Oh Meat, Oh My! My Second Week
My second week went really well! No slip-ups whatsoever. I did a lot of meal prepping last week since my first week didn't go so well. If you're someone who can eat the same thing over and over again, it's best to make an abundance of something and then just put it in several different food storage containers.
The only challenge I really faced was how to get enough protein in my diet daily. Since I used to rely heavily on chicken and beef for this, I have had to get creative with my lunch and dinnertime recipes. On top of this, I'm a really picky eater so it's hard to find foods that I like and that also give me what I'm looking for. I've been eating not only a lot of fish but tofu too, along with 1-3 protein shakes a day. I like to use muscle milk protein powder since it gives you a whopping 25g of protein every serving, is low in fat/carbs and doesn't taste like chalk!
This week I had been thinking a lot about my environmental impact, and how my new diet and old diet compared in terms of saving waste. I found a calculator online that tells you how you measure up with a normal American diet and the results were surprising!
(Source: Vegaroo)
On a small scale, maybe this doesn't seem like much. But there are millions of pescatarians all over the world, so in the grand scheme of things, this is major! Not to mention that this is just a pescatarians daily impact. Weekly numbers jump from 200 to 1,400, from 4500 to 31,500, from 15 to 105, from 125 to 875 and from 0.5 to 3.5. Can you imagine what this would look like in a month? A year? Based on one person, that impact is pretty darn big! If people at school, or in my city, even in the state gave up all meats excluding seafood our carbon footprint would be greatly reduced, and we would be saving a ton of water and forests.
These results were somewhat surprising. For some reason, I thought the impact would be greater, but at the end of the day, I am only one person out of the billions on Earth. These results also are just an estimate, some meat-eating Americans eat tons of meat and some barely at all. This website also doesn't tell me how much waste is produced in a normal American diet which was kind of frustrating, but perhaps I could find that information elsewhere.
All in all, I still firmly stand by the thought that one person's impact is important regardless of statistics and results. Imagine: if we all thought what we did had an impact on the entire world, what would the world look like today?
The only challenge I really faced was how to get enough protein in my diet daily. Since I used to rely heavily on chicken and beef for this, I have had to get creative with my lunch and dinnertime recipes. On top of this, I'm a really picky eater so it's hard to find foods that I like and that also give me what I'm looking for. I've been eating not only a lot of fish but tofu too, along with 1-3 protein shakes a day. I like to use muscle milk protein powder since it gives you a whopping 25g of protein every serving, is low in fat/carbs and doesn't taste like chalk!
This week I had been thinking a lot about my environmental impact, and how my new diet and old diet compared in terms of saving waste. I found a calculator online that tells you how you measure up with a normal American diet and the results were surprising!
(Source: Vegaroo)
On a small scale, maybe this doesn't seem like much. But there are millions of pescatarians all over the world, so in the grand scheme of things, this is major! Not to mention that this is just a pescatarians daily impact. Weekly numbers jump from 200 to 1,400, from 4500 to 31,500, from 15 to 105, from 125 to 875 and from 0.5 to 3.5. Can you imagine what this would look like in a month? A year? Based on one person, that impact is pretty darn big! If people at school, or in my city, even in the state gave up all meats excluding seafood our carbon footprint would be greatly reduced, and we would be saving a ton of water and forests.
These results were somewhat surprising. For some reason, I thought the impact would be greater, but at the end of the day, I am only one person out of the billions on Earth. These results also are just an estimate, some meat-eating Americans eat tons of meat and some barely at all. This website also doesn't tell me how much waste is produced in a normal American diet which was kind of frustrating, but perhaps I could find that information elsewhere.
All in all, I still firmly stand by the thought that one person's impact is important regardless of statistics and results. Imagine: if we all thought what we did had an impact on the entire world, what would the world look like today?
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