I don't miss a thang.

Gosh, I am LOVING how I am feeling. I feel empowered, stronger, and so much healthier. I have been dying to go for a run, but this week has been the busiest of crazy times with school, so tomorrow is my first opportunity. I'm so pumped. I don't miss meat, I don't miss dairy, and I don't miss eggs. I am learning what to substitute in a normal recipe to make it vegan appropriate. Every meal is an adventure & the thrill at the end of tasting the first bite makes every questionable moment during preparation worth it. I needed coffee I needed to be awake for my super long night class yesterday, so I stopped at starbucks and got a soy milk pumpkin spice latte, which was fabulous. 

I completely understand how people can be a vegan, I never understood before. "How do they eat? That sounds boring. No steak and A1? No scrambled eggs and cheese?" I think it's like when you start losing weight, you step on the scale and have lost 2 pounds, you just get motivated to keep going. It's working & you're feeling great. Why stop? I'm there. I'm only on week 2, and I am already reaping the benefits. My mom came to visit us the other day, which meant she was taste-testing so many of my cool snacks/foods. She actually liked them. I say "actually" because she's been pretty skeptical of all this, haha. She'll be a believer in no time.

Meals: My most recent favorites have been my brownies from tonight and a simple salad attacked with a ton of vegetables. Yum. Here's the link to the recipe for the 1 minute coffee cake. (I used applesauce in place of the oil//butter and did 2 T of wheat flour and 1 T of white). For my brownies tonight, I substituted a banana in for the egg. You know what was awesome? Eating some of the batter and not worrying about salmonella. Yum. Oh, and I did try some meat-less beef tonight. It wasn't gross, but it just felt unnecessary? The tacos would have been just as good without it. And one less processed food.

Just wanted to do a shout-out real quick. No lifestyle change is easily made without support. So to Justin, Cara, Emily, Allen, Mom, Alayna, Adrienne, and Aunt Rhonda, thank you. I know I have to be forgetting someone, but please know, you mean more than my memory can say right now. ;) 

Here's a glimpse of some of the foods I've made since the last time: 

1 minute coffee cake.

Simple & tasty snack

My salad bomb of veggies

the lovely caffeinated beverage that kept me awake until 2am.

amazeballs.

from today, still yum.

a trader joe brownie mix that I used.

my sweet tooth was conquered.