I'm totally not kidding with this. My wife has been getting on me to lose some weight and I simply am being sick of feeling like crap all of the time. I listened to a great interview with Arian Foster (vegan) the other weekend and he talked about how a switch needs to turn on in your mind where you "eat to nurish your body, not your emotions". That hit me hard. It's absolutely true. In this country, every holiday or gathering is centered around food. So Americans have been programmed to eat out of comfort instead of nourishment.
So I told my wife that I would dip my toe in this diet for the following reasons:
1) To get healthy
2) To do my part to stave off commercial animal farming
3) To do my part to lower greenhouse gases (cow poo is a larger portion of our country's carbon footprint than automobiles.).
4) Because she is doing it and I want to support her
So I started at the beginning of the week and it was pretty tough at first. No milk, no eggs no cheese. I also am constantly looking at labels to not only make sure that there are no animal products, but also to find foods that are high in things like protein, calcium and Vitamin D which are things veggies generally lack. These were the hardest, but now (just like Arian Foster promised) I feel lighter, happier and have WAY more energy after just over one week.
Here is what I had for lunch:
a six inch veggie delight with all of the veggies (sans devil tomatoes) with oil/vinegar, salt/pepper, and sweet onion sauce. I had a side of apple slices and a diet coke. The whole meal was delicious, filling, cheap and under 400 calories.
So... are there any vegan diet folks on here that want to share some of their meals? Anybody want to tell me i'm retarded?
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