Today's vegan bites include:
1.) 16oz soy caramel latte
2.) Gianna's vegan peanut butter cookies (3)
3.) Indian food: saffron rice, vindaloo mushroom & peas, madras tofu and madras vegetables
4.) a late afternoon repeat of #3
5.) Rice Dream Frozen Pie - Mocha
6.) 1/2 an apple, Fabe's Bakery mini macaroons (10pcs)
7.) Amy's veggie cheeseburger
(117.2lbs & 23.1% body fat)
Another drizzly, cloudy morning. This time, it doesn't remind me of Europe. It's just a drizzly, cloudy morning. It's nice though. Cool, kinda dark mornings are somewhat romantic. I like it because around noon, it clears up and gets all nice and sunny and beautiful. Except for today, it cleared up around 2pm.
While prepping the dogs' breakfast, I was thinking of eating a little more clean. By that, I mean, no fried foods; of course, maybe holding off on the Rice Dream frozen treats (I've pretty much had one everyday); and focusing on raw fruits and vegetables. I'm not going to go entirely raw but I'd like to make sure that I have less cooked vegetables and some fruit in my meals today.
This didn't happen.
The first thing into my stomach was a soy caramel latte at 11am that I picked up at Leonidas right after yoga. Coffee suppresses my appetite so I didn't eat until closer to 2pm and I just ate the leftover Indian food I picked up from the Whole Foods' Deli last night - Vinadaloo Mushroom and Peas, Saffron Rice, Madras Tofu and Madras vegetables.
Late this afternoon, I stopped into a Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf with hopes of picking up an Ice Blended and since they use a powder mix for their blended beverages, they couldn't make it vegan; the powder contained milk. Kind of like at Leonidas, they melt their chocolates to make their mochas and their chocolates have milk in them. Anyhow, I passed on the Ice Blended, came home, and ate the last of the Indian leftover. It was just about 6pm.
My experience with the pledge has been uneventful, unchallenging and fairly easy and effortless. It's like I'm expecting something radical to happen (I think I said that in a previous blog). I don't know - lose a friend or two, register as a PETA member, stand in front of Trader Joe's asking shoppers to sign a "no animal testing" petition but nope, still partied on Sunday, still met friends for dinner and drinks, still enjoying all the simple things life offers - maybe even enjoying it more. When's the confronting, thrown in the furnace kinda stuff gonna happen?
I am going to Maui towards the last six days of the pledge with two of my friends. What the three of us had in common, what we bonded over, was our love for chowing down, particularly, surf and turfs, foie gras, ribeyes, kobe beef and racks of lamb. One of the two teased me today that there must be a 25 day vegan pledge somewhere out there. Basically, suggesting the pledge ends on day 25 because that's the day we leave for Hawaii. This way, I can turn carnivore again, at least temporarily, while in Hawaii.
I'm not too worried about Maui. Sure, I'll be a little bummed...not when they're eating mammals or poultry because I really don't want these things, but when they're eating lightly seared toro. That, I think, might be a little painful. And malasadas. Particularly, because I'm probably going to be the one picking up the malasadas bright and early. The only time I ever get to have malasadas is when I'm in Hawaii. At this very moment, I don't want the malasadas so I'm okay with it.
Hmmm...maybe a subtle shift IS taking place. Maybe I'm not noticing it, but perhaps my cravings don't have quite the hold they used to have over me. Or maybe, it's just that what these foods are made of and what has to take place to have these foods are so egregious that my cravings pale in comparison.
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