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oh that does sound exhausting! Good for you!
alligatorob
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Well I paid for yesterday, I was only able to do about and hour and 20 minutes in the gym before I gave out. Came home and got a nap, I feel better now.
So far so good today, but the exhaustion did seem to make my cravings worse. Under control now.
Thanks, but I think I over did it. Today is going to be a bit slower.
Thanks! I is the biggest keeper grouper I have ever caught. There is a bigger species the goliath grouper (formerly called a jewfish), I have brought much larger ones to the boat, but you can't keep them. This one had filets that weighed about 15 pounds each. Already eaten one, really good fish.
So far so good today, but the exhaustion did seem to make my cravings worse. Under control now.
That's an amazing fish photo - I thought you held it close to the camera to make it look humongous at first! Glad you got to keep it and make wonderful steaks out of it. 6 hours of moving sounds really exhausting. Glad you came home from the gym once you realized how tired you were! Naps are the best.
alligatorob
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Yesterday turned out well, even with the fatigue. By the end of the day I was ok, and slept really well last night.
Thanks Emily, grouper do "binge" a lot, but instead of getting fat they just get bigger. Here is a video from youtube of one eating a shark. Fortunately they almost never bother humans.I think that fish might have a problem with binge eating too! Great photo!
They have really nice white meat, one of my favorites. I am sure you have them in Australia, but Tasmania may be too far south. Lots of different grouper species worldwide, they are found in most tropical and semitropical waters. It's possible you call them something else. Fish often have different names in different places.
I have been guilty of that, LOL. Here is a not very good picture of the biggest one I have ever brought to the boat. It probably weighed 800 to 1,000 pounds, but we released it. Swam off fine, just tired for the experience.
Thanks, having to release most of the big ones is frustrating. When I was a kid there were no limits, we brought home a 350 pounder once, filled our freezer and a couple of friend's freezers.
Yep.
I find napping can help fight off a binge urge. However when waking from a nap the urges can be worse...
That must require some kind of strength and skill to reel one that big in! Amazing one person with a fishing pole can catch something that big! Glad you were able to sleep off all the tired. I guess helping people move is like a few free trips to the gym. Do you think you binge eat to alleviate stress, and that maybe you are subconsciously translating feeling tired into feeling stressed? Are there good books on binge eating and how to manage it do you know?
Glad the day turned out well and that you got some good sleep in Rob!
Oh wow, that one's the size of a horse!
Interesting. I only ever wake up hungry after either not eating enough or binging the day before. Never bingey after naps. But then we are all different.
Cate
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Having lots of Grouper in the freezer would be excellent. https://fishing.tas.gov.au/species/groper-blue
We have venison & wild rabbits mostly in ours.
We have venison & wild rabbits mostly in ours.
alligatorob
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Yesterday was not a bad day. Only problem was that I had a big piece of zucchini chocolate cake for dinner. Not so much a binge as all I could find after a long day of cutting and pulling down trees. I was tired. But I feel fine this morning. Today will be a bit more relaxed for sure.
I looked it up and found: "Worldwide, there are about 160 species. In Australia, about 70 species are known". However due to your cold waters most are found further north.
And of course groper or grouper have different names in different places. Sea bass is common, though not everything called a sea bass is a grouper. When I was in Kuwait and Saudi the local grouper were called hamour.
To be honest for the big ones we have to trade off, I could not pull one that big in alone. It can require a lot of exertion for well over an hour. My biggest ever fish was a 12 ft (almost 4 m) tiger shark. Caught it when I was a kid with my father and brothers. It pulled our boat around for 4 hours, we did a lot of trading off. These days once I realize I have a shark I will break or cut it off, to much work for something you can't eat. Same goes for those big, but not legal groupers.
I'd like to think so.
Sometimes my bingeing is to relieve stress, sometimes not. I can binge just as easily unstressed as stressed. I know there are lots of books on bingeing and eating disorders, I have not read much of them. Do you have a suggestion?
Yeah, but it tastes better! Have to say though I have only eaten horse once, in Italy, did not seem much different to me than beef.
Yes, but I think we mostly share the same food demon, just showing different faces.
Thanks for the link, I did know about your blue groper (or grouper). It seems you (Australians) say or spell it differently, but so far as I can tell its the same fish. Problem with common fish names is they don't always make sense. Most groupers are in the serranidae family, though not all fish in that family are called grouper. And some of what we call grouper are not in the family. Your blue groper is considered a grouper, but it is not in the same family... go figure.
I looked it up and found: "Worldwide, there are about 160 species. In Australia, about 70 species are known". However due to your cold waters most are found further north.
And of course groper or grouper have different names in different places. Sea bass is common, though not everything called a sea bass is a grouper. When I was in Kuwait and Saudi the local grouper were called hamour.
Do you hunt?
Pulling down trees now? I thought you were a moving business! Retirement sounds exhausting
The best Leberkäse is Pferdeleberkäse!
alligatorob
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Thank you! I needed your absolution
Cate
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That cake sounds delicious & it has a vegetable in it, right?
We don't hunt, but we know people who do & we buy deer from one guy who farms them & rabbits form a guy who works with our older son & who goes ferreting. We're having rabbit today. G uses a West African recipe for chicken & rabbit.
We don't hunt, but we know people who do & we buy deer from one guy who farms them & rabbits form a guy who works with our older son & who goes ferreting. We're having rabbit today. G uses a West African recipe for chicken & rabbit.
alligatorob
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Today was a good day, father's day. We had a big gathering, family and extended. I barbequed one of the big grouper filets, it was good. I ate well enough, but had another piece of cake, smaller than yesterday. A friend brought it. Based on its name I just had to eat a piece. Not sure if it lived up to the name, but it was pretty good, LOL.
Some days it is, LOL. We bought a house on speculation, it is a unique property. Has a spring fed pond, a real rarity in the Utah desert. However it has lots of invasive Russian Olive trees, they are awful, huge thorns... Now I am trying to get rid of them. I put a cable as high up as I can and pull with the tractor. That way I get the roots, don't leave stumps. The biggest one was about 70 cm in diameter and 25 meter tall. I was amazed that I could uproot it, but it took a lot of pulling from different directions, it finally came down. Problem is my chain saw gave out so I couldn't get it cut up. And there are more and bigger ones, this will be a long project. Probably rent the house out, but it needs work first. The house isn't much but the pond and property is.Pulling down trees now? I thought you were a moving business! Retirement sounds exhausting
Had to look that up, a kind of horse meat meatloaf it sounds like. I see nothing inherently worse about eating horse than say cow...
Absolutely! I am sure it counts as at least one veggie, LOL.
You must like deer and rabbit. I've eaten both and like them, but have no ready source here. I could deer hunt, but have not in years, don't think I will again.
I had to look up Russian olive tree. They're reasonably common here as park trees but not a threat to native plants, possibly because anywhere the soil is poor enough for that to be likely it's also cold enough that the fruit doesn't ripen. Those are some huge trees though: you have your work cut out for you!