Day 2 - Gelatin

It's Day 2!

I started my day off with a Bagelful and a Coke cocaine.
Beautiful.

As I nom'ed my Bagelful, I had the intense fear that there was some kind of gelatin in it.

Prof alerted me to the face that Jell-O has gelatin in it.
Do you know what gelatin is?!

It's nasty.

gel·a·tin

Definition of GELATIN

1

: glutinous material obtained from animal tissues by boiling;especially : a colloidal protein used as a food, in photography, and in medicine

;A;
IT HAS MARROW. AND SPARE PARTS. IT'S LIKE A MICKEY D'S CHICKEN NUGGET!!!

DAMN YOU BILL COSBY. 

YOU DO THAT, BILL COSBY

I'm bitter.
So now I find myself checking ingredient labels, highly suspicious that it's lying to me.
I checked the label on a can of Redi-Whip last night and found myself giggling and clapping when I saw the ingredient carageenan. So geeky.

Oh, what a joy my new life will be.

~

I'm beginning to feel my outlook changing. Hypervigilance is key, because I DO NOT want to ingest gelatin D:
But I'm pretty damned sure I'm going to end up eating it anyways. Damn.

(Btw, I had felt horror at the thought of gelatin before my Pescetarian Initiative. My fear is now multiplied tenfold.)

OH DEAR GOD DO KRISPY KREMES HAVE GELATIN IN THEM?!


I really need to research.
Because now I'm paranoid.


Last night I went to my local 7-11 Wannabe (really, it would be more aptly named Redneck Mart. This place is the equivalent of a miniature grocery store/gas station/True Value/laundromat/ABC/lotto/tobacco outlet/cafe/plant nursery/whatever else you can imagine.)

Just. Like. That. 

As a mini-grocery store thing, they offered an entire freezer section full of slabs of meat and taquitos and chicken nuggets.

Dear God.
What a way to taunt me, Redneck Mart.
Bastards.

It was tough, looking at everything I'll (hopefully) never eat again.
But I was able to reinforce my new initiative by gagging at the sight of meat. Yuck.



I've been torturing myself with thoughts of Red Robin.

Yummmmmm....

I'll never eat a burger again. 

I mean, maybe I will. But I dunno...

Unless it's a sketchy boca/veggie burger. 

Oh yeah, I'm excited. 

D;

So away we go. 

But I'm not afraid. I don't obsess over burgers, and at least at college, the burger selection isn't encouraging. (I should take pictures...)

At home, my new initiative is being supported, which is chill. 

My dad has already said it won't be hard for me, sinc e I don't eat that much meat at home anyways. He's already promised to make up for the meat I don't eat by eating my share. 

I'm chill with that too. 

I told Prof about my new goal. 

Prof was receptive, but I feel as though they had a 'raised eyebrow' response. 

You'll see, Prof. You'll see. 

My Pescetarian Goals/To-Do List

• Take it day by day
• By the end of November, I want to have phased out all meat except fish
• By the end of the school year, I want to be able to claim that I've been a Pescetarian for 7 months
• By next school year, I want to boast that I'm still a Pescetarian
• I want to incorporate more healthy foods - veggies, salads, less fried foods ( D: )
• NO MORE GELATIN IF I CAN HELP IT. OH MY GOD
• -Thankfully I can live my life without Jell-O and Marshmallows
• In five years, I want to have segued into full vegeterianism, or at least intense pescetarianism
• Heightened awareness (LIKE ABOUT GELATIN)
• Actually research pescetarianism and be able to spout off facts like a BAMF
• Know what foods are cool to eat :D  (Identification is key!)

That's my to-do list/goals. Very exciting. 

I wants it. And I will have it, dammit!

This is Day 2. I'm ready to take on the world. 

Day 1.5

This past weekend I made the mental transition from meat-eater to wanting to be a vegetarian.
But because I'm a big weenie, I decided to pretend like vegetarianism was on the horizon, and instead opted for a much smaller, manageable stepping stone.

Pescetarianism. (Or pescatarian. I prefer the 'e' version. Stfu.)

According to Merriam-Webster:

pes·ca·tar·i·an

Definition of PESCATARIAN

: one whose diet includes fish but no meat

Word.

So I'm thinking: Yeah, Roo. You can totes do that! You can be a pescetarian! Totally doable!
Hopefully.


How It All Began:
I was at lunch with a professor one day when he asked:


Prof: Roo, are you a vegetarian? (He is one himself for like...4+ years)


Me: -looks up in alarm from plate- W-what?


Prof: -blinks- Well, I've never seen you eat meat, so I wasn't sure.

Me: -thinks on it- Nope. I just don't eat a lot of meat.


And so the seed was planted. I had no idea that things were going to turn out this way.
I'd considered it, but full blown vegeterianism just didn't appeal to me. It's not so much about wanting to cling to my bacon-eating habits for the rest of my life, but that I couldn't be assed enough to bother with it.

So along comes pescetarianism!
YES!
The solution to all my problems! I can be a half assed vegetarian and abstain from everything except sea creatures! AWESOME.

Except that I didn't really plan ahead.
I didn't research.

Except for like... Pescetarian Life  , which taught me that deer and sheep will eat baby chicks if their environment isn't biologically sustaining them ;A;

So. Wrong.




And I saw a cool picture of a gorilla.

Looked just like that.

So, you might ask (and I might ask myself):

Why pescetarian?

The pescetarian lifestyle is often adopted by people in transition to becoming vegan or by those interested in a healthier, more ethical, and environmentally friendly way of life. 

Yeah. That's Pescetarian Life talking right there. 

Sounds about right. 

Ethics, huh?

Well...hm...-awkward shuffle- 

Ethics. 

I've ultimately decided that I fully want to pursue this. It kind of helps that the sight of meat has randomly started making me a little nauseous (before my pescetarian intiative, even.)

THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF THIS BLOG:

To keep a semi-regular journal chronicling my time and journey as a pescetarian. I'm sure it's going to be tough and rough. I'm going to want that bacon, DAMMIT. 


No more burgers for me. Sadness. 
(My heart is aching. But this is going to be good for me, dammit!)
My updates may not be daily, but I do plan on having them at least weekly. So today is day 1.5 Nearly day 2, actually. 


It started last night when I went on a late night run to Burger King with my roommate. I had been toying with the idea of pescetarianism for about 5 hours when we randomly decided to gallivant off into the next town. 
We went to Burger King, and I had figured: Psssh, BK? No meat? Easy peasy. 


No. 
It was kind of difficult. Props to Prof for being able to do this for so long. 


So that little 5 hour span is important. Though I'm nearly two days into my saga.
Each day will be a victory, and another land mammal / fowl safe from my churning stomach acids. Huzzah!




My name is Roo, I am a newly proclaimed pescetarian, and this is my blog.