Day Three: Vegan Efforts Failed.
I failed today to keep vegan.
It started off on the wrong foot when I decided to go with a bagel and light veggie cream cheese for breakfast. And then lunch rolled around... And I agreed to meet a vendor at a restaurant near Quincy Marketplace. So I didn't eat lunch until about 1pm... And lunch was a buffalo chicken sandwich... Which meant...
A really difficult yoga class!!!!!
Ugh. I had the same problem today as I did yesterday. Belly was too full and any pose that involved putting pressure on my belly had me in pain. There was one point where I felt my throat start to burn, as though I was gonna vomit. And rabbit pose, I couldn't even get into that pose.
So, I've made it through Day Three. But I think I will ease up on the whole "vegan" thing and just switch to a "vegetarian" diet while I am going through this 30-day. I need to have some cheese. I can go without the meat and I can do only soy when I drink my coffee, but I gotta have cheese.
It started off on the wrong foot when I decided to go with a bagel and light veggie cream cheese for breakfast. And then lunch rolled around... And I agreed to meet a vendor at a restaurant near Quincy Marketplace. So I didn't eat lunch until about 1pm... And lunch was a buffalo chicken sandwich... Which meant...
A really difficult yoga class!!!!!
Ugh. I had the same problem today as I did yesterday. Belly was too full and any pose that involved putting pressure on my belly had me in pain. There was one point where I felt my throat start to burn, as though I was gonna vomit. And rabbit pose, I couldn't even get into that pose.
So, I've made it through Day Three. But I think I will ease up on the whole "vegan" thing and just switch to a "vegetarian" diet while I am going through this 30-day. I need to have some cheese. I can go without the meat and I can do only soy when I drink my coffee, but I gotta have cheese.
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www.VegRecipes.org
there's mac uncheese, cheesy sauce, cheesy soup, and more -- all without dairy!
I'll definitely check out the recipes though. Thanks!
Vegan doesn't work for everyone. It requires a complete mindset change. When we went vegan, we ate pretty much the same thing for months as we figured out what worked and what didn't. Going vegetarian was easy -- we just substituted cheese for all the meat... :) But when we had to drop dairy (long story), that was a -major- mental shift.
There's an excellent recipe archive at http://www.fatfree.com all of which are vegetarian (and the vegan ones are labeled as such, so you can do a search on 'vegan' and find them all). It was formed from many years of collecting recipes from a formerly-active mailing list for fans and/or followers of the diets promoted by Drs. Dean Ornish and John MacDougall. They have the added bonus of being either fat-free or minimal added fat.