So I'm Going Vegan...

It's that time of year again, stuffed my face on pancakes and now it's time to give something up for 40 days and 40 nights. Raised Roman Catholic, I've pretty much attempted to give up everything possible (expect alcohol... Never alcohol), so this year I thought I'd actually challenge myself and give being vegan a go.

I know what you're thinking, vegans are freaks. They come from some other world where they don't eat bacon OR cheese and are obviously not the full tin of buscuits. Having been a vegetarian since I was 10 or 11 years old, I'm already half way there and after watching 'Vegucated' last week, it's something I really want to do, just to see if I can. 

Life has pretty much been all change over the last few months, so I figure why the hell not. 

I'm hoping it's not going to kill me and I'm hoping that it's going to teach me a lot. So many people just write us veggies off as Eco-weirdos without actually understanding where we (or that steak you love so much) come from. 

Giving up meat was always easy. I don't actually like meat, I find it kind of repulsive. Chicken I loved, but after really trying to put it back into my diet last year, I just can't do it. Morally, I can't cope with eating a clucky, rather unintelligent animal... I have too many feelings- I know.  

But I love eggs, and I love cheese, and I love chocolate. I'm giving up cheese and chocolate. Everytime I remind myself of that fact it feels like a punch in stomach all over again.

So, this challenge may kill me off and if anyone mentions it to my Italian Grandmother, it may well kill her off too (she already struggles with me not eating meat, imagine how she'll feel about this!), but I want to try and hope to live to tell the tale. 

Wish me luck.

-xo