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Byline: Eve Macsweeney
Gayfryd Steinberg is sitting at her regular table at an Upper East Side Italian joint that acts as a semi-private dining club to its devoted patrons. She's dressed in a simple but sophisticated black skirt and blouse and almond-shaped, black-framed Chanel glasses that give her the air of a charmingly studious aunt. At 55, she looks 35, with the kind of presence that used to be called comely: attractive, svelte, and feminine but not the regulation, starved-to-a-lettuce-leaf size 2 of many of her peers. "I think there's nothing more boring than a woman who eats nothing," she says, ordering insalata bianca with chicken and a side of spaghetti ...