While many of the challenges I’ve encountered are done to raise awareness for a specific cause (heathly eating, green living, carbons emissions, etc), or as a publicity stunt for a particular company (Groupon), I don’t believe that the cause is the most interesting part. I read these challenge based blogs and watch these challenge based documentaries because it’s interesting to see people struggle with just about anything. Ask yourself a question in the following format, and I’ll tune in for the details of what you found: “Can I really (X, where X is something hard as hell to do) for (Y, where Y is a Time Frame)?
As in,
Can I really (Sleep No More Than 2 Hrs at a time) for a (Week)?
Can I really (Drink Only Water) for a (Month)?
So, I asked myself, why don’t I try one of these challenges out? Maybe I will enjoy undertaking them as much as I enjoy seeing others take a crack. With that, the first challenge was born:
Can I really give up meat for a month? Because starting Sep. 1, there will be no hot wings and beer for dinner (beer remains intact, luckily), nor any Chick-Fil-A Spicy Chicken Sandwiches for lunch. No bacon for breakfast, and I still don’t know what to do about my midnight filet mignon milkshake.
I love meat very much, to the tune of 2.5 meals per day, 7 days per week. And I also, in conjuction with my carnivorous tendancies, absolutely hate most vegetables. Sure, I'll eat a little corn here and some broccoli there, maybe a salad from time to time, but not much else. Pre-challenge conversations with a few of my vegetarian friends suggested that there are a number of vegetable centric recepies, and meat substitution options that will easily fill my month with delcious alternatives. I think they underestimate my contempt for vegetables.
Much more to come, but the Kincaid vs. Meat challenge begins tomorrow.
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