Today's food intake included toast with tomato, avocado, sea salt, ground pepper, cayenne pepper and parsley for breakfast. Spaghetti with tomato sauce, chili flakes, cauliflower and broccoli for lunch. A snack of humus with organic tortilla chips, and for dinner, a toasted brown rice tortilla with avocado, spinach and shredded rice cheddar cheese.
Also, I've been getting back into the habit of drinking tea, so I had a cup of green tea, a cup of chamomile tea and a cup of acai mango tea.
I'm not sure why I'm still not craving cheese, eggs or milk but I'm not. I thought that by now, I'd at least have had thoughts of them, but no...nothing. I mean, I'm not complaining. I'm just not quite understanding this since I was truly so madly in love with them. One question I do keep asking myself though is...why did I decide to go vegan so close to the holidays? Really? What am I going to feel when I see my mom's cheesecake displayed on the holiday table? And her homemade eggnog....ummmmm...better stop writing now, or else I'll have to retract my earlier statement about not craving anything :) .
There are so many topics I want to research and write about regarding nutrition in general. All in due time. I'd just like to make it clear here and now that this blog isn't just supposed to be about me and my food intake, rather I want it to be a place where we can all come together to learn about and discuss various ways of making ourselves and the planet healthier.
Thank you again, Matt, for commenting on my first post here. Thank you also for the information/statistics you added into it. That was perfect...a perfect beginning to this blog.
You're welcome, I appreciate that so much.
ReplyDeleteI drink lots of tea, now, too, especially decaf green. I gave up caffeine a couple years back because I wasn't sleeping well. While I had worked out most of my sleep issues going into the vegan diet, I've noticed additional improvement.
I'm about three months into it and I find even looking at cheese makes me feel a little bit "ugh." As in, it seems heavy, like it wouldn't sit right. Now the same is true for cheese substitutes - I used them a fair amount in the beginning, and now I don't use them much, because I forget about them.
You're off to a great start with the meals! I have some staples I eat a lot of and which don't require much cooking: rice and beans on tortillas with tabasco or salsa or spices/herbs, oat bran, Bob's Red Mill cereals. I wish I lived a bit closer to a Whole Foods, where they have fun vegan pre-made salads. I graze on kale, broccoli sprouts and carrots pretty regularly, and then random veggies and fruits. I'm very fond of kale because along with a couple other leafy greens it's the most nutrient dense food there is, and I find the taste relatively agreeable (especially after forcing myself to eat it several times and get used to the bitterness and tough texture). I have a big bag of pumpkin seeds. And nuts! So many delicious nuts!
It's fun when I pig out on something healthy, like broccoli sprouts or carrots, and afterwards think to myself "I'm glad I just ate all those," instead of "I regret doing that." And my body feels good afterwards, unlike how it feels after overeating something heavy and high in sweet/fat/salt.
Thanks for the ideas on the snack foods, Matt. I tried the Kale and see what you mean by "forcing" yourself to eat it a few times to get used to it. After I tried it raw though, I cooked some in a pan with olive oil, cracked pepper and a bit of sea salt and ate that alongside some leftover sweet potatoes and that was really good. I will keep trying to get it down raw though. Like you said, that truly is the best way to make sure that you are getting the most of the vitamins and minerals in the foods you eat. Funny, my son loves to eat his veggies (and potatoes, which I found out are not so good to eat raw because of minute amounts of toxins in them) raw. And nuts!!! And seeds!!! They are the best...all different kinds!
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