Going vegan and how I already failed
A sequel
I’m actually going to sob. I just finished writing this story and it was all well and good when I lost all my progress and ended up being stuck with another blank page. I guess I’ll have to start from scratch…
Alright let’s do this one last time. My name’s Peter Parker. I was bitten by a radioactive spider and — wait, wrong script.
So I went vegan — or at least I tried. To be honest, I lied in my first post when I reported that I had lasted a week of veganism but in reality I barely lasted a day. After the first week, I really (edit: mostly) didn’t eat meat but I did have a lot of animal products. Eventually, I got tired of tracking my milk consumption and I decided to finally ask Mr. Riggen to just switch my project to being vegetarian. As it turns out, that’s one of the best decisions I’ve made this month. It’s so easy to just not eat meat, especially when you can finally have breakfast again because cereal with cow’s milk is fair game again — almond milk just didn’t cut it for me.
I went to school today feeling really sick. I went to the nurse and I ended up missing my 3rd block math class. While the nurse was unable to diagnose my illness, it turns out that I didn’t have any protein, which made me have sharp pains in my stomach and I felt like vomiting. Now, this wasn’t medically diagnosed but a friend of mine suggested my sickness was due to lack of protein and once I had a protein bar I felt a lot better. As a result of this experience, I have determined that I can’t go vegetarian or be on any diet for a long time. It turns out that my normal cravings are really telling me, “Hey Tomas, if you don’t eat protein soon you’re gonna feel like your intestines burst.” Well at least I only have until next Sunday and then I’m off the hook and can eat whatever meat I want.
I’m also sad to say that I have still eaten meat even though my project says not to. I blame Mexican food. I can’t go a week without it. It’s so good but I have found it tastes best when it has chicken or pork so I go all in and just order my meat. It’s a pain logging all of it into my Google sheet because it’s so much easier to just have rows of 0’s.
All in all, I’ve had a pretty negative experience with being vegetarian and even though I like the opportunity of doing one thing to help the environment, in practice I would rather just eat a Big Mac and die at the age of 36.
