bye bye burgers

The past few months, I’ve been working on becoming healthier. I’m exercising again, I cut back on coffee, started eating my veggies and now I’ve decided to take this whole ‘health-kick’ one step further — I’m going to practice the art of living off of vegetables — yes, it’s true, I’m becoming a vegetarian! To be quite honest, I’m not exactly sure where my inspiration for this has come from, I’ve been a pretty big meat eater my whole life. Perhaps it’s just the natural evolution of well, me. I say this because I’m not doing this to protest animal rights, or to lose weight. I’m doing it because recently, meat just has not been appetizing to me. I haven’t been craving a lot of the foods I used to, like burgers, steaks, bacon (okay wait, I think I might really miss bacon)— instead I’m drawn to salads, fruit, rice and beans, veggie burgers...the list goes on. So I’m figuring, why not give this a try? My plan of attack is to start slowly. I’ll begin by cutting out red meat and work my way into taking out turkey and chicken. Shouldn’t be too difficult, since I’ve really only been eating chicken anyway. I’m saying goodbye to steak and chops and hello to fish and beans.

So wish me luck as I embrace this new lifestyle! And for any fellow vegetarians out there, I’m eager for words of advice or even better, favorite recipes! Right now, I’m basically living off of veggie burgers with hummus—I highly suggest giving it a try, they taste great together!

xo,
Julia, beauty intern