Fear not , for Grey Goose vodka is vegan

So...I've decided to go vegan for 30 days. I don't think it's going to be that big of a deal - I've been eating vegan a lot lately, so the only food I had to throw out last night was the rest of a stick of butter and the last whole wheat English muffin. Who knew it had buttermilk in it? There's gonna be a lot of label reading around these here parts for next 30 days, at least.

I started today, and so far so good. A friend asked me for dinner this evening, and my first question was "do they have vegan food?". Then, because it is a mexican restaurant, I panicked. Are margaritas vegan? Jose Cuervo Tequila is for sure - I looked it up on Barnivore, which tells you if a particular brand of alcohol is vegan or not. You'd be surprised at how many animal products are used to filter alcohols. Stuff like egg whites and fish bladders. Now you know.

I think the trickiest part is going to be sugar. Regular old refined white sugar is either made from cane sugar or beets. Now, cane sugar is sometimes filtered through bone char, therefore making it non-vegan. Beet sugar never is, so you know you're in the clear there. And raw sugar is fine, too (I think). I bought a small bottle of cranberry juice cocktail, and it said that it either beet sugar or cane sugar, so it might be fine, but it might not. And I think for my purposes, unless I know for sure, it's not ok.

And so it begins. Stay tuned for more vegan adventures!

Right.

I want to want to be healthy. But I think I just like pie too much.

Does anyone out there have any suggestions on how to get motivated?

Daily Weigh In

224.4 lbs.

What I ate today:

1/4 of a bagel, toasted with butter

fresh fruit

two mini pastries, one of which I decided was gross so I didn't eat it after the first bite

1/2 giant streusel-topped muffin

leftover hot and sour soup (with crunchies)

half a serving of mu-shu chicken

several slices of beef with broccoli

three cookies (glutton!)

and, of course, diet Coke

guacamole and chips

several bites of a vegan black bean and rice burrito

Disaster!

First things first: Daily Weigh In - 225.4 lbs.

I knew things weren't going to go well when the first thing I wanted this morning was sugar. Breakfast was a plain bagel, half with cream cheese and the other half with butter.

Ok, that's not as bad as it could have been, you're thinking, right?

Yeah, just wait.

At lunch all hell broke loose:

some sort of smothered chicken with

artichoke hearts

followed by a mini croissant with butter

cobb salad

a walnut brownie

an oatmeal cookie

AND a diet Coke. You know, 'cause it has fewer calories.

Then 2 mini Almond Joys

Dinner was a little more on track:

Cobb Salad

At least I walked home from work.

Daily Weigh In

225.4

What I ate today:

raisin bran with skim milk

beet salad

grilled ham and cheese on cranberry walnut bread

small bag Cheez-its ( I love those things)

diet Coke

grilled shrimp caesar salad

two mini Almond Joys

one raspberry tootsie pop

Well, I did ok till the end there.

Daily Weigh In

225.8.

Daily Weigh In

Back to 226.

Also, still boring. Sorry.