Meatless for the past week

I have changed my meal plans this past week and cut eating meat to see how I feel and if I notice a difference and I must say that I do!! I have been eating meat all my life but my husband is vegetarian. I know, I know you're probably wondering how in the world do I cook and plan the meals for my family. Well when the kids were younger I did feed them meat but they were not keen to it. As they got older they stopped asking for it and with my husband being a vegetarian that had some influence on them as well. Both of my children do once in a while ask for meat (ie. hamburger at McDonald's or hot dogs) but that's only once in blue moon and of course I get it for them. When we were living back in the States and I was working I usually just ate meat for lunch or when I went out with friends or during family get togethers. For dinner I would cook grand meals but they were vegetarian which I didn't mind and actually liked since I would eat meat earlier on in the day and that pretty much satisfied my hunger for meat. 

Although some people who are vegetarians stop eating meat to protect the animals I have chosen to stop eating it to be healthy. Don't get me wrong, it's good to save the animals too but having eaten it all my life I guess I can't say that I've done good in that aspect of it! Having not eaten it for the past 10 days I don't really crave it and eating vegetables really satisfies me. I even have meat left in my freezer and a couple cans of tuna which I have not touched and am surprised at myself for not cooking them yet!! I also feel lighter and not as heavy when I did eat meat. I have been sticking to a lot of vegetables as well as nice green salads. 

Even my husband is surprised that I haven't eaten meat, especially since he's not here right now, he's been away for work for the past month. I'm going to continue with this to see how I do and hopefully I'll stick to it so I can officially call myself vegetarian:)