Tonight I explored the sin of gluttony. One of the seven deadly sins. I might have been inspired to do this by bhank and his unbelievable ability to consume several pounds food, not to mention calories and yet have difficulty gaining the size he hopes to achieve someday. So, shame on you Bhank. Because it is now obvious, that your are the devil who is trying to lead folks astray.
I don't think I was planning on doing this. Although, I did buy a two pack of Filet Mignon with a total weight of a little over a half a pound, knowing full well that none of the rest of my family living here with me would have even one bite. In retrospect, maybe I was setting myself up to be a glutton all along and looking back, it seems I spent much of the day preparing to stuff my face at dinner time. I ate a really light breakfast, which consisted of a cup of Greek honey yogurt with a half a container of fresh raspberries and two cups of coffee with cream (not half and half), sans sugar.
I spent the bulk of the day gardening, which I love, but which was exhausting and I will pay dearly for it tomorrow. At 7:30 p.m. I popped a good sized russet potato in the oven to bake. My plan was to cook one of the two pieces of steak and save the other one for another meal. But I thought what the heck? Might as well cook both of them. Eight ounces of beef is nothing to what bhank consumes. If he can stuff his face with these many calories and fat at one time, so can I.
As I suspect you all well know, filet mignon is not very fatty....so a good way to cook it is to wrap bacon around the circumferance....which I did. Anyway, not to drag out this little reveal out all night, when the steak was done cooking, I cut a zucchini lenghtwise and quickly sauteed it in the same pan I'd cooked the meat in. When it was browned and still crisp. I plated my dinner, adding some butter and sour cream to the potato, then salt and peppered everything and carried it into the living room to eat, putting it on a TV tray while watching (what else?) CNN.
I am chomping away, thinking how delicious every bite is when suddenly I felt as if I put one more fork full of food into my mouth, I would explode. And what a fucking mess that would make all over the hand knotted Turkish rug. So, I wisely picked up my plate of remaining food, went to the kitchen and put the leftovers in a sealed container for another meal.
So here's the thing, there is a slice of delicious cherry pie in the pantry begging me to eat it. Should I do it or should I wait until my stomach doesn't look like the Hindenburg?
I am seriously wondering how it is humanly possible for anyone, no matter how dedicated to gaining weight (muscle) they are, to eat the quantity of food in a day that bhank says he does. Didn't he say he eats up to 10 lbs of food daily? What a wuss am I? I cannot even begin to consume what was max 2 lbs. without feeling like I would explode. I have a relatively fast metabolism. I burned a lot of calories today. And well, if you're still following me, you've read how there is no way this could happen. If you could, would you feel like you'd committed one of the seven deadly sins? The one of gluttony.
