While travelling, my ability to fast as strictly from Bovine and Porcine fat has been limited.  No-fat cheese and yogurt hasn't always been available, and my control over the ingredients that go into dishes, sauces, and drinks hasn't been as good as it would be in my own kitchen.  At first this caused me pain as my lent is flawed.  I felt poigniantly my failure to acheive the standard that I set for myself.  However, this 'benchmarking' had its own failures.  The need to reach perfection, to be thoroughly discipined and succeed are all forms of control.  By offering myself a kind of 'traveller's indulgence' I've been able to move away from measuring myself by scales and checklists to a place where I lose control and am thankful for the food that's offered to me.

I've been training for a marathon and some other races and this lack of saturated fat is killing me.  In order to keep up with my body's needs I'll have to supplement with nuts or something.  Perhaps that will be a healthy change...