Chicken Run (from me)
Jul. 16th, 2021 07:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dotintheskyI ate some chicken yesterday from my mother’s takeaway. A piece of chicken a la parmegiana. The last time I’d eaten chicken was back in November 2016, just before I went vegetarian.
I was never, though, truly vegetarian. I ate fish. I love fish. But I wasn’t eating fish all day. And instead of finding suitable sources of protein to replace it, I was more and more relying on bread.
Since I returned to Brasil, in August 2019, I’ve lost 10 pounds. This was due to a combination of things: grief, a change in daily routine (I became a gardener) and being on an old lady’s diet for the first six months (my mom’s). Most of these pounds were muscle (while in London, I’d built myself up to do 10 pull ups in a row; now I can only do about 5/6). I want my muscles back, I want to shed the bread and butter, but I’m still struggling to build up a good high vegetable protein diet.
So yesterday I took a bite of that chicken. And I thought to myself: well, I wasn’t really a vegetarian anyway. And this chicken is proper free range and not like one of those European ones that goes around inside a little cage, underneath a barn’s dome. And maybe I can have chicken only once in a while, when I need the protein, but still keep it as Plan B.
I’ve also been making whey protein vitamin shakes at night, mixing in peanut butter, melons, papayas, bananas and milk. It helps me get through the night without waking up with a growling stomach.
I was never, though, truly vegetarian. I ate fish. I love fish. But I wasn’t eating fish all day. And instead of finding suitable sources of protein to replace it, I was more and more relying on bread.
Since I returned to Brasil, in August 2019, I’ve lost 10 pounds. This was due to a combination of things: grief, a change in daily routine (I became a gardener) and being on an old lady’s diet for the first six months (my mom’s). Most of these pounds were muscle (while in London, I’d built myself up to do 10 pull ups in a row; now I can only do about 5/6). I want my muscles back, I want to shed the bread and butter, but I’m still struggling to build up a good high vegetable protein diet.
So yesterday I took a bite of that chicken. And I thought to myself: well, I wasn’t really a vegetarian anyway. And this chicken is proper free range and not like one of those European ones that goes around inside a little cage, underneath a barn’s dome. And maybe I can have chicken only once in a while, when I need the protein, but still keep it as Plan B.
I’ve also been making whey protein vitamin shakes at night, mixing in peanut butter, melons, papayas, bananas and milk. It helps me get through the night without waking up with a growling stomach.
