The hubby and I embarked on a non-New Year's Resolution on January 1st...but we are ready to grow the challenge.
We’ve decided to take on this 30 day challenge to eat mostly vegan, mostly unprocessed, mostly whole grain foods. We will do this all of February, plus today to get our total 30 days. We’re calling it Vegan-ary (ya know…instead of February). No more “cheat days”, not for this month. We’re going all in. The rules are pretty simple:
1. Eat a mostly vegan diet eliminating ALL meat, eggs, and dairy. We are making exceptions to a truly vegan diet by still allowing honey (as the FoK diet does) and gelatin.
2. Eat only whole grains at home when cooking or eating bread or pasta. If we go to a restaurant we may bypass the whole grains requirement, so long as what we are eating is still a vegan meal (with noted exceptions above).
3. Reduce added oils and sodium when cooking at home. Again, restaurant meals are an exception so long as we stick to #1.
4. Eat primarily whole foods (grains, fruits, and vegetables) and cut out most processed foods (which we currently rely far too heavily on)
5. Don’t break the rules for all of Vegan-ary!!!
I want to post regularly throughout Vegan-ary to document the improvements (or problems) that I’m noticing. It’s not my intent to document exactly what I’m eating and turn this into a food blog, although I will talk about it some if anyone is interested. I’m more interested in documenting how I’m feeling, changes I’m noticing, the way my runs are going/feeling/timing changes, etc. I want to look back and have a record of how improvements in my diet are affecting me.
When we had our first 8 day streak (January 1-8) we were feeling down because we didn’t notice any changes. Or so we thought. What really happened is that we had forgotten just that quickly how badly we had really been feeling before. This time, I do not want to forget. I want it on here in all its glory…the clichéd good, bad, and ugly. I am so beyond ready for Vegan-ary to begin!
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