Pescetarian - (n.) A person who adheres to the ovo-lacto vegetarian diet with an addendum of being allowed to eat fish. The name is a portmanteau of the Italian word pesce which means fish and vegetarian.
That's the definition off the top of my head. I had once stated that I could never be a vegetarian but if I were to try to get as close as possible I could be a pescetarian. I believe that statement to be true still.
Earlier this month, probably the third or something, I had decided to give up bacon, something I thoroughly love, for the rest of the month of March. Roughly 20 days later I've stayed strong, this includes times I've ordered food with bacon on it and painfully gave it up. Mind you, the only reason I gave up bacon was just to see if I had the willpower to do so.
Today I thought to myself, "I was able to go without bacon so far, what can I do to take this further?" I thought of something I could do, I'm going Pescetarian for the rest of the year. I'm going to delay starting it until after Easter for a few reasons: I don't want these two personal challenges to overlap, I want them to each be their own achievement; Easter is a time of great feasting for me and my family, I just don't want to go without that luscious honey-spiraled ham on Easter; I want to maximize my time with meat before I go without and still make it a sizable achievement; All Catholics are Pescetarian for roughly 1/6 of lent anyways, let's make this a true challenge for me.
So here are the rules that I'm laying forth for myself on this challenge.
-First rule of course is no non-fish meats allowed, even blends such as Jack in the Box Tacos
-I am allowing myself a total of 8 sin exemptions, I can have meat but only 8 days throughout the year
-I must blog what my exemption was used on and why I felt the need to break the rule. If I fail to blog within 24 hours without a reasonable excuse it will count as 2 exemptions
-Speaking of blogging I'm going to say I have to blog my experience throughout it at minimum once a week. If I fail to blog that week the next blog I will have to do a pull up for the total number of times I have failed to blog in one sitting before the next week ends (why not turn this into a weight-loss thing even though it's not for health reasons). For example, if I fail two days in a row and I have yet to fail up to that point, I will have to do 1 pull up the second week and 2 the third.
-That's all the rules I can think of right now, if there are any that you think I should include, throw them to me as a comment and I'll consider it.
