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My Year Without Meat

In three days, it will be one whole year since I've eaten meat.  I did it, you guys!  I set a nearly unreasonable goal for myself, and I achieved it!  I'm quite proud of myself.  And you know what?  It wasn't THAT bad.  Sometimes it was hard, but most of the time it was a no brainer.  It's definitely more of a psychological exercise than a physical one.  If I got my mind to believe that I didn't need meat, my body would follow through. The hardest part was eating outside of my home.  Eating and cooking at home as a pescetarian was easy.  When I'm in control of my own food, leaving out meat was not a big deal at all.  Going out, and especially going out to friend's houses was the hard part.  I never wanted to be THAT friend.  You know, that friend who's like, "Thank you for cooking this delicious looking BBQ, but would you mind throwing these tofu burgers on the grill?"  I feel very uncomfortable asking people to mak...