Vegetarian Wednesday & Meditation Class

Vegetarian Wednesdays are back again!

Not that they ever left but I found it difficult to be vegetarian every Wednesday because its hard sometimes during a business lunch or when I'm eating with a group in a place which does have vegetarian dishes or have crappy ones. In which case, I'll be vegetarian on another occasion or on another day.

But now that I'm not working, I'm going to be vegetarian on Wednesdays as well as any other meal or day I can.

And as an added reason, Fruitcake and I have started meditation classes. It lasts for an hour on Wednesday evenings. It's Meditation for Stress Management. They guy who leads the class, Chi Choong, is not only a psychologist but also a clairvoyant. I never thought that that combination would work. Science is science. And the new age spiritual world is ... well, a completely different work, isn't it?

But now that we got to know him and tried out a few classes, it makes perfect sense. We start the class with an aura reading, go through the theories of the meditation we're about to do, do the meditation, and discuss about it afterwards while looking up and around to see if our spirit guides made an appearance.

So Fruitcake and I now go to class together but with slightly different agendas. She goes to meditate to try and understand and deal with her depression. While I go to develop my psychic abilities. I always felt that i could 'feel' things and I'm not finally ready to take it to the next level. It's been a little scary so far, but it's also been interesting. There are many branches of psychicism but the ones I'm most interested in is clairvoyance and aura reading. I'll update again once I've had some success in 'seeing' things. :)

Vegetarian Wednesdays - Week 2

Today marks my second week of Vegetarian Wednesdays. And I must say that it’s really not that bad. To turn fully vegetarian will be too drastic and my body will be in shock. I may even kill a pig with my bare hands to get to my bacon! But being a vegetarian is a long term plan and I’m doing pretty well. So far on Vegetarian Wednesdays I still eat seafood with the other vegetables / grains / roots / mushrooms. Eventually I’ll cut out all meat on Vegetarian Wednesdays. And then I’ll add on another vegetarian day and then another day and maybe I’ll be full vegetarian in 10 years time!

Today for lunch Sin Cyn and I went to Genki Sushi and we ordered a dish neither of us had before. It was a bowl of vinegared rice, pickles, crab stick, egg, smoked salmon & salmon in some kinda pasty salmon cream thing. For Genki Sushi, it was extremely yummy and we’re definitely going back there for more. RM13.80 a bowl only. And it comes with miso soup too though that’s nothing to shout about. But still very yummy.

I’ve told my Future MIL about very Vegetarian Wednesday and she’s been very encouraging. She’s even asked me to try to get Paul to do it but I think that’ll take more than 10 years. She’s cooking dinner tonight. In fact, she’s cooking right now so I’m going to leave the office now and head home. See ya!

Bubbles the Vegetarian Wannabe.

I ate a bowl of salad last night for dinner. A BIG bowl. And I finished every leaf. The tuna and peach dressing helped it all go down.

And I plan to do it more often. So uncharacteristic of someone who doesn’t like to eat vegetables, huh?

People usually become vegetarian for 3 reasons:

1. For religious reasons
2. For health reasons
3. Because they love animals

I’m doing it for Reason Number 3. As much as I love my bacon and siew yoke, I do feel bad for the piggy who died cos I want to eat him. I’ve always felt this way but he tastes so good!

And the secondary reason why I’m doing this is for Reason Number 2. My doctor told me to cut out bacon and eat healthily right?

So now I have 2 reasons, hopefully strong enough to make me turn part vegetarian.

Okay there’s no such thing as part vegetarian but it’s a start. Vegetables are just not yummy. Nor filling!

2 hours after the large bowl of salad, I was hungry. So I ate corn flakes and low fat milk (yeah I’ve switched (or trying) to low fat milk too. It tastes yuck!).

I was then fairly full but extremely unfulfilled.

Maybe it just takes a while for the body to make the switch and crave for less meat. I’m going to try introducing Vegetarian Wednesdays into my life. One day per week of no meat can’t be that bad. Oh, animal by products and seafood will be allowed though. Can’t expect me to make such a strict and drastic switch.

Right now I’m thinking: What’s the point of being healthy but feel unsatisfied in life?

But for the last 31 years of my life, I’ve been eating extremely unhealthily. I hardly eat vegetables and can eat 500g of fried crispy bacon per seating. And a large bowl of fried lard when I eat Hokkien mee is a must.

Maybe it is time to take a more moderate stance in my diet now so that I don’t have to completely cut bacon from my diet in the future.

I love bacon. But poor pig.

Yes it’s a tough internal struggle. I’m confused. My body’s confused.

It’s not Wednesday. I’m going for lunch. And eat some meat.