Pescatarianism: Week 3

First, I'd like to mention I know this weeks picture has nothing to do pescatarianism but when I googled "fish eating" this is one of the first images that popped up and I found it funny.

Okay, now that that has been cleared up let's move on. So week number three has gone on without any botches. I did not eat one single meat other than fish (hooray!). This being said I also did not get the major headaches I'd had the previous week so I'm beginning to believe that to be the case.

The week itself went fine, though I do have to mention we went up to New York City for the weekend and that's where I hit a few snags. It wasn't really the fact that I couldn't find food. Lord knows NYC probably has the most vegetarian options of any other place in the United States. It was the fact that I couldn't find food with protein in it. I ate mostly carbs and fats, plenty of vegetables, but not enough protein. This left me feeling weak and sickly by the time I got home on Sunday (which I then ate a HUGE bean burrito with tons of protein in it...that wasn't such a good idea either).

My biggest motivation for not eating meat as a protein was the awful headaches I had the previous week. If I hadn't had such a problem, I think I would have just eaten the meat and been done with it but instead I gorged on bagel's with cream cheese and vegetable pizza. My stomach felt a little empty sometimes and others it felt like I had a brick that just wouldn't digest. I'm not sure if I'm just a big baby or if this diet change is really affecting me that much. I'm kind of inclined to believe it is, since I've never changed my diet like and at the age of 25, it's taking some time to adjust.

On a brighter note, even with my weekend diet I did feel healthier. Though I slept on an ikea mattress on the floor with throw pillows I slept soundly and did not tire while walking around the big city. This compares to a few months ago while I was there which I was sluggish and exhausted most my time (and I slept on a bed that time too). So this week was a week to notice positive (and negative) health changes.