Ever think your body's smarter than you are?

Ever think your body's smarter than you are?

Got up this (Monday) morning feeling good. Taught a motorcycle class this weekend, so lotsa hard work walking/moving traffic cones/talking in the 90^ heat. Great weekend, fun fun. Whipped last night, slept like a rock, woke up this morning feeling like a jillion pesos.

So I got up and took the pups out for 5 min, and then I came in an hopped on the elliptical. 30 minutes of that, moving the load around a little, keeping the heart rate right around 150. Good-n-sweaty.

M-W-F mornings I knock out some freeweights. About 1/2 hour. I just bought a little more iron and added about 5 pounds to my dumbbells and this was my first morning with the heavier weight. Felt good - several exercises went to failure. Kewl...

Shower - dress (nothing fits?!) - bowl o'grapenuts out in yard w/dogs, nice morning. Came back in, kissed babygirl g'bye (she leaves for work earlier than I do) and started packing lunch.

Now this weekend we made Carolina BBQ. You take a big cheap pork shoulder and wrap it in alum foil and put it on a broiler pan so it doesn't lay in it's own slop. Put it in a just warm oven - about 180-200 degrees - overnight at least. "Cook until you're sure it's done,,, then 2 more hours".

When it came out my gal separated and shredded the meat. I usually get this done in 10 minutes. She worked on it for nearly an hour - being extremely careful to get rid of every morsel of fat, and shredding the lean meat into a very fine texture. This stuff is really healthy the way she does it.

I make a "finishing sauce" to serve with it. Really powerful stuff. I usually work a little into the meat and then park the bottle on the table and you can add more to taste. Recipe below.

So - anyways, I'm packing my lunch this morning and decide to take a BBQ sandwich. Get out a hamburger bun (bad I know, but I'm just eating one) and load it up with 3 oz's of meat. Sprinkle with sauce, put the top bun on and stuff it into a baggie. Made a bit of a mess - strands of pork everywhere. Whaddaya do?

Ya - - you know what you do. You pick it up and eat it. So I'm standing there still pumped up from the iron, muscles all torn up and just starting to heal the little tears that make ya' big - wide awake and jittery and humming like a radar antenna and just got taste of raw protein. Wow,,,,,,

The next 3 minutes is a blur - I bet I shoveled down 3 or 4 ounces of that stuff. Fridge cold,,, sprinkle of sauce and just feeding the machine. Wow,,,

I needed it and I ate it and I don't regret it a bit. I probably could've stopped myself, but I don't know... sure didn't want to. I have room in my plan for an extra 300 calories on workout days, and I really think what I experienced was a response to a physiological need. The body found a way to get what it needed, and I was along for the ride. Very interesting, very compelling. The caveman is still in there,,, we get a peek at him once in a while.

Happen to anybody else lately?

Pork - Fresh, shoulder, arm picnic, lean only, cooked, roasted, 3 oz
194 calories
0 carbs
11 fat
23 protein :laugh: :bigsmile:
81 cholesterol
68 sodium

Casper's pulled pork finishing sauce
1 cup vinegar
2 Tbs. Salt
1 Tbs. Brown sugar
1 tsp. cayenne pepper
1 tsp. Red pepper flakes.