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I live in Virginia and I've been a vegetarian since July of 2006.
I cut meat somewhat gradually. I stopped eating beef and pork in January of 2006. I was never a big fan of pork in the first place, but steak was a little hard to give up. I stopped eating chicken and fish after I went to a vegetarian festival in July. I also try not to eat foods with gelatin in them. I read the ingredients of gelatin and just got disgusted and stopped eating those kinds of foods. I also don't drink soda. I gave that up five or six years ago.
It's been a little difficult to make the switch to a vegetarian diet. I've been trying to eat healthier, but it's a day-to-day process.
My problem now is how to survive my first Thanksgiving as a vegetarian. As far as I know, I'm the only vegetarian in my family. I'm going to my grandparents up in New Jersey and there will about twenty relatives that I will see over that weekend. I guess I'll have to ask a lot of questions about what ingredients go in to the food and watch what I eat.
