Today's vegan bites include:
1.) My Green Drink - kale, collards, spinach, lemon, apple
2.) Strawberries & blueberries
3.) A giant bowl of french fries
4.) (2) Traditional mojitos
5.) (1) Brown sugar mojito
6.) (1) Strawberry caprihina
7.) (1) Vodka shot
8.) Veggie burger
9.) Rice Dream Frozen Pie - Mint
(117.2lbs & 23.3% body fat)
Happy 4th of July, America!!! I'm so grateful to be living in a country where I have the luxury to sit around, twirl my hair around my finger and say, "Hmmm...now what do I want to eat today?" and then go out and get it and then come home and "blog" about it. It's so easy to take these simple freedoms for granted. Today gave me the opportunity to presence how fortunate, blessed and LUCKY!! I am to be American and call America my country and my home. If it wasn't for my dad serving in the U.S. Military, I could be struggling simply to eat!! Today is the perfect time to reflect...and celebrate!
In typical summertime fashion, I celebrated our independence at a Fourth of July pool party. Great crowd, great music, amazing drinks...and nothing on the menu that didn't include animal suffering of some sort. I'm glad I packed some strawberries and blueberries - they're so in season right now - and snacked on them but they didn't quite hit the spot. My body's not used to clean, light and simple foods; it was craving something dense and greasy. So, like yesterday, I ordered french fries again today. Greasy. Fried. What I wanted. I enjoyed the giant bowl of skinny french fries and not one, not two but THREE mojitos, a vodka shot and what I think was a Strawberry Caprihina but everyone was calling something else. And on a day like today, vegan sure was expensive!! Over $100 for all these "vegan" concoctions!!
On a serious side, french fries and mojitos, and even Rice Dream Frozen pies, aren't what veganism is about. I'm not looking to be that person who adopts only the "I'm-not-eating-animal-products" side of veganism, then turns around and feeds her body non-animal product crap. However, I've been that person who eats what she wants, regardless of whether it was fried, or is high in fat or good for you. French fries on a daily basis is common for me but it was french fries along with a bacon, gruyere cheeseburger. I rarely ever ate vegetables but now as I incorporate more vegetables into my meals, I think there'll just be a natural shift in what my tastebuds want and crave.
So yes, today was all crap food. It has nothing to do with veganism or the vegan pledge and has everything to do with me and my carefree/careless eating habits. Put it this way, if I wasn't on the vegan pledge, I would've had the skirt steak, the giant bowl of fries and a strawberry fudge sundae with the mojitos and caprihina.
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