November is Vegan Month!
If you are reading a dieters blog, you are probably just like me. We struggle to break bad habits and every Sunday night when we're in front of the TV stuffing our faces we're planning Mondays new diet (which lasts until Monday evening). I'm going to embark on a journey of vegan diet :O shocked face. Yes, it's painful to say it, but let's stay positive. IT IS NOT A DIET. If I call it a diet it'll last two hours. It's a challenge. And I love challenges!
If this is something you've considered trying too, then try it with me! Each day I'll be documenting what I've eaten, and how I feel. It's not going to be easy, but I don't like to lose (unless it's losing weight), so this is a challenge I'm hoping to complete and prove everyone wrong.
I'm one of these people who comes up with a new diet idea every week, i tell everyone about it, and it never lasts. The soup diet is my favourite, it usually goes like this...
"I feel so fat and it's my friends birthday coming up and she's really hot. I'm going to go on a soup diet for a week to drop a dress size." ... Off i trot to the supermarket to buy lots of vegetables. I spend a day cooking soup. A week later, there's 4 litres of soup stinking out my fridge. FAIL.
So as you can imagine, not many people have much faith when I tell them about my new idea.
I've decided to try the vegan challenge because, in all honesty, my diet was horrendous.
Since coming back from travelling, having lost 10lbs, and sampling all sorts of healthy balanced meals from around the world my back-to-Britain-diet has mainly consisted of bacon sarnies, cheese toasties, and pies. OK, not just those three meals but you get the picture. Now, I feel awful, sluggish, lethargic, heavy, and unattractive.
I understand the humane side of going vegan, but admittedly, it doesn't bother me too much. I kind of think swings and roundabouts, if we didn't kill animals there would be something else affecting something else affecting something else. I'm not a cold hearted cowbag. I'm so glad I'm not a farmer because I certainly couldn't treat animals the way they are treated even though I buy and consume the products, call me contradicting, I guess ignorance is bliss.
So, I've just been to the supermarket, and bought some tofu, and soya mince, and all sorts of vegan food substitutes and I'm so excited to try some of them next week! (I'm away for the weekend so I guess I'll be living on jacket potatoes, and soya sausages for the next couple of days).
I'm going to continue to write everything I eat in the hope that I'll be less inclined to slip up because someone might read about it!
In all honesty, I wasn't prepared to begin the challenge so I used dairy milk, not soya. However, I did go out and buy a Soy Latte an hour before breakfast so I'm pretending that counteracts the dairy on my breakfast.
Lunch - Falafel and Humous wraps. Mmmmm who'd have though Vegan food could taste so good?!
Dinner - Cereal :S naughty me, but I've been at college until 9pm and it was just convenient! Oh and still no soya milk BUT I'll get some soon!
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