My six-week experiment with Pescatarianism as a dietary lifestyle ended on Friday. I can report that I was 100% faithful to the plan for the entire period, that I didn’t feel deprived in any sense of the word, but that I did find the diet reduced my energy level noticeably and caused some digestive problems which have persisted.
I am sure there are ways to mitigate those effects. But part of my reason for choosing to follow this diet was to avoid having to spend so much time worrying about and analyzing various eating options at every turn. if I couldn’t make the lifestyle essentially automatic and have it work for me, it was clearly not for me. I tend not to pay a lot of attention to the daily minutiae of living.
After further research and thinking, I’ve decided that one source of my problems has been lack of protein intake. I have not had seafood every day (too expensive), relying instead on other vegetarian sources of protein, which I have apparently not eaten in sufficient quantities (or perhaps combinations) to achieve my desired result.
I spent some time talking with various friends and acquaintances about my findings, read quite a large number of online resources, and decided to make a modest revision to my pescatarian regime. One day each week, I will allow myself to eat meat of some sort in an effort to boost protein intake without having to spend a lot of time and effort trying to figure out how to do that.
When I do eat meat, I am going to make sure it is meat I really enjoy.
I’m going to try this for another six weeks, monitoring the results, and then reassess.
