Wednesday, 09 March 2011
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Forty Days Without Meat
I'm not really religious or anything. I was raised Catholic, but I've kind of been slacking on that ever since I was confirmed at 15 (my parents finally gave up trying to force me to go to church in high school).
But I've been wanting to give up meat for awhile, yet I've just never really, you know, done it. This past Sunday, this finally changed. I decided that starting today, I'm giving up beef and chicken for Lent. 40 days and 40 nights without meat for me.
Now, I'm still going to eat fish and seafood, so I guess I'll be a pescetarian. And I'm not going to be strict about broths or gelatin. I'm just simply not eating beef or chicken.
So it was only natural that I went to Buffalo Wild Wings last night and indulged in some boneless wings. They were pretty good, but I'm not sure if I'll miss meat too much. I usually only eat it once a day, if at all. I'll see how I feel in a week, but no matter what, I'm sticking to this!
I'm actually pretty excited about it. So is my vegetarian sister, who hopes that I permanently "become a veggie" after this. We'll see.
Does anyone have any tips for me? Are you giving up any foods for Lent?
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I don't do lent
I'm Baptist; we don't do Lent. Take a guess as to which food I won't be giving up.
I'm a vegetarian and have been for the past 14 months but i'm giving up bi-products for lent so i will be a full vegan :D I really want to become permanatly vegan after this but most of my family isnt very supportive so i'm using lent as my excuse (:
My only tip would be getting some bocca burgers (: (a brand of meatless burgers) you can find them at most grocery stores and they come in tons of different flavors<3
i'm doing the exact same thing - no meat except fish during lent. good luck!
A while back I went a month without meat (well ok, I had a couple bites =P), but now I'm a flexitarian and eat maybe an ounce of meat a week.
Just make sure if you decide to start eating meat again you start small and increase portions slowly! Once I ate a taco and it made me really sick; my body can now only handle a few bites in a sitting.
I've given up meat and I don't really miss it all that much. I feel much healthier not eating it. There are tons of great vegetarian recipes out there.
DO NOT go full vegan after you try it. Protein deficiency will weaken your body.
@FatWorlD_WONDER@xanga - hahaha what a big scary MYTH
There is plenty of protein to be consumed in other VEGAN foods. There are tons of vegan body builders who have no problem getting protein. Animal products aren't the only foods in the world that have protein.
@FatWorlD_WONDER@xanga - No, protein deficiency won't kill you or do much to your body if you bother eating right. 1/2 cup of lentils or black beans have over 20g of protein in them each. There's rice protein isolate you can add to your smoothies... not to mention everything has protein in it in small amount and what we consider "normal,' to eat in amounts of proteiny foods like meat and chicken, eggs, etc. make for an overproteinated diet. I know that's not a word, but you get what I am trying to say.
I feel the reason a lot of people fail on a vegan diet is a) they don't bother to get their protein and b) calories! It's hard to get enough of those.
Lent is the season where everyone pretends they're catholic whereas the rest of the year all they do is talk shit. It's extremely annoying.
@Kyuketsuki_no_Megami@xanga - This.
But whatever gets people to stop eating meat, I guess.
Try 6 years ;D
@Kyuketsuki_no_Megami@xanga - Not true. I'd say Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, Easter Vigil/Sunday (okay, that sounds like Lent, but I mean on those specific days... people don't seem to take it seriously within the 40 days) & maybe Christmas is that time. And for the people who are "practicing" Catholics, that time would be every Sunday. *shrugs* It's annoying, but yeah :)
@Xx_SCRiBBLY@xanga - Ash wednesday, good friday, and easter are ALL apart of the lenten season. So basically what you're saying is people only care about religion during lent and christmas? I disagree- this isn't about religion but about different faiths. The protestants schism'd from the catholic church because they didn't like all the bells and whistles of things like lent and so forth, so you don't think it's ironic that, for most of the year while they trash catholics, they decide to suddenly take up lent because they feel like it even though the whole point of being protestant is to NOT participate in stuff like that because it isn't "plain" enough to meet their definition of God? I think it's incredibly ironic, and irritating, not to mention hilariously hypocritical. Thus my comment.
i've been a pescetarian since april or something and it's really not that hard. are you going to be eating pork? maybe if you start getting tired of fish you could have some bacon to switch it up a bit =P
I am trying something similar! Thanks for giving me this little push. (I'm not religious either but I like the idea of giving up something that I overindulge in.)
Good Luck!! ^-^v
I don't eat red meats every Friday for 8 years or so now so I don't do lent.
@FatWorlD_WONDER@xanga - Intelligence fail.
@Kyuketsuki_no_Megami@xanga - wow, you really hate protestants don't you? that's some deep seated anger right there - you might wanna look at that. just a suggestion. it seems like you feel like protestants "talk shit" about catholics - probably because you feel like they stereotype all catholics. but isn't that exactly the same thing you're doing here?
for what it's worth, i have begun RCIA classes and am very excited about becoming catholic soon. this is the first time i've participated in giving up something for lent. your theory is really interesting because i literally don't know ANY protestants who bash catholics or catholicism, yet some of them choose to give up something for lent. if anything, it's a tradition a lot of protestants admire. why are you so concerned with the way certain people of other sects of christianity choose to connect with god and repent during lent?
Just make sure you get your protein in!
ive actually never done lent before ><
Good luck, even though I'm not completely religious as my dads side of the family I am catholic and I'm doing lent. I manage to do it every year. I'm giving up soda. I thought about meat but I don't eat enough meat to say I wanna to stop eating it.@~~}Lishy{~~@
i did that a few years ago. i'm doing it again this year.
i forgot yesterday was ash wednesday and i forgot to eat a big steak on tueday. i'm so sad :(
i've been looking up recipes of things to make and i really wanna try making a seafood paella. it could feed me for three days
I'm giving up meat for lent too, I went to Catholic school most of my life but haven't really given up anything since probably high school. I'm really excited to give up meat, I gave up red meat once and had loads of energy. Good luck =)