Well the progress update in brief is that I am meeting all of my weight targets and feeling quite good but I am having a hard transition to veganhood.
I was doing fine until the hubby brought home a big jug of chocolate milk. Once the boys emptied it and it was sitting in my recycle bin I was ok again. That is until last night.
I started getting an insane craving for french fries covered in gravy and cheese. A poutine. It happened innocently actually. I was looking through some video info and saw the word routine. My cheese starved brain thought poutine and then I spent the rest of the day craving poutine. Can you think of anything more fattening than poutine?
Other than that I am adjusting fairly well and have been seeing weight loss (yay!). It is encouraging to see that but now I have become neurotic about food. I think that if I cave in and eat badly, even just once, that it will undo a whole week’s worth of work.
I need to chill out a bit but I think I will wait until I hit my target weight goal and then will treat myself to big veggie burger from Red Robin!
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I have been vegan for a little more than three weeks, and the cravings have just started. “Insane” is an apt way to describe them in my case. They are borderline uncontrollable. Last week, I was walking by a Taco Bell and couldn’t continue until I had purchased not one, but two, 7 layer burritos (minus some layers). I also get edgy every time I hear the word “cheese.”
I’ve managed to stay strong thus far and maintain veganism, if not a healhy diet.
My friends have promised that it gets easier, after a month you feel like you can do it forever.
And chocolate Silk or Rice Dream Chocolate Chai are your friends.
-Charissa