Become a vegetarian ... again.

I gave it up a long time ago, tried again, gave it up again.
I had a four-year streak for a while. Watched a show this week about animal cruelty and it really cut me to the quick. I can’t allow myself to hurt and kill the innocent because it’s a habit or because it’s a craving or because I’m just plan apathetic or my life is chaotic. I need to stop.

Well, it’s only been about 3 days, but I’ve been getting sick of meat for awhile. I kept eating it because it was easy, but it’s just not good. Plus with all the junk they’re doing to it these days, it just doesn’t seem wise to keep eating meat. I was holding out because I got into fish recently, but even fish isn’t so good anymore. I don’t know if I’ll be a vegetarian forever, but when I don’t eat meat, it’s so much easier not to eat candy, soda, or other junk. I think my health is going to take a turn for the better now, since it took a turn for the worse when I went back to meat 3 years ago.

I finally just sucked it up, told myself no more dilly dallying around and voila! I was veggie again. It’s been about two weeks with no looking back.

I tried veganism a while back. After a month I had enough. I went back to vegetarianism. I still eat a lot of vegan foods, I LOVE to make vegan meals, milks, desserts and pastries and stuff like that but I missed foods like cheese, and honey so much or when going to a birthday party and not being able to enjoy cake and other foods like pasta salads (mayo, etc,) with everybody else. I’d always feel like an outsider, with people looking at me weirdly.

Also, I’d alway hate when people would ask me “So why are you vegan again?! I always felt guilty. It was like it was a stupid choice that I’d made. Why do people care what I eat? Someone once said to me: You think you’re better than everyone else. That one caught me off guard. How do you answer such a stupid question? But I’ve always said that being vegan was my choice and that other people are free to eat whatever they want. I’m not here to force people to eat like me. You can make your own damn decisions.

Some people would ask me questions out of concern and that was ok. I’d tell them that I did my research online, read books and ate whatever I needed to eat to be able to get my calcium, iron, protein, etc. And then they’d be like, well that’s cool.

Its really hard for me this time. I have been a vegetarian for over half a year before and now I cant do it… i end up eating whatever everyone else is. Im tired of getting made fun of because i dont want to eat meat. I mean everyone around has something to say negative about it. IT DOESNT HELP. I reallllly want to do this. Its kinda important to me.

the sad news is that i have not kept it up. i eat very little meat, but that’s just it. i eat some. so… maybe i should work on that. however, i don’t want to let go of eating meat if it means that i will just substitute that for more starchy bad foods just to fill me up because it’s food. i’d rather eat a whole lot of vegetables and fruits, good fresh ones, than anything else.

I like fish and chorizo too much! Pretty much all other meat is yuck. But I can’t do without fish, so I’m not a real vegetarian.

I started eating meat again about a year ago after I stopped taking care of myself and as a result became so desperate for iron that I eventually found myself in the drive-thru at McDonald’s ordering two cheeseburgers (I know, I know, four years of no meat and I start back on in the worst possible way).

When I first decided to be a vegetarian, that was it, I said to myself one day that I was done with meat and I was done. No slip ups, no cravings too difficult to ignore. It was easy as pie. However this time I’m finding it to be much harder; so I am having to take it slow. Decided to cut out beef first, as I already have a difficult time digesting it, and go from there.

There’s this book out about vegan food and its cardiovascular benefits by Dr Caldwell Esselstyn. When I read it and watched his interview on Google Video, I got hooked. I was a vegetarian twelve years ago and now I want to start again.

eating meat just isnt fair…
how would you like it if chickens and cows and pigs went around giving you steroids and killing you(at a young age) just so they could have you for dinner.
just bc there speices isnt as developed and they cont talk doesnt mean we get the privlage to eat them!
just think next time you eat your hamburger…

it used to have a life.