Vegan Rehab
When it comes to food, lately I have been as a ship at sea with no sail and no anchor. My consciousness makes me strive to be vegan, but recent upheavals and emotional issues have sent me into recklessness when it comes to food. I'm addicted to coffee, and have been drinking non-fat lattes and those improved-yet-still-ridiculously unhealthy frappuccinos (I get free drinks at work everyday...it's hard to resist). Oh, 35% real whipped cream...I've developed a bit of a fat tooth!
The real piece de resistance was yesterday. I went shopping for fruit and veggies at a market that I hadn't been to before, and they were selling cheese curds. The kid in me thought "Ya! I don't have to share these with my brother!" I bought them, thinking I could store them and indulge every so often over the course of the week...and ended up eating the whole friggin' bag on the drive home.
After work (10:30 pm) I hadn't eaten any dinner (my stomach had been confused by the latte and coffee cake earlier and had forgotten to ask for real food) and stopped in at a 24 hour grocery store for veggie samosas. Well, they didn't have any, so intead I picked up beef samosas and ate those instead, along with an entire bag of pita chips!!
I can see what's happening here. I need to make a conscious effort to choose vegan foods, ditch the coffee and replace it with lots of water and always eat enough food over the course of the day to avoid binging later.
I long to return to the days of low fat raw vegan eating. I felt so amazing then, and my body was grateful for the nutrition and the vitality restoring, living water.
My plan is not to dive right in to any sort of lifestyle commitment, because I always seem to fail with an all or nothing approach. I intend to return my focus to a diet that is whole food vegan while gently yet steadily increasing my exercise and replacing coffee with green tea until I can eliminate the desire for caffeine altogether.
My only guidelines this week are: replace coffee with green tea; and make more conscious food choices by preparing my day's menu in advance and having an action plan. It will be easy to bounce back into vegan, once I make a dedicated effort to eliminating dairy again. The buddhists say it takes 21 days to change your habits; others say a moon phase (approximately 28 days).
Welcome to Day 1!
The real piece de resistance was yesterday. I went shopping for fruit and veggies at a market that I hadn't been to before, and they were selling cheese curds. The kid in me thought "Ya! I don't have to share these with my brother!" I bought them, thinking I could store them and indulge every so often over the course of the week...and ended up eating the whole friggin' bag on the drive home.
After work (10:30 pm) I hadn't eaten any dinner (my stomach had been confused by the latte and coffee cake earlier and had forgotten to ask for real food) and stopped in at a 24 hour grocery store for veggie samosas. Well, they didn't have any, so intead I picked up beef samosas and ate those instead, along with an entire bag of pita chips!!
I can see what's happening here. I need to make a conscious effort to choose vegan foods, ditch the coffee and replace it with lots of water and always eat enough food over the course of the day to avoid binging later.
I long to return to the days of low fat raw vegan eating. I felt so amazing then, and my body was grateful for the nutrition and the vitality restoring, living water.
My plan is not to dive right in to any sort of lifestyle commitment, because I always seem to fail with an all or nothing approach. I intend to return my focus to a diet that is whole food vegan while gently yet steadily increasing my exercise and replacing coffee with green tea until I can eliminate the desire for caffeine altogether.
My only guidelines this week are: replace coffee with green tea; and make more conscious food choices by preparing my day's menu in advance and having an action plan. It will be easy to bounce back into vegan, once I make a dedicated effort to eliminating dairy again. The buddhists say it takes 21 days to change your habits; others say a moon phase (approximately 28 days).
Welcome to Day 1!
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