Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Confessions of a Fake Vegan Returns: Epic Fail!
So as you know I'm attempting to eat healthier. I thought as part of that I'd do a vegan week again (you may remember I did that a while back). I wanted to start sooner rather than later, but looking at the calendar, I don't have a full week without dinner plans any time too soon. I was invited to a friend's house for dinner last night (I wasn't going to be like so I'm being a vegan for one week, can you please replan your whole menu?). I got invited to someone's house for dinner one night next week. The following week I have a work party (bought my ticket, plan to eat and get my money's worth and we are not going to a vegan restaurant). Going to another friend's house for dinner one week the week after that. Anyway, I decided, well, I'll just do half a week eating vegan and go for a full week later in the month. I decided to start today and end Friday night (you guessed it, have plans Friday night and not sure there will be vegan options where we're going). So I was careful, did my research, had a vegan breakfast, had salad for lunch and didn't even put croutons on it because I wasn't sure those were okay. Switched from my usual dressing to a vegan friendly one. And then for dinner I ate a veggie burger. I was feeling pretty proud of myself UNTIL I found out the veggie burger IS NOT VEGAN. What the heck?! After that, I got annoyed and ate something with dairy and I drank some milk. If I've failed, might as well fail all out. I mean it's my own fault for not looking, but you'd think a VEGETABLE burger would be vegan. Who knew! So I will try again tomorrow and see if I can go Wed, Thurs, and 2/3 of Friday (dinner plans Fri night). Then later in the month, perhaps I will try a full week again. I don't know how vegans do it. I could never really be a vegan. I think I could MAYBE do vegetarian, though I'd sure miss my seafood. I make chicken meals, which I enjoy, but I could give them up--I think. Eggplan parm is just as good to see as chicken parm and I could probably substitute zucchini in my chicken crescent roll casserole, but I'm just not sure I could do without my ocas. sushi or fish and chips. But I tell ya' I could not go without my dairy. Love my milk and cheese too much. And a lot of foods have milk and eggs--including veggie burgers apparently, but ironically, not Oreos (too bad I'm not a huge Oreo fan) so I don't think I'd make it as a vegan. But for 2 2/3 days maybe just maybe I can do it. And then maybe I can do it for a full week! I'm sure you'll be reading about it in a future blog. :)
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I don't want to be all preachy and tell you what to do, but if you want any tips on how to lose weight, ask me. I refuse to just give unsolicited advice though, so I'm not going to. But I have 1 million helpful tips I could give you. They are the complete opposite of vegan though.
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