Where do I start... I guess I'll start at the beginning (duh). A week ago I started a diet sponsored by the company who came out with the Alli pills to help you along with the dieting process. It went surprisingly well, actually. One thing I noticed was the majority of the things that fit into the scheme of my diet was that if something is labeled Vegetarian or Vegan (The diet consisted of 1200 calories and 20 grams of fat a day). So I sort of shrugged it away, enjoyed my accidently vegan food, and immediately noticed my clothes were beginning to hang a lot more loose, and I could comfortably fit things that I normally have to squeeze into. In my never-ending quest here at work for books on eating healthily and changing your lifestyle, I came across a book called Skinny Bitch by Kim Barnouin and Rory Freedman. It looked like your typical novelty diet book, complete with a skinny brunette with perfectly groomed eyebrows in a LBD on the cover... Yeah, until you open it up. Within the first 15 pages you've already recieved your first swift kick in the butt, and they don't stop there. Come to find out, one of the little Bratz dolls that co-wrote the book has a freakin' Masters of Nutrition and Dietary Science! Okay so maybe she's not a Bratz doll... More like a Nutritional Scientist Barbie. At any rate, it knocked me off my feet. I found a lot of valuable information in there, tastefully snuggled in between bits and peices of not-so-tasteful (but funny never-the-less) girl humor. For instance, I learned that we eat the pesticides (pesticides?!?! ew), antibiotics, and steroids that they give animals over the course of their short lives before they kill them. There are at least 700 different chemicals in any given peice of meat eaten. I also learned that they sell meat that was previously rotting to baby food companies. The thing is, while I hate how the animals are being treated and how they're being slaughtered, I cannot even begin to believe the horrors of the things I've been putting in my body. I learned that American chicken is by far the very worst thing you could ever eat, and studies have proven that eating American chicken gives you a 55% higher chance of colon cancer later in life. It's like eating garbage. You know there's a problem when there's an export embargo for our meats and dairy to the rest of the world. Even China won't eat our meat! So yeah, basically I'm officially vegan.
My sister and I went to lunch today. Besides her making fun of me for going vegan and telling me it wouldn't last (which didn't bother me because I knew she would), we had fun. Things have been getting better as we've gotten older and I actually enjoy her company now. We discussed the wedding a little bit, and our relationships so it was cool. We grabbed sushi - let me TELL YOU how good it was. I've become a connoiseur of veggie rolls and these were phoenomenal. They were Veggie Tempura rolls, so they had a slight, kind of sweet crunch. Add a little soy, wasabi, & ginger and BAM! I'm still day dreaming about it.
What I Ate Today:
Breakfast: One whole apple, one small bag of Newman's Own organic carrots
Breakfast: One whole apple, one small bag of Newman's Own organic carrots
Lunch: Veggie Tempura Sushi from Ginza - YUM
Dinner: I'll have to let you know tomorrow. But as far as I know, salad.
Just finished:
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
** It was wonderful! I really enjoyed it. I would reccomend it to anyone.
Current Reads:
Skinny Bitch - Kim Barnouin and Rory Freedman
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (I forgot how good it was!)
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