| Food for thought: The eating habits of a psuedo vegan.
I'm not a vegan. I would love to try it someday, but that probably won't happen until I'm off to college and have the indepence to do what I want with myself. So, for now, I dabble in minor bits of veganism and act as a full on vegetarian. This is a little look into the hurdles I've been working on to get to my ultimate goal: A sugerless, caffieneless,meatless, possibley animal by-product less life.
What I don't eat:
Meat (obviously)
Mayonnaise
Yogurt
American Cheese
Anything that I don't know the full ingrediants of
What my diet mainly consists of:
Bocca Burgers
top ramen
Muffins
Cupcakes
Iced Tea
Coffee
Obstical #1: The first day of school.
First day of school, lunch. I walked into the cafeteria and looked around. The previous year I'd eaten nothing but sugary garbage. Don't get me wrong, I have a serious sugar/caffiene addiction. It's just not really enough to subsist off of, and I'm trying to cut it out of my diet. I ended up eating pizza, the school's sorry excuse for expresso, and a cookie. I felt like I was going to puke. I'd hadn't eaten that much in one sitting all summer. I hadn't eaten that much grease all summer. The next day I opted for a muffin and "expresso". This would become my lunch every day. Well, not much longer, because Monday I'm going cold turkey on the school expresso. I should actually start taking my lunch, but I never have time in the mornings, and who wants to eat cold bocca burgers?
Obstical #2: Caffiene
Over the summer I spent time with my extended family in a cabin in New York. They're all big coffee drinkers, and I got in the habit of having a cup every morning. Which soon turned into two, sometimes three cups every morning. Prior to this I'd had somewhere around a cup every three days. When I got home, the first thing I did was go out and buy instant coffee. The rest of the summer it was a ritual. Wake up, get coffee, shower, loaf around. With school starting back up I've done pretty well, but there have definately been a few mornings when I succombed to the lure of caffienne. I've had to start avoiding starbucks like the plague. I can't get too close or I'll have to go in.
Obstical #3: Cupcakes
This is probably the biggest hurdle I've had in my quest for healthy eating and vegetarian perfection. Cupcakes are my minor obession. To quote my friend Megan, "it's effing psychotic. Get some help". To be entirely honest with you, it's really linked to a longstanding issue with emotional eating. Cupcakes look like such happy, sunny, bright things, and so when I'm upset, what's better then that? It's been somewhere around a week since I've baked cupcakes, and I'm pretty proud of myself. If I don't bake them, I can't eat them. Although that doesn't mean I haven't felt lonely and headed for the snack cabinet. But, like with the rest of my diet, I'm cutting it out piece by piece, bit by bit. |
