Save a plan, eat a vegan
Somehow, I have managed to be a vegetarian during all the last week.
It all started as a promise/bet/challenge with the staff at Lagnaa. Due to the incoming Earth hour, they were trying to get the people involved with different actions that would make a change in Earth conservation. So, I accepted to play the game, and the “temporary vegetarianism” deal started.
After the meat consumer that I am, I realized fast that I don’t really know what’s allowed and what’s not in order to be “vegetarian”. Then, checking its page in Wikipedia, I found out that there is different concepts involved and types depending if you eat eggs, dairy products, fish or maybe just nothing but -WTF- raw beans and fruits??
So, after some moments of consideration, I decided to pick the most common one: I would allow myself to eat any kind of vegetables, fungus stuff, eggs and dairy products. I’m nothing without my morning coffee.
So how was the experience? how has it gone?… I manage to finish the week without cheating! But with mixed results:
- When eating outside, the first problem is that it makes difficult to find something to eat! A lot of food served in Singapore include even small quantities of either meat, fish or seafood, but most of the time all the previous three. It’s a pity to be limited to half page in a menu with 4 or 5 pages full.
- Meals are boring and frustrating.
- When eating at home… nah, I don’t eat at home in Singapore. It’s cheaper to do it outside.
- Generally, I feel like having more energy and being less sleepy after lunch than before. This is a nice outcome, but can be due to eating less quantity of food per meal, that I have also tried.
- Better quality shit time
- I’m still concerned after all the nutrition concerns listed in the Wikipedia.
Will I keep doing it? Definitely no: it’s boring, and Asia is a big playground of tastes that I don’t want to miss. But I want that extra energy so I will pay more attention to the veggies from now on.
Update: after thinking on this, I have decided to do some easy, but permanent dietary changes: I will eat meat or seafood based meals, only on weekends.
Up until then, travel and the idea of going far away had just being a dream, and dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people -preferably our parents, our spouses or our children- for our failure to realize our dreams.
