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.