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Life got a little serious on me, so I'm here for a dose of therapy. Let's talk about pork.

Why does it have to be so good? Bacon should be a free food, like celery. Anyone else feel this way?

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Yes I agree! bacon should be a free food - my boyfriend always looks for the bacon with the most meat on it - why? I myself like a good mix of salty fat too - that's what makes it taste so good - you know the bite where you get a little crunch from the meat but the fat makes the piece melt in your mouth? In my best Homer Simpson voice - Mmmmmmmmmmmm bacon...

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HAM - it's all about a thick slab of HAM cooked til it's all brown and sugary on the outside and pink and hammy on the inside.

Bacon has to be properly rendered to be edible...

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Sausage, bacon, ham, PEPPERONI, salami, bologna, taylor ham, virginia ham sliced thin, mmmm mmmmmm I agree, it should be a free food, so should butter and sour cream.

Pork Fat Rules.... Emeril L.

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I love a pork loin cooked tender on the grill...

They tout is as the "other" white meat so some of it IS good for you.

But NOTHING is as comforting to me as the smell of Breakfast meats in the morning!

I like hot Pork rinds when drinking beer too, but haven't had any rinds and only a couple of beers since banding.

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I love pork, and still eat it too!

mmmmmmmmPork rinds I love them too! We used to make our own when my parents were alive. My Mom used to make the best ever.

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This is cracking me up! LOL!

Now I am craving bacon like a freak! I'm still on mushies....wonder if I could blend it? LOL!

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Pork is called "the other white meat" here because it is actually lower in fat than a lot of cuts of red meat. That is if you eat lean meat, not the crackling/rind, not bacon or other processed meat.

But you can cook a leg of pork on a rack in the oven over some Water and just remove the crackling, there's butterfly steaks and other thin, lean individual cuts of pork that are great to put on the bbq, or to grill, pan fry or casserole or stir fry.

I cant stand ham or bacon myself so dont hanker for those luckily.

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Speaking of Pork rinds - no I don't eat them - but I saw the darndest thing the other day in the Wal-Mart check out line - they had individual bags like microwave popcorn bags except they were microwaved pork rinds!!! Can you believe that? That's crazy!

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

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