Animal

SAW this posted on Facebook: “Katong mahadlok manganta kay basin moulan, please, this is your time to shine.”

Haha!

The hot weather has resulted to in-person class suspensions. And the rainy weather a few months from now will again result to the same class suspensions. Which is good news to students: No classes! Yay!

Perhaps it’s time for classrooms to have air-cons. But do schools have the budget for that? Hmmm. And tuition fees will then increase to dangerous heat index levels.

So, suspension of in-your-face, er, face-to-face classes is the best solution. The hot weather is temporary, anyway, it won’t last throughout the whole year.

Friday was a particularly busy day for me, so, there I was walking fast when I was outside, trying to escape from the hot weather that felt like 37 degrees Celsius according to the weather app but felt like desert weather in reality.

Business establishments, however, seemed committed in taming down the heat with the help of air-cons that felt like 17 degrees Celsius. Spring season yarn?

The hot weather prompts people to go malling and eat at Jollibee, which has become my favorite resto lately, thanks to the many Jollibee mukbang reels in my Facebook newsfeed.

Watching just one Jollibee reel can already convince FB that I love Jollibee. Thus, the many Jollibee reels in my newsfeed.

And watching other people eat Chickenjoy makes me crave for Chickenjoy and all other Jollibee products including the carbs: spaghetti, palabok, peach mango pie. But after the bum tummy, no thanks to the two bites of putomaya I had on Thursday afternoon last week, carbs are definitely my mortal enemies now.

And then on Friday morning, a friend sent me a photo of her breakfast which included mango, suman, and sikwate, thus, making me crave for carbs again.

By Friday afternoon, my early dinner was a Jollibee feast: Chickenjoy, chicken sandwich supreme, chicken nuggets, and Jolly hotdog. Yum! With baked biko as dessert. Oops.

Avoiding carbs takes a lot of A for A-fort since carbs are the stressed foodie’s best friend. Try overeating lechon while dealing with stress—surely you won’t be able to eat a whole lechon, even if it’s the cutest lechon de leche, unless you’re a carnivore.

By the way, there are people who still don’t know what a carnivore is. My shortest definition for that is this one word: animal.

Question: What’s your diet?

Answer: Animal!

I now avoid plants the way I avoid toxic anything. Because plants are toxic, too. That’s why they’re not yummy. If you’ve tried forcing a child to eat ampalaya, you know what I mean.

But plants—grains, veggies, fruits—remain popular for their nutrients and fiber.

In the low-carb community, however, we learned that an animal is the most nutrient-dense food, with the egg holding a special place in that hierarchy because of this: if it can morph into a chick, that can only mean it has all the nutrients that a chicken needs.

All the info on food can be confusing, so, it’s better to discover the diet that you can live with forevermore.

A diet that you can live with for only one day is like watching “Oppenheimer”—once is enough. Hehe. That must be the ampalaya diet. Good luck na lang.