Week 2, Still No Meat

The past two weeks have been a really hard journey. For the DOT Project at my school, I decided to go vegetarian. I haven’t been able to eat any meat and its been really hard.

At home, all of my family has been eating meat. It’s really hard to look at everyone eating chicken because I feel left out and I start to crave chicken or any other meat my family eats. But then I think to myself if I really want to give up in that moment after how hard I’ve worked on not eating meat.

I’ve definitely learned that being vegetarian is not that hard. At first, one of the reasons I didn’t want to go vegetarian was because I was scared that I would end up craving chicken, beef or any other type of meat but for the first week it wasn’t that hard and I wouldn’t crave anything unless I saw someone eating something that looked good. By the second week, I started to crave meat and it was very challenging to not give up. Something that I’ve done to overcome my cravings of meat is that I’ve reminded myself that I’ve gone vegetarian to help the world and that I won’t die if I don’t eat it for a month. Also, I’ve been adding fruits to my salads, which makes my salads better and less boring to eat. Also, fruits and vegetables are good for your body and are very healthy.

My family has been really supportive and, to this point, no one has put meat in front of my face to make me feel bad and my mom decided to go vegetarian too so that I wouldn't give up.

Another challenge that I have experienced is that even after I eat, I still feel hungry. So I’ve been eating more fruits or healthy snacks to help fill me up. I think that not being filled up has been one of the hardest challenges for me because I love food and I don’t like feeling hungry.

I don’t think that being vegetarian is that hard and that if it’s to save the world everyone should try it. I definitely would encourage others to do it too, especially if it’s a big challenge and something out of the person’s comfort zone. If I’m able to go vegetarian, you can do it too!