The mushroom thread kept me busy today… @Fangs explained things so very well there…
And you guys here won’t see my fancy shrooms here.
But I have pork! It was all I ate today as it’s so fatty and it’s shoulders, the danger item. So I am careful. But today it was easy. I ate ~2250 kcal yesterday and my last meal was pork shoulders and it kept me so very satiated until Alvaro’s dinnertime… I was on the forum, not feeling any hunger but when I went down and looked at my egg pudding, I felt some weakness twinge (physical weekness, the “need for refuel” urge, not some mental weakness!)… And indeed, I could eat a substantial meal. My pork, some eggs and quark with sour cream, tried to keep the latter low, I needed protein more than fat.
I felt wonderful after my meal, didn’t need a long time to reach perfect satiation, I wasn’t in doubt about needing more food or risk night eating… One big meal is just the best. Or maybe 2 smaller but still substantial ones but I just can’t seem to get the hang of that most of the time.
Really fatty meat helps with bigger meals, it just gives me more fat than protein and it can be problematic. But it may work if it’s not too much work to focus on leaner items for the rest of my food.
OMAD makes things easier.
The weather is almost cold now! Hungary had its first frost (at least in inhabited areas, there are some famously cold places, some crack in the ground in some mountains) already, fortunately not here. 7C is cold enough even at dawn… I only met 12C this far as I don’t wake up early.
I am looking forward to warmer weather at this point. The house is still warm, 22C. 4 more Celsius degree down until we turn on heating (our lovely, effective, moderately freshly cleaned out AC). We usually start it when we come back from the cemetery+aunt visit around 25th of October (we always use the usually long weekend containing 23th. sadly, it’s Sunday now, no extra free day. still, it’s the best time to go. we can get wreaths for the graves already but it’s prettier and probably sunnier and warmer than later. it’s a small difference but it’s something). Poor house left alone for almost 3 days, it’s usually a serious hit for its temperature and it’s barely warm enough before. Some unusually warm days around that time help. I think we started heating in November twice since we have this improved house (10 years? the first year was problematic, our windows got delayed, we had no windows in early November… that was a bit tough. but it was memorable when we had no upper level and it was raining too. we kept living in the house that was seriously rebuilt, new upper level and obviously roof, new windows, modified main door, some extra walls, even the basement door went to another place… we successfully lost the chimney along with some walls around there… the nearly passive house level insulation was a tiny thing compared to this… oh the terrace lost a bunch of pillars as well as the upper level changed its size somehow… or they weren’t connected? the proper pillars stayed, these were decorative wooden ones. IDK how we did it…).
I am extremely chatty today NOT related to food… I feel I think and write a bit less about food now. And today I had to cook SEVEN different things. Some were easy, just boiling the stuff and I didn’t do them all at the same time (I don’t even have enough electricity for that. what is it called… googling… current!) but still! But now I am done for the week, mostly. I will still fry or boil eggs or do something similarly difficult 
I roasted all my leftover pork shoulder and tasted some, it’s quite good! Fatty, lovely, pink, tender! Better than the too quickly fried, somewhat chewy part but I gladly ate that too.
I usually don’t like pork shoulders this much, somehow it seems less fatty this time, the pure meat is similar to pork butts, it just have more fat layer. But I am sure it’s not as fatty as it used to be…
If I was into conspiracy theories, I would be sure it is actually pork butts sold as pork shoulder, the cut without the price cap…
Whatever, I got some nicer than expected meat and it’s not like it was oh so expensive. $4.85/kg aka $2.18/pound. That’s nice.
And I got a little lard out of it so I can fry eggs in lard again, they don’t need much!
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Some hours later and I managed to bring the CF card upstairs and even made some lame photo of my roasted pork! It had 4 vaguely similarly sized piece and only that bite left from one.
And my fried pork. I had 5 eggs, some quark with sour cream but they didn’t look as interesting and it’s tiresome trying to assemble my whole meal when I can’t possibly know how much I will eat.
Apparently I ate until I reached 120g protein. It’s a bit creepy… I didn’t just eat until I reached it and got satiated, I stopped and did something for a while and then decided I need more pork and had more pork… I could have eaten more. Or less. But I stopped just at the point that I could guesstimate 120g again, for the zillionth time. I do have higher protein days but the rest is around 120g lately, no matter what. 1 meal or 5? A bit leaner or fattier? I stuffed myself or I was hungry for a while after a meal? Doesn’t matter, it’s 120g in the end. Fat varies, protein just rarely and it’s always 120g or more. How on Earth can it be this accurate? 
Even with the inaccuracy of my tracking though protein is probably closer to reality, fat is the mystery macro on fatty meat days.
But I could pull a day off based on this fatty meat, yay! I was very modest when it came to my meat but it was pretty satiating so no particular self control was needed.
I have no idea about my fat intake due to fatty meat with its mystery fat content but no way I ate too much. But as I did it in one go, I am perfectly satiated. When I say this normally? No, that isn’t THIS perfect. It’s another level, apparently.
It was my most satisfying meal since long. But it’s always the case when I eat fresh pork I am not bored of anymore after some time…
Oh and my workout went very well today! 
I only had 1 hour walk and kind of missed my “usual” 2.5 hour one but I do that (actually a bit shorter than that) tomorrow, I walk to the village to buy 50 eggs. Cycling would be quicker but I love walking around the big pond (the road for cycling is more boring and there is too much elevation, I need to train but it’s still not nice to stop to rest every time, usually 3 times in total as it’s too steep both ways), I may see a blue heron or an egret, I don’t see them on my normal small walks lately…
But I saw a huge hairy black/brown caterpillar yesterday, it obviously belongs to one of the biggest moths here… They are beautiful as caterpillars and moths alike.
it was very very tender like pulled pork.
