabouts. Or the Baden Baden spa kur. YOLO!!