Breakfast, fruity oaty cereal with soy milk. A fairly
mundane start to the day. Jumped on the
scales expecting to have lost at least 2kg from my efforts over the past two
days and was rewarded with a 100 gram increase! Short-termism? Me? Possibly.
So far there haven’t really been any physiological or
psychological changes. Not too
surprising considering the duration of the experiment thus far. There have been
a few interesting things:
- I haven’t been hungry. Actually, this isn’t quite correct. I’ve felt full, but sometimes I’ve felt like eating out of habit. When I stop to think about what I want, I find that I’m not actually craving anything, except maybe the ritual of stuffing my face. Interesting.
- I haven’t experienced any lightness of being or spiritual awakening. I have felt a little better and alert at times. But then I’ve felt sleepy too. Too early to draw conclusions.
- Last night I slept for 9 hours and woke up sleepy. No idea why. Probably just lazy :)
I went to the local coffee shop (Taylor Street Baristas… I
love you guys!) and got a soy flat white.
Oh. My. God. Best coffee
ever. Instead of covering the coffee
flavour, the soya added a silken smoothness to it. I have always liked soy milk, but given a
choice of going back, I’d gladly stick to soy purely for the taste.
Next up, off to the Holland and Barrett health food store to see what they
have. Turns out the answer to that is “quite
a lot”. It isn’t cheap though… Once
again my hobbies are looking to set me back a few extra pennies. Anyway, grabbed some vegan multivitamins (I
don’t trust my ability to correctly balance my diet yet), almonds (yummy snack),
quinoa (seems to pop up in a lot of recipes) and “Maca’s Secrets” cereal (not
sure why I got it, seemed like a good idea at the time). My vegan pantry is starting to fill out
nicely!
Anyway, lunch was chili chickpeas a broccoli, corn, kidney
bean salad. Both were delicious and
filling. I’m beginning to see why people
claim that going vegan actually expands your food choices rather than limiting
it.
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| More food than I can eat... And that's really saying something! |
In the evening I went to the gym. This is what I was curious about. Would I
feel weaker? Sluggish? Like Superman? A
weird mix of each? Anyway, I started
with my normal weights – push ups, sit ups, lunges, chin ups, leg press, dips,
chest press and the like (basically 3 sets of 8 for everything). The difference in the end? Not much. Felt
like normal. Next up was cardio. Since I hurt myself running on the weekend I
went to the stationary bike. So very
boring. 10 minutes was all I could take
before feeling like going into a coma.
So I jumped onto the treadmill and did a slow 10 minute jog. If it wasn’t for the pulled calf I would have
felt pretty good all said. Let's see how I go once I can get a proper run in.
I’ve been reading up on Veganism, understanding more about
the dietary requirements, along with gaining a better understanding of the
moral issues. I’m not sure about
throwing out the leather lounge, but I will definitely be avoiding purchasing anything
new that is an animal by-product. So for
now I’ll go with trying to be 100% food vegan, with a slow trajectory towards
the full lifestyle change required to be a “lifestyle vegan”.
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