Day Five

I am at the beginning of day five without meat. I feel so much better. I've had chocolate and ice cream and fish but no chicken or other meat. I've known for a long time this is the way to go, but 50 years habit is hard to break. I love chicken and turkey. I think that right now it's easy to stop because the pain my body is in finally outweighs the pleasure I get from eating meat.

I'd be driving home, thinking maybe I'll stop and buy some chicken wings, turkey wings, kfc, whatever. I'd enjoy the first few minutes of it and then by the end of it, be feeling totally bloated and miserable. My body simply can't handle it. And for an obsessive-compulsive eater, meat is the the way to go. Takes me forever to digest it. Right now I feel lighter, cleaner. And not because it's evil to eat animals. It's because my body feels better without eating meat. Although I do on one level think it's evil to eat animals. For me at least.

Anyway, I feel good today. Happier. Each day that goes by without eating meat, I feel better than the day before.