Tonight I tried to cleanse a little. I haven’t eaten very healthfully over the past few days nor have I had any type of serious exercise so for dinner I made myself a green monster.
This particular mixture was all vanilla almond milk with no hemp milk as we have none in the house. 
Afterwards we took the girls to the park for about an hour of play time and are now home relaxing before sending them off to bed. I’m super excited about having an extra day at home and plan on waking up at 7:30 to get in a good run before breakfast. Then it will be hanging pictures and waiting for the cable guy to come hook us up!
How do you plan on spending your holiday??
Let me introduce you to Jennifer. She and I became “blends” (blog friends) many months ago and occasionally chat on twitter and facebook. She is my newest guest post for the I’m A Vegetarian series and I really loved the honesty in her story. I hope you enjoy it too!
My name is Jen, and I’m a vegetarian. But I’m a bad one. But before we get to that, let’s back up a bit.
Back in April 09 I mentioned to a couple people that I was thinking about going vegetarian. I do this every so often, but rarely stick to it, so I should not have been surprised by the snickers and the “yeah, whatever”s that I got from people. That made me upset though. So what if I never follow through on anything. I could do this if I wanted to. One random Tuesday that April, I quit eating meat. I did it out of spite.
For over a year I went without eating any meat, except for one time to prove something to my mom (again, spite….amazing how motivating it can be!) I enjoyed finding new foods to eat, new ways to prepare favorite dishes, and new healthy ways to feed my kiddo.
After I passed the year mark, the spite basically faded away. At that point I had a blog, Vegetarian in Training which was about my attempt to live a healthy, meat free lifestyle. With no spite to keep me going, I considered going omnivore again. My blog ideas slowly dried up as I lost my motivation. I came to realize that I needed a real reason to stay vegetarian.
I posted something about giving up my veg-ness on Facebook. One of my friends offered to send me videos from the slaughterhouses, but that didn’t do it for me. One of my friends told me to just start eating organic, free range meat. I considered that. And then one of my friends told me to stick with it, because I was her inspiration. That was hard to say no to.
So I stuck with it, though I was still fairly uninspired. A large part of me does it because I am concerned with the environment and know the impact the meat industry has on our lands, waters, and air and another part of me does it because I am concerned about the way the animals are treated, though I am not really an animal person. But maybe I do it because I am embarrassed to admit that I am giving up.
I eat vegetarian 99% of the time. If there are no decent veggie dishes available at a restaurant I will eat fish. If it will aid in family harmony, I will eat whatever is being pushed at me (and trust me, both sides of the family are pretty darn pushy when it comes to food). But when given the choice, I will always choose the veggie option.
I feel better being a vegetarian. I feel like I am making a difference, even if it is a small one. I feel like I am exposing my son to a healthier style of eating than I was exposed to at that age. And really, that is more than I could ask for.
If you want to follow Jennifer on twitter you can find her here! She really makes twitter fun for me…
HAPPY LABOR DAY!!
