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Having a meatless August made me a better person.
If you’ve read any of my other stories on here, I quit drinking alcohol back in June. Without alcohol, I started to feel increasingly more aligned with my body. It was like I was hearing what my body wanted, what it needed for the first time in a long time. Alcohol breaks that connection that you have with yourself. Keeping that connection severed for so long and trying to re-establish it now was something that was almost as hard as giving up alcohol in the first place.
After seeing that I could give up alcohol, I wanted to keep challenging myself. I had opened up something in me that wanted to see exactly what my limit was. The possibilities, which were limited while I drank, were spread out before me. It was almost overwhelming. I didn’t know what my limit was anymore but I was curious to find out just how far I could go.
The gauntlet was thrown
It was near the end of July that I logged in at work and saw there was a message letting people know a meatless August challenge was starting. The rules were simple. No meat for an entire month except for seafood. If you failed, you had to pay out to every single person who started the meatless August with you. I had been looking for a challenge and this basically fell into my lap at the right moment. It was nice having that incentive of paying out because I knew it…
