Veggies Anyone?
I am almost at the 14 day mark with another 16 or so to go, still. This has now become easier than I thought after the first few days were very difficult.
Will I make it?
Are the challenges stacking up against me?
Is this fun?
It all started with Chris giving me a book “Vegan for Fit” by Attila Hildmann. It has a really nice and easy opener in it which is nothing about the poor animals or how humans were never meant to eat such items. No, it starts with a picture of a plumpy guy telling his story. A story of how he was tired of just feeling blah. And I fell right for it. Well, the book was already bought for me. Wonder now why…..
To make this 14 day story short, I have been totally vegan for almost 2 weeks now. I eat fruit, berries, loads of veggies & wholewheat grains. I drink green tea, soy milk or wheat drinks. My breakfast smoothie is the following:
- 200ml wheat drink
- 100ml orange or grape juice
- 1 large banana
- 1/2 avocado
- 3 Tbsp chopped red beet
- 2 Tbsp almond paste
- 1 handful of blueberries
- 1 handful of raspberries
- 1 rounded teaspoon of matcha (ground green tea)
- a dash of agave nectar
That all lands in a tall mixer and using my hand mixer that then gets turned into a smoothie. This concoction gets me up and going in no time flat. The matcha has be buzzing for hours and feeling great. I have to say that all in all, this vegan diet is pretty nice. I sleep wonderfully. I feel great all day long. I eat plenty of food all day and do not miss much. Probably the goodness of all the food is making me feel good and that is why I miss less the other things.
The book has a 30 day challenge. Chris and I initially just wanted to try to make it a single week. That passed and she missed her cakes but I have kept on. We ate vegetarian very often before, but meat was always around. And actually, more difficult than missing the meat is staying away from the dairy. Cheeses, spreads and eggs are very tempting. That will probably be the harder thing to go without for long. Plus fish. I really miss fish. Oh, oh, oh.
So, it is day 13 today. The 30 days end on Christmas Eve. Guess the timing of it all was pretty good. The cookie factory will be starting up here in a week or so. That then will make this all really hard.