Week one!

So week one has gone rather well.    I have been discovering that there are just a lot of substitutes for food that I would normally eat.  For example yesterday I discovered that there is vegan butter!   That means today's big meal will include a baked potato!    

I've also discovered that I tend to have more energy lately and can make it through the day without desiring a nap (unless I stay up till 1:00 then I'm still a bit tired.

The hardest part of being vegan I have learned is that in our society we tend to have food for any social event and that's tough to explain why I'm not eating is because nothing there is actually vegan.  But it makes for great conversation and others a little more aware of their health

Other exciting news is that yesterday I weighed in at 120!

The Rest of the World

So today was one of those days that I realized that American culture is not very Vegan friendly.   I was first at a gymnastics meet where they provide food for the coaches to find that there was NOTHING originally planed that could be vegan.     It was a good thing I threw a couple Cilff Bars in my bag.  

The next issue was going out to dinner of an entire menu at a restaurant I could only find a total of 3 things that were vegan - rice, and 2 types of salad.    

This really proves to me just how unhealthy the American diet is - we will grab a piece of pizza far before an apple and we will eat some hot wings before a nice salad.   I guess thats what this whole experiment is about after all.

The Secret

So I have one major Secret on how to survive a vegan diet

Yep.  It's a wonderful thing that chocolate cream filled Oreos are vegan!

Day 3 going strong!

Flatbread and a Fedora

HAPPY DAY 1

All day today during class I thought and thought about how my lunch could go with my outfit.   And then I remembered one of my favorites from the mission was a flat bread wrap!

So Heres what I used:

• whole grain flat bread
• Some pinto beans I had cooked a couple days ago in taco seasoning
• lettuce
• tomato
• some humus to glue the edge together

Wrap it all up nice and tight and EAT!

Last Treat

So Today marks my last day before I start my Vegan experiment!  
To celebrate I had my last BYU donut - also my first since getting back from my mission.

So Cheers to going vegan!

Lets start from the very begining

This weeks starts my first of my 6 week experiment going Vegan.

So what is Vegan?  

it is a diet where I dont eat any animal based products like meat, milk, or eggs.

Why am I doing this?

So because my major is in Exercise and Wellness I have a couple classes that require a diet change.   I also am doing a research project on the effects of a vegan diet on type 2 diabetes so I decided to try the diet myself.

The point of this blog is to make this change fun and to maybe encourage a few others to eat a little bit healthier.   So i will write about the recipies I try as well as the physical affects I can feel from starting the diet.

Starting Point:

123 lbs at 5'2" which is a BMI of 22.5     which is a normal healthy BMI