I Completely Forgot to Do My Three Week Review!

Whoops, sorry loyal readers. You know, all seven of you. Yesterday was Wednesday which means two significant things in my life: A week anniversary of stage 1 of my attempted veganism, and dollar drinks at my favorite gay bars. The latter is not very important to this blog.

Week three arrived with no sentimentality, no struggle, not much of anything. Which probably means I'm making progress in adapting this as a lifestyle change.

So the big questions, I'm sure, are answered below. Please contact me if there are additional things you want answered on the weekly reviews, or even in seperate blog posts.

What, in my opinion, am I doing right?
This week, I started introducing a lot of raw food to my diet and am pretty pumped about it. It's not a very original thought, but I always feel so clean and pure afterwards. There have been more than a couple of meals where my meal was a carefully thought out plate of well-balanced fruits, nuts, and veggies and I walked away fully satisfied each time.

Additionally, I started depending a lot less on juices and liquid and my water intake went through the roof. I have no intention of cutting coffee, juice, non-dairy 'milk', or social drinking out of my diet any time soon, but I do think moderation is really important. I only drank alcohol once this week (last night, to be exact), and woke up this morning exhausted but not completely dehydrated with a headache, and I am 100% sure it's because I'm drinking so much water. I have decided to more or less cut milk out now. Mostly because I discovered rice milk, which is lower in fat than a lot of the other substitutes and not very expensive at Trader Joe's. Again, I'm not being very judicious with other people's cooking, reading ingredients, asking how things are prepared at restaurants, etc. and won't be until the final stage, which I expect will take place over the spring. I am being extremely judicious when I make and prepare food myself, and no dairy, eggs, and certainly no meat products are being used.

I also cut way down on meat substitutes this week. Most of them are a lot healthier than the meat variety, but it's still a lot of overprocessing that I'd just rather not take in unless it was unavoidable. Again, I probably will never cut them out completely, but they need to go from being staples of my diet to occasional treats. This week, I think I obtained this and just need to keep it uo.

I cut way back on cheese this week! Again, there was one notable run to that Tex-Mex place we all know and love, and I ordered a sandwich with it on it. That was all!

I've also gotten primo compliments on how I look like I've lost weight, even if I'm not sure I have.

What's not going well?
Actually, the only thing I can think is that next week should mark the end of the Great Cheese Cutback, and I'm honestly not sure I'm ready to move on to no cheese ever. I'm contemplating cutting back to once a week, add a stage. Otherwise I think I'm doing alright. I had a PCOS freak out that ended in having a torte, but that was really about the only large amount of refined sugar that I took in. Cut way back on alcohol, caffeine, processed food, etc. So I think it's just nervousness about the next stage. We'll see how I feel in a week.