Pulled Pork, Walking, Super Bowl

I've been eating more red meat lately than I want to, including pork, which the USDA classifies as red meat. Since I cooked the boneless pork shoulder that I had in the freezer I can't let it go to waste.

I just ate a pulled pork sandwich with Everett and Jones BBQ sauce, lettuce and tomato. If we analyze the contents of that sandwich it's pork, lean but with some fat in it, although again, not much fat, (rationalization) on a French baguette which is high in qluten, and breaks down into sugar , BBQ sauce which is largely sugar again, and lettuce and tomato (guilt). I just finished that sandwich and I want another one. Two months ago I would have made it without hesitation telling myself, "Hey man, you work like a dog with dogs, 8 days a week, every week, why deny yourself something you love. Why I bothered with the lettuce and tomato is any one's guess. Rationalization and guilt.

I'll have a big salad tonight, but before then I'm going on a 4 mile hike in the East Bay Regional Park, and that should just about walk off that pork sandwich. I've already done 3 miles today, and it's only 11:00 AM, so I think I'll be OK today.

I know I've been writing about walking a lot these days, but that exercise is what is keeping me in shape. You can't loose weight without the component of exercise. I actually get paid to walk, so I feel very lucky in that regard. I have these two clients in Piedmont, Ed & Jeanette, and I've been caring of their dogs for 15 years. They are now on their second set of dogs. Anyway, there's this gentleman that  lives down the street from Ed and Jeanette, and I've been seeing him and saying hello to him all these years. He walks with two hiking poles. The other day I just had to stop and ask him how many miles he logs everyday, and how old he is. He told me he recently turned 91, and he doesn't measure his walks by miles, but rather by time, and he logs between 1 1/2 to 2 hours a day. This old bastard is in phenomenal shape, and he has a great attitude about life.

Unless you're living in a bubble here in the bay area the SF 49ers will be playing the Pittsburgh Ravens in the Stupid Bowl. It's a classic tale of Kane and Abel with the Harbaugh brothers going head to head. I'm not a gambler, that would have been my father Rocco, but if I put a bet on the Ravens to win. Now, I know I'm committing treason being a long time Bay Area resident, and the 49ers have given me and all the people of the Bay Area many great moments, but that's how I see it. I use to sell Joe and Jennifer Montana cheese at Oakville grocery back in 96'. I hope the 49ers win, but I don't see it. If they do it will be the best 100 dollar I've ever lost. FYI, the odds makers favor the 49ers to win this confrontation. The Ravens are pretty beat up, but they have two weeks to rest. That could help them or hurt them. Rest didn't help the Cardinals in the World Series. The flags are already flying. Well, I've been wrong before. Could be fun.

Here's my tip for the day. Hot house red bell peppers are cheap right now, .99 cents a pound. That's a great deal. Get em while they're cold.

That's enough goat shit for one day.

Peace,

Make Food/Not War


Food consumption: 1-21-13

Breakfast: granola, bananas, strawberries, soy milk, plain black tea

Lunch: Pulled pork BBQ sandwich on baguette, lettuce, tomato, orange juice

Dinner: 1 hard boiled egg, little cheese and a piece of baguette, 1 1/2 pieces of Tilapia, salad w/red bell peppers, cucumber, radishes, vinaigrette, 3/4 cup of wild rice.

Snacks: 2 handfuls of nuts and raisins, orange juice

Exercise: 8 miles walking