{"id":222,"date":"2009-05-26T11:37:15","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T16:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2009-05-26T11:37:15","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T16:37:15","slug":"vegetarian-for-a-week-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Vegetarian For A Week &#8212; Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I went a week without eating a single piece of meat&#8230; sorry Bri.<\/p>\n<p>The results were fine. I lost two pounds. Some of it was really difficult, but I managed. And I did stay away from meat that I normally love to have.<\/p>\n<p>Some meals included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spaghetti with sauce and bread (had once)<\/li>\n<li>The pipe noodles with cheese, bread (had this twice)<\/li>\n<li>Panara cheese and broccoli soup bread bowl (had this twice)<\/li>\n<li>Grilled cheese and corn (had once)<\/li>\n<li>Pancakes, eggs, and biscuits (had once)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The hard parts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eating spaghetti with no meat<\/li>\n<li>Being very picky as to where to go out to eat (ate at Panara and Bob Evans)<\/li>\n<li>Scrapping the toppings off the meat lovers pizza at work<\/li>\n<li>Not eating chicken that Monique brought in for lunch<\/li>\n<li>Not eating the same meal as Brian<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The good parts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sauce and bread<\/li>\n<li>Panera<\/li>\n<li>Caramel frapuchinos<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was a pretty positive experience for me. I never really ran out of food ideas because I was always willing to just eat a vegetable and something else small. And I wasn&#8217;t craving meat during or after.<\/p>\n<p>My first meal on Sunday consisted of BK&#8217;s breakfast burrito which I love. We also did steaks that night. I really did miss meat but I never like craved it. Shawns steak after a week without meat was the best, though!<\/p>\n<p>This experience probably did change me a little. I noticed I don&#8217;t eat as much meat now, since we had ribs last night and I didn&#8217;t eat them all. Bri and I will probably eat more sea food now, like shrimp and fish. Being away from fast food probably did my body good, too.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"43 Things\" href=\"http:\/\/www.43things.com\/things\/view\/132301\/be-a-vegetarian-for-a-week\" target=\"_blank\">See my entry in 43 Things!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I went a week without eating a single piece of meat&#8230; sorry Bri. The results were fine. I lost two pounds. Some of it was really difficult, but I managed. And I did stay away from meat that I normally love to have. Some meals included: Spaghetti with sauce and bread (had once) The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}