Loving Eating Vegan

As you all know I am deciding to eat vegan for the next month. I always want to make it clear that I am eating vegan not becoming a vegan. I know that I will not be able to cut out meat completely and I will cheat every so often so I don't want to call myself a Vegan. I feel it will be too hypocritical to label myself a Vegan when I'm doing this for health reasons and not because I love animals, or the environment.

I am in love with my new eating habits! I feel amazing, my stomach hasn't hurt since I started, I haven't had any emergency bathroom trips, and the most amazing thing is I'm not as hungry as I thought I would be. Usually around 9, 10 or 11 I get hungry, the feeling of knowing I shouldn't eat but I want to more than being hungry. This feeling has been alluding me this week, it's awesome, the idea to eat is there but I am full or not craving as hard as I usually do. Either way I'm very happy about it, and because I eat mostly veggies I eat whenever I want.

I made a stew today; and I'm not a great cook I can bake but cooking has never been my strong point. The stew is so flavorful! Now the lentils aren't exactly fully cooked and the carrots are a little hard but the flavor is wonderful. I put it over rice and I couldn't finish it because I was full. That's another thing about eating vegan the full feeling isn't like your going to bust and feel awful it's like you are chalk full of goodness.

Now I'm not saying I haven't had struggles, we went to a friends house last night and M and D got pizza delivered and oh man it smelled good. But I took some crust and ate my rice, fortunately I had a bunch of veggies before I left so I was still full.

First vegan recipe a success, first 4 days a success, still very excited. :)