So We Meat Again

So since Monday before last, two of my friends and I had been in a competition to see who could go vegetarian (meatless if you will) for as long as possible. The first week we were pescitarian (only allowed to eat seafood), then this week we were strict vegetarian.

If the contest had lasted, next week we would have been vegan and the following week we would have had to follow a raw vegetable diet. We didn't really think we would ever last that long, so we did not even make rules for after the first month, but I had kind of hoped that we would have just stuck to a all hot dog diet following the month of no meat.

Today, luckily, was the last day of the competition and I won! My one last competitor was afraid he was loosing weight, and there was no way we could have made it though a week of being vegan. We love cheese.

I've realized that if you are going to make a major change to your diet, you have to plan it out. Our idea of just removing meat from our diets and not replacing it at all was probably not the best. I also realized that the hard part about not eating meat is not that you miss the meat, but that it is a hassle to get food that is vegetarian friendly that's more than grains and cheese (especially as a college student). The celebratory Chick-Fil-A was a relief more because it was so convenient than to catch up on my meat intake (I think I had a week's worth for dinner). I'm defiantly not going vegetarian any time soon.

In the words of my Father, I do not know why we "can't have a drinking contest like everyone else."