The End...

Well, it's the end of Lent today... that makes the the last of the official posts for this whole experiment. Last photo... last post... last day...

I've noticed, especially this week, that it's much easier to give something up than it is to start something new. I'm no more than a week into my latest "fast" (beef) and I'm not terribly worried about missing it. At the same time, though... this week I've managed to slip every single one of my days past without a workout. This troubles me a bit, but apparently not enough to motivate myself into the gym. Part of it is also me waiting for something, waiting to be able to swim as my next workout. Of course it goes that as soon as I get a pair of goggles to swim with, the clouds roll in and sit on the city for a week. This blog has also slipped by this week as well, and I apologize to all those who were consistently reading for that.

I feel as though I've managed to get through pretty well with "doing or not doing" -- we'll see how I can keep going with that in my life.

Beer returns to my life tomorrow. It will be interesting to see how I respond to the return of something like this.

Tomorrow, Easter in the Christian Calendar, is a new start, a new beginning, a new return, something -- really anything, new. Some things may change, some things won't, but in the end, it is really these new things that make the days different, that give us a reason to savor each one. Enjoy the new, whatever it may bring to you.

Thanks for reading everybody...

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4...

And then there were 4 days left. 4 more days with which I can work before life changes again, until the end of this experiment, this trial. It's been pretty good. I know I've been slacking a bit lately with the blogs. Of the "do, or do not" portion, I did not. I don't know if anything struck me as far as why, but at this point, reasons are too late to fix those days.

Now questions begin to rise in me, wondering if I did what I could during this forty day period. Wondering if I could have done more. Knowing that I could have, actually, but wondering why I didn't do more, I guess.

So far, I'm not really missing beef too much. I do look at it in the grocery store, and wonder why I decided to give THAT up for the month of April, but I know that it'll all work out in the end, and I'll likely grow because of it.

I'm already at work on my May challenge, and I think I may have found it -- removal of all things fried. Being a proper southerner, I do enjoy most anything fried. This does lead to a lot of extra fat and other nasty elements coming into my system, but it TASTES SOOO GOOD... :-p But yeah, that may just have to be my May challenge. My sister has given up fried foods for Lent, so I'll give her massive credit for helping to motivate me on that quest. If a better idea comes along, I'll definitely post it here... for now, though, I'm off to go finish up these next 4 days in as strong a way as I can...

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Buh-Bye Beef

So it's the end of one month, and the beginning of another...

Happy April Fool's Day everybody! I don't have any pranks or jokes to play just yet, but I may come up with something before the day is done, I've got a few hours left to make all that happen.

I've decided to continue my experiment in removing various things from my life, and I'm going to give up beef for April. I had some burgers tonight to enjoy before I pushed it all away for the next 30 days. This doesn't mean all cow related products (milk, cheese, etc...) just the meat that I have come to love so much. Part of me wants to do this for some of the healthy benefits that might come from eating a leaner kind of protein. The most significant reason, though, is to challenge myself to cook outside of beef, something I feel that I may rely on as a crutch when prepping food. I see much more chicken and fish in my future for the next month. I'm kind of excited, really, with new opportunities opening up with this.

I've found that it is things like this that challenge us to expand our boundaries, to see things in a slightly different way, and to learn to live our lives differently.

I've still got just over one week for my beer removal, and I'm feeling pretty good about all of that. The beef removal may even be tougher than removing beer from my diet, but we'll see. I plan to keep going on this blog with some regularity after I finish this 40 day trial, so keep checking in on that in the future.

For now, though, I'm going to go get some sleep, and worry about everything else tomorrow...

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