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As of last night, around 5pm I\'ve cut out meat from my diet. I\'ve been planning this since around last night at 4:59pm or so. It all started yesterday morning when Cassie and I were out to breakfast. She convinced me to try a piece of egg, a food item I haven\'t had for about 15 years. It\'s a slight phobia of cracking open the unfertilized birthplace of an animal. I\'m well aware egg is in pretty much everything, and that doesn\'t bother me. I just don\'t want to look at it. It was at dinner where I was looking at sauce options at spaghetti works and Cassie recommended I try the one without meat and I figured\... why not. Not only will I eat this without meat, I\'m going to eat everything else without meat too. Instead I
can attempt to put things into my diet that I wouldn\'t normally eat. So I made my order, and the waitress asked \"Would you like a meatball with that?\" Bitch. So it began, a spur of the moment decision impacting things I do every day.
I don\'t plan on doing this forever, but I see it as an experiment. Can I start eating things I wouldn\'t normally eat because I\'ve cut out the standards? Will I feel better? Will I lose weight?
Lunchtime comes today and I have to make a decision on what I\'m to eat. So I go to a local sandwich place by the office and for the first time in my life utter the words \"veggie sub\". I even looked around to make sure nobody could hear me first.
He takes out some bread and layers with tomatoes. I don\'t like tomatoes. He looks at me and says \"what else do you want on it?\" I look around and complete the sandwich with american cheese, onions, lettuce, oil and vinegar and finally pickles. I brought it back to my desk and took a bite without even looking at it first. First impression\... i really like those pickles.
After work today i\'m going to whole foods and see what I can try and hack together as far as grocery shopping. I see veggie pizzas, noodles, pasta and bags of salad in my future. Things I still don\'t have to figure out how to cook\... but just things I already like that won\'t have meat in it. I\'m not trying to eat healthy\... i\'m just removing my default and still going to eat like crap.
I recalled the story to Cassie last night on how I started drinking only diet pop. I stopped drinking regular pop for a whole year first and only drank water. Once you lose your comparison then settling for something not as good is easy. So I don\'t think you\'ll see me eating tofu anytime soon, but I\'ll stick to things that I\'m already familiar with and in time i\'ll try eating things i\'m not. By that time I won\'t know any better?
Being this is an experiment I don\'t see it lasting more than a couple months unless my life dramatically changes for the better because of it. I have no idea with slaughtering animals and then ripping the flesh off their tasty bones so i\'m sure i\'ll be eating meat soon enough. Besides Christmas is coming.. so that\'s a given. 