THE sky bridge connecting SM Northwing to SM City CDO Uptown has shortened the distance between the gym and the mall.
When the sky bridge was still under construction for a year or so, the gym rats — that’s us? — had to walk to the escalator and elevator which are located at the middle part of Northwing, go down to the ground floor, and cross the street in order to reach the mall. The walk served as an additional post-gym cooldown but if there’s a shorter distance between two points, we prefer the latter, of course.
Upon entering the mall through the sky bridge, food stalls are now there to welcome mall goers. They’re selling carbs as usual. Coffee, baked goodies, maruya, buko juice, buko salad, fruit salad, tapioca, ice cream, sushi. The only contribution from the protein department are the hotdogs. But they’re processed meat.
The maruya did trigger my carb cravings. I’ve not had one since forever. I just went through two and a half hours of Zumba and the HIIT FITT group exercise class, the maruya could have been the perfect post-gym snack. Add the buko salad to that and yum!
But I started thinking of the carbs’ side effects. Enough already. So, I went home to have my brunch of beef patties and pork lauya.
Each time I eat carbs, it’s like returning to Day One of my carnivore journey the day after. Good thing Fat Chef didn’t have bilo-bilo when we were there for my niece’s birthday dinner. We ordered ube turon instead, which is still carbs but it’s the better choice for me — at least I could stop after eating one piece. Because there’s no stop sign for me if it’s bilo-bilo.
During those days when I’m not feeling well, I always have to analyze why. Was it the carbs I had three days ago? Or the meds I took for the carbs’ side effects two days ago? And then, I whine and complain: But I’ve been low-carb for more than three years and trying so hard to be carnivore for more than a month now, I deserve a break from this elimination diet.
But there’s no break. The carnivore diet has to be practiced daily. Practice makes perfect.
How to practice that if carbs are here, there and everywhere? That’s the question.
But why is that my question? Should it be this instead: do Typhoon Tino flood survivors have food to eat? And it should be ready-to-eat food especially for the first two days after the floods. Canned goods like Vienna sausages, luncheon meat, beef loaf, corned beef, sardines, tuna. Plus the carbs: bread, cookies, biscuits, crackers. The most important is water, of course.
After the first two days, we hope survivors will have adequate help from family, relatives, friends, colleagues, and the government to help them move forward.
Tino wreaking havoc on Cebu and other areas in the Visayas might have reminded the Cagayanon of Sendong in December 2011.
Sendong prompted the Cagayanon flood survivor to relocate to the uptown area. And with the uptown area now teeming with subdivisions and commercial buildings, instead of trees, the more the downtown area will be flooded. Tsk tsk.
Manresa, for one, which is located in uptown CDO, is — or used to be? — a forest but it’s now being touted as the future BGC of CDO.
The uptowner is excited about the progress, though. But the old Cagayanon — hmmm, me? — still remembers the green and peaceful uptown when only Lumbia airport was buzzing.
