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Going Vegan

A strained omnivory

February 10, 2010 by hollie Going Vegan

Thanks for all the recent comments. I’m not back to eating meat all the time, but I have been eating more eggs than usual, and some salmon. Since the last time I wrote, I believe I’ve had salmon a couple times, and last night I had some chicken.
I’ve been sleeping like a log, which is [...]

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Responding to comments about my meat eating

February 2, 2010 by hollie Going Vegan

Wow, and here I thought no one I didn’t know in person read my blog, and I just woke up to seven entire comments. Seven! That’s about five more than usual. And Rustin, you read this! I really like your writing, I’m flattered.
So first off I want to thank everyone who commented, but especially the [...]

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I don’t know if I can be vegetarian.

February 1, 2010 by hollie Going Vegan

So it’s been over two months since I went veg. I sailed through the first 4 weeks. By week 5, I wasn’t feeling super great, but didn’t connect it to my diet. By week 6, I was noticing I really wasn’t feeling very good. Mostly I felt run down, and I wasn’t sleeping well. In [...]

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21-Day Vegan Kickstart

January 4, 2010 by hollie Going Vegan

Feel like going vegan for the New Year? If you head over to 21daykickstart.org, you can try a vegan diet for 21 days and see how it feels, in a program designed by the Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine. I’m not sure I can go from vegetarian to vegan in 21 days, but I do [...]

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Happy New Year everyone!

December 31, 2009 by hollie Going Vegan

I hope everyone is going to have an awesome evening! I’m at home with the guys and the kids, enjoying a quiet evening. I dislike crowds and traffic, so staying home tonight is actually a nice treat. We’re going to watch some fireworks on the TV pretty soon, and until then I was reading some [...]

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Vegetarian for 12 days; still alive and happy

December 16, 2009 by hollie Going Vegan

Honestly, I wasn’t sure this was possible! While driving around town the other day, I was musing on this to Greg, who said that he thinks the reason it’s stuck when it’s never stuck before is that I’m doing it for myself, not to fit into a group or to “be the person you think [...]

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Responses to my change to vegetarianism

December 10, 2009 by hollie Going Vegan

I got so many great responses to my last post, that I thought I’d try to respond to points in another post. I’m sure I’ll forget some things, but just nudge me if I do!
Such great comments! I feel like I’m going to miss stuff, but I’ll try to get to everything:
1) Yup, I’ve read [...]

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I just went a week without meat, and I don’t intend to eat meat again

December 9, 2009 by hollie Going Vegan

I didn’t want to write about this until I’d actually spent a few days eating vegetarian food….but now it’s been eight days, and I’m still alive. Eight days? Without any meat at all? What happened? I read a book, and it changed my life. A week ago I read Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals, and [...]

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Eating meat: so far, no heart attack

May 30, 2009 by hollie Going Vegan

Well, the last three days I’ve had two servings of meat a day, a whole slew of fruits and veggies, and hardly any grains at all. I feel a little confused and guilty admitting this, but I feel amazing. In two days:

My anxiety has been much better. Yesterday I almost missed a dose of my daily [...]

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The vegans are gonna kill me (but at least they won’t eat me)

May 28, 2009 by hollie Going Vegan

Okay.
DEEP BREATH.
So….I’m taking a break from trying to go vegan.
I’ve been trying for months, and I’m doing horribly. My weight has gone up, my anxiety has gone WAY up, my panic attacks have increased, and while I don’t blame going vegan for any of this specifically, I have been keeping track of what I eat [...]

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