Tuna...
...tastes a little strange when you've been on a vegetarian diet for 2.5 weeks. I'm rather curious now what my taste buds' reaction to chicken/pork/beef will be when the fast completes on Sunday, 11 April. Then again, since the department will be at Equinox, Swissotel The Stamford tomorrow with the big boss from the US, I think I'll find out earlier than expected. With the company paying such a high price per head for this "entertainment and team bonding" exercise, I don't think I'll make a very good impression if I sit there nibbling on a few leaves.
I was at Subway, IMM today with the CF girls, since all my usual kakis were off running errands this time round. Their veggie patty seriously sucks crap, so I went for the next possible option-- tuna. Not bad, though it feels a little odd on the tummy. At least it happened today, in preparation for tomorrow... If I just jumped into it tomorrow I doubt my system would be able to take it. As it is I'm still going to be taking tiny amounts of non-vegetables.
That said, I find that as the days go by, the less tempted I am by non-vegetables. I'm now perfectly fine with watching people eat, or staring at photographs, or even browsing the meat sections in the supermarket without feeling an urge to break the fast. I don't really feel like I'm missing out on that much, and the thought of doing this on a semi-permanent basis, eating meat only as and when we feel like it (maybe once or twice a week?), doesn't seem impossible or even unpleasant.
The best part is that I am losing fat. A few colleagues have mentioned that my face/jawline appears sharper, and I don't need to tug on my old red shorts in order to button them up anymore (I've been wearing them since I was 17, and they got rather tight from August 2009 till a couple of weeks ago). I am so happy! My complexion is also improving-- it recovers almost overnight whenever I have a minor breakout of sorts, and these now occur only around the peak of the menstrual cycle or when don't take enough care just after having a facial.
I'm now wondering whether I will ever bother to buy an actual tuna steak and attempt to cook it. Tuna is expensive when fresh/frozen, but Helen Rennie of Beyond Salmon has written such interesting stuff on tuna that I feel an itch to experiment. Don't start on how tuna is overfished and bordering on endangered-- the entire world and every single species on this planet as we know it isn't going to be here in another 16 to 60 years. I think it's closer to 20 to 30 years, actually. So refusing to try good stuff in the name of conservation while profit-driven companies and pleasure-seeking gourmets are stuffing their coffers and faces is just... silly.
Or maybe I'm somewhat apathetic. I don't know.
I was at Subway, IMM today with the CF girls, since all my usual kakis were off running errands this time round. Their veggie patty seriously sucks crap, so I went for the next possible option-- tuna. Not bad, though it feels a little odd on the tummy. At least it happened today, in preparation for tomorrow... If I just jumped into it tomorrow I doubt my system would be able to take it. As it is I'm still going to be taking tiny amounts of non-vegetables.
That said, I find that as the days go by, the less tempted I am by non-vegetables. I'm now perfectly fine with watching people eat, or staring at photographs, or even browsing the meat sections in the supermarket without feeling an urge to break the fast. I don't really feel like I'm missing out on that much, and the thought of doing this on a semi-permanent basis, eating meat only as and when we feel like it (maybe once or twice a week?), doesn't seem impossible or even unpleasant.
The best part is that I am losing fat. A few colleagues have mentioned that my face/jawline appears sharper, and I don't need to tug on my old red shorts in order to button them up anymore (I've been wearing them since I was 17, and they got rather tight from August 2009 till a couple of weeks ago). I am so happy! My complexion is also improving-- it recovers almost overnight whenever I have a minor breakout of sorts, and these now occur only around the peak of the menstrual cycle or when don't take enough care just after having a facial.
I'm now wondering whether I will ever bother to buy an actual tuna steak and attempt to cook it. Tuna is expensive when fresh/frozen, but Helen Rennie of Beyond Salmon has written such interesting stuff on tuna that I feel an itch to experiment. Don't start on how tuna is overfished and bordering on endangered-- the entire world and every single species on this planet as we know it isn't going to be here in another 16 to 60 years. I think it's closer to 20 to 30 years, actually. So refusing to try good stuff in the name of conservation while profit-driven companies and pleasure-seeking gourmets are stuffing their coffers and faces is just... silly.
Or maybe I'm somewhat apathetic. I don't know.