It has been awhile since my last blog. Last quarter did a hostile takeover of my entire life. Spending quality time with my kids, husband {mind you, not enough}, and doing homework was at the top of my list 24/7 (seriously). Honestly, it was the worst decision that I’ve ever made; that I would continue to make over and over again. Sometimes the real you can be revealed when you are under pressure and although I did get cranky once in a while, I still felt like I overcame the stressful 10 weeks as an improved individual. Through it all, I’m still a 4.0 student who attends class 100% of the time. Yippee, small celebration for me {insert golf clap here}.
Now moving on to the important stuff: I’m still a veggie eater. First, so I won’t feel guilty, I did have a piece of halibut about 4 weeks ago. Justin and I were blessed to go out on a date over Labor Day while my Mom was visiting from Colorado. We had an old gift certificate to a steakhouse in SLC, that needed to be used. My only option was fish or a piece of lettuce, so I chose fish. Even the fish gave me a small stomach ache the next day. Since that {stupid} day in September, no other animal has been hurt during the day to day life of me! It’s been 3 months and 6 days, since I started on my journey of not eating animals {mainly all the junk people put in animals}.
Short story; one day I was tearing up a piece of bacon for my oldest daughter and accidently licked my fingers, talk about instant gagging. The taste stayed in my mouth for about an hour. Honestly, I’m someone that use to love Bacon, but now just the smell, nauseates me. Interesting, don’t you think? It’s amazing what are bodies don’t need once we take the time to start listening to it.
In the wonderful, little piece of heaven book called, Skinny Bitch, she gives advice to her readers to be deliberate about eating meat again and choose a day and specific meat source to consume. The author advises new Vegans/Vegetarians to do this, so they can observe how their body reacts to the meat after detoxing from it. Originally, I shared with my husband that I was going to eat Turkey on Thanksgiving as my deliberate choice. Since we are going to be visiting family in Southern California over the holidays, I’ve decided against that. I’m not sure when or if, I’m going to consume meat again, in order to scientifically observe my body. Currently, I’m just enjoying the meat free, veggie loving life.
