Goodbye my love
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Today I ate the last piece of meat I will get for the next month. I went to Threadgill’s alone and truly enjoyed a chicken fried chicken plate, because in an hour and a half I will begin life as a hardcore vegetarian. I swear if I eat another bite of food I’ll explode. That was what I was going for, really. I drank so much diet coke my waitress started bringing me water out of moral obligation.
I know it doesn’t make a lot of sense initially, because everyone knows how I loves the meats, but I read this article a while ago and thought for a long time about changes I might make to my diet. After thinking about it and taking some moral inventory, I have come to accept the challenge of living without the following things:
Meat
Honey
Dairy
Poultry/eggs
Fish
and
Soda.
That last one’s gonna kill me.
I think this will be a good sacrifice. My lovely WOF2, Haley, will be doing it with me, so I won’t be alone, and I’m going grocery shopping tomorrow. I’ll swing by Randall’s to get something to eat at work for lunch and I can get an Odwalla superfood at ACC for breakfast. No big. I’ll buy food tomorrow. No self-sabotaging!
I gave up soda for lent my junior year of high school and wanted to die. I know I’m going to go through caffeine withdrawal, and it’s going to suck, and I BEG you to please be patient with me. I don’t meant to snap at you, it’s just that it is going to hurt. A lot. Physically. But it ought to go away and I love you, so just let me sit in the corner with my headache and my carrot sticks. I’ll be okay.
Godspeed, me. Wish me luck. I’m excited and scared I’ll fail. But if I fall off the wagon three times I have to eat a whole head of cabbage, and I think that’s enough deterrent for anyone. I can do this. I can do this. I can.
