The Fatslayer Chronicles

Today's Fatslaying Workout Nothing

Today's Weight 191.5 lbs

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This healthy eating lark can work out really expensive - our food bill has practically doubled since we started cutting out the crap and eating lots of fresh fruit and veggies. Today I bought a pound of fresh cod and by my quick reckoning it worked out more expensive per ounce than gold - it'd better be worth it!

I like fish but I have an uncomfortable battle with my conscience every time I buy it. Most meat is farmed from sustainable stocks, and since I don't like meat very much I tend to buy a little of it and go for quality not quantity. It salves my conscience if I'm eating my burgers made with organically reared, humanely slaughtered beef - I can con myself that Daisy the Cow had a good life and a painless death.

It's not so easy to stifle my conscience when I buy fish, though. I feel that every time I eat fish I'm complicit in some sort of rape of the ocean - fish stocks in the North Sea are in dire straits, and it's not as if you can set up a cod or tuna farm and have done with it. I feel as if I'm contributing to the destruction of an entire eco-system!

But since I eat meat maybe one day a month, I'm allergic to soya and I don't like cheese, eggs or dairy produce, I struggle for good quality protein sources. I'd LIKE to give up fish, but woman (or at least THIS woman) cannot live by nuts and pulses alone.

Any suggestions for alternative protein sources, anyone, so that I can start looking my goldfish (Tango) in the eye again? I feel like a mass-murderer every time I approach his bowl to shake in a bit of fish food!