Six more days to go!

SIX more days before I will allow myself to eat meat again, if I want to. Which I'm not sure I will. I've gotten so used to not having meat that it doesn't bother me much anymore, what bothers me is the inconvenience of being vegetarian. I think that's the biggest challenge of all, something I have overcome and the one thing that I will remember the most from this experience.
When you tell people you are a vegetarian, you are stamping your forehead with FREAK, HEALTH NUT, HIPPIE, etc. It's quite discouraging and sometimes even pisses me off when people get extremely skeptical and go off on how I am skinny enough or how meat is delicious and they could never do it. I feel like I'm constantly defending myself and I get tired of it.
And I also feel bad when people go out of their way to accommodate my dietary preferences. Like yesterday, after a few drinks, some friends and I were hungry but we debated for the longest time over where to eat since they wanted to go somewhere that had things I could eat. And my only objection was LocoBoyz.
Or later on yesterday, when I was helping my girlfriend make spring rolls and she asked me tentatively if I could still eat the shrimp if it touched the beef flanks that we were preparing next to it.
There is still much to learn about living life as a vegetarian...not only on the different meals I consume, but also the reputation that comes with it.

Vegetarianism

For those of you who are unaware, I have recently decided to 'pledge to go veg'. That means that I am going to stop eating meat for 30 days.
There are many different motives for becoming vegetarian (which I DO eventually want to accomplish, I'm just testing the waters right now). Mine is mostly for health reasons. I will go into detail later, if you really want to know. But mainly, there are so many hormones, toxins, dieases, etc. in meat that hinder your health. And make you fat. I want to detox my body to see what improvements it will bring to my body. Being a Nutrition major, I see this as the next big step in an effort to live better and make smarter food choices.
It has been 8 days so far, and quite an adventure. I have tired so many foods (mostly meat alternatives) that I would never have thought to consider before.
So I'm going to dedicate this blog mostly to my journey of becoming vegetarian.
It's gonna be gooooooooooooooood. ;-D