Day 7

Menu:
Breakfast: Juice boxes
Lunch: Pringles and water
Dinner: Ramen

Today is the last day of my week as an ovo-lacto vegetarian and I don't feel any urge to continue this lifestyle. I don't have the willpower or the interest to continue being vegetarian. I suppose there is a meaning to being vegetarian, but I don't think it makes a very big difference to anyone but the one being vegetarian. I didn't really get anything out of it besides the fact that I ate way more junk food than usual and I became very grumpy. I didn't feel more awake or lighter in body and soul in anyway. I also didn't feel like I made any difference in the world. In conclusion, I didn't improve physically or mentally. The only result I think that came of this week would be my intense craving for anything meat or seafood. I can predict that I will gain at least ten pounds in the next few weeks and swear to never consider the idea of being a vegetarian again, it's just not my style. I admire all you vegetarians out there because I don't know how you guys do it. I also have extreme respect for vegans because I did happen to look at some vegan food restrictions and I can only say that I can never achieve that lifestyle.

Day 6

Menu:
Breakfast: One juice box
Lunch: Pringles, Cheez-its, and a large McDonalds Mocha Frappe
Dinner: Juice boxes and Ramen

Today is basically junk food all day. It is mostly due to convenience. I find being vegetarian very tedious and complicated (I don't like complications) because for me, if I want to be healthy I have to find or make healthy vegetarian meals but if I want to take the easy way I'll have to rely on some less healthy solutions. This might only be like this for me because I am quite lazy. In addition, peer pressure also seems to have some influence on my diet. I am living in my friend's hotel room for this weekend and her mom is driving us around, so I don't really want to be picky about where she takes us to eat and what my friends propose we eat due to our lack of money and time.

Day 5

Menu:
Breakfast: Biscuits and Hash Browns
Lunch: Cheese Pizza
Dinner: Ramen

Well, I arrived at Animazement today and everything is pretty hectic. I make do with what my friend's mom bought us and I was surprised to find that being a vegetarian was quite easy since there are several popular junk foods that don't contain meat or seafood. There really isn't much else to say.

Day 4

Menu:

Breakfast: tomato egg drop noodle soup

Snack: Some grapes from a friend 

Lunch: Steamed egg, Sautéed potatoes in a Chinese vinegar sauce, Bowl of rice

Dinner: Sautéed assorted vegetables, Bowl of rice 

I'm squeezed on a couch with four people at 2 in the morning with only 5 hours of sleep typing this post on my phone. So I'll maybe add more to this post after I get enough sleep and a computer.

With computer: There isn't very much more to add since I fell asleep soon after and woke up to Day 5 of my week.

Day 3

Menu:
Breakfast: One Activia peach yogurt
Snack: Four mini blueberry muffins
Lunch: Chinese spicy tofu, One bowl of rice
Dinner: One bowl of rice, Sautéed spinach, Leftover spicy tofu from lunch

Nothing really different today. I still fall asleep around the afternoon till third period. But I just added crab cake and buffalo wings to my continuously growing list of food cravings. I do admire vegetarians that have been doing this for more than one year; it is an admirable feat. Maybe it is harder for me since I can still remember the smell and taste of meat in addition to being constantly reminded at dinner as I watch my family gorge on chicken wings or ribs while I pick at my plate of sautéed vegetables and maybe tofu.


P.S. When I get hungry, I tend to Google search food pictures and videos. Here are some I found today:
Gourmet Burger

Steak

Sushi

Soon-doo-boo (Korean)

Kalbi (Korean)

Dessert

P.P.S. Yeah, today's post is pretty picture heavy

Day 2

Menu:
Breakfast: Cup of Milk, Slice of Bread, Nutella
Snack: Four mini blueberry muffins
Lunch: Chinese scrambled eggs with tomatoes, Bowl of white rice
Dinner: Tofu with assorted vegetables, Bowl of white rice

Well, today is Day 2 of my vegetarian week and nothing interesting has happened. I haven't suddenly felt more energized or miraculously gotten a glowing complexion. The only perceivable change I noticed would be that I seemed to have grown more aware of the smells of food from the kitchen. In addition, my list of food cravings have increased to include an almost-rare steak, the broiled lobster tail from Outback, and sushi from Tokyo 101 at Mayfair.

P.S. I don't really understand for the purpose of vegetarianism in the first place. Although according to Wikipedia, people choose to be vegetarian due to multiple reasons which include but is not limited to health-related, political, environmental, cultural, aesthetic or economic reasons. Personally, I don't really think vegetarianism has made a difference in the world. It just seems more like personal encouragement very similar to saying: "Way to go Margie! You just saved a cow today!" even though people are clearly not going to stop consuming meat and neither will the large companies stop practices seen in movies such as Food, Inc. I just don't think it's natural to not consume meat or seafood or their by-products because the very first humans depended on hunting animals to survive. But it is only of my opinion.

Disclaimer: I hope what I say doesn't offend anyone because I do have a bad habit of rambling when it is around midnight or one in the morning and I don't have enough sleep. I also don't have the urge to check over what I write at this time of night/day.

Day 1

Menu:
Breakfast: One cup of milk, Half a slice of green tea roll cake
Snack: Four mini blueberry muffins
Lunch: Bowl of Chinese beef noodle soup without the beef
Dinner: Small bowl of white rice, Boiled Enoki mushroom salad with green onions, sesame oil and vinegar, One boiled corn on the cob, one banana

This is the first day of my week living as an ovo-lacto vegetarian and I'm already wondering if I can survive this. It might seem like I'm making a really big deal out of it, but you never really appreciate something fully until it's gone or unattainable. In my case, it would be meat.  As I'm writing this blog post right now, my stomach is growling. It took me only 15 minutes to finish dinner today, compared to my usual 30 to 45 minutes or more, it feels so time efficient. However, only after one hour, I became hungry again. To think about this in a positive way, several healthy living articles and books have stated that it is best to eat multiple small but nutritious meals everyday. I could try to convince myself that I am cleansing my body and balancing my metabolism, but my stomach is telling me otherwise. Here's a list of non-vegetarian foods I have begun to crave the day my vegetarian week started: McDonalds' McChicken, Chicken Nuggets, Chick-fil-A, and the beef that was supposed to be in my Chinese beef noodle soup for lunch today.
I hope that by the end of this week, I would have developed a stronger will and a liking to some healthy food alternatives. It seems nice if I can consciously refrain from convenient food sources such as McDonalds and in turn choose to eat a salad or something similar.

P.S. A vegetarian diet is an idea that sounds very healthy and good for you, but like most ideas, it can be interpreted in a completely different way. For example, there is a wide variety of candies that classify as being vegetarian while junk food such as potato chips and ramen that are not Beef, Shrimp, Chicken or any other meat or seafood flavored can be considered vegetarian too. So technically I can load up on my favorite junk foods with some exceptions and live through this week like that. However, eating junk food three times a day for a week seems mildly nauseating and nothing sounds as filling and delicious as an almost-rare steak right now.

P.P.S. I hope this blog post makes sense in some logical way because I prefer to refer to my writing style as a "stream of consciousness."

P.P.P.S. I think I should go and try to find some more food now.