These were soo good, velvety smooth texture and a frosting so incredibly good I could make it every day!
May 17, 2008
It’s so hard to relax when there’s other people in the house, so, no yoga today. I’m thinking of going on a diet, but what else can I cut out? I’m a vegan who doesn’t eat refined sugar, eats very little saturated fats and shuns almost anything white. I’ve already lost weight since going vegan, but I guess I want faster results, I don’t have a scale, but I’ve been vegan for one month and my pants are already loose, so, I think I’m just impatient. I have decided though that I need to exercise more if I want to lose faster, but my neighborhood doesn’t have many sidewalks and I don’t have a license so, I can’t just go drive to a park, I don’t have many options in the exercise department unless I pull out The Step and get my step on which sounds a little too boring to do every day. There’s something somebody said to do that I’m going to start doing, before eating, drink 2 glasses of water and eat 2 apples, wait 20 minutes, then, eat your meal, and you’ll eat a lot less, so, I’m definitely going to do it. I know I already eat less calories than the like 1,500 they tell you to cut it down to, I don’t count them but I eyeball it. I really just need to get up my motivation to start my juice fast, I feel isolated at the moment because I’ve been spending a lot of time at my mom’s and I haven’t seen my dad in what feels like a long time, it was only 4 days, but it feels like longer. I just have trouble dividing the time because I feel like my mom is angry if I’m not with her, so I end up spending a lot of time with her and none with my dad because he’s so sweet and supportive of whatever I do. I just can’t wait until Lisa goes and gets married to Tony finally, then, mom will move to the same town as my dad and everything will be simpler. I just need a friendly vegan face (aka. dad) to talk to and relate to and right now, I feel like I don’t have that.
Yoga as a Priority May 17, 2008
It’s been a few days since my last post, I wonder how I vented my useless info while I wasn’t blogging? Anyway, I’ve decided that yoga needs to start being more important than cleaning like a maniac. I need to relax, stop worrying about silly things, so, I need more one on one time with Enya and my yoga mat. I hear that morning is the best time to do yoga, but, as you can tell because I’m awake at 3am, I am not a morning person, and at noon when I wake up, I have too much to do, so, I either need to give up my adoration of night blogging and such or learn to clean faster lol. Well, as I said, I’ll need to give up my love of night blogging, so, I’m off to bed.
Hmm… May 13, 2008
As I said, I have no idea when I’ll actually have time to do my fast, but, it will happen.
Anyway, I’ve had such a lovely couple of days, it’s 1:30 am right now and I’m not very tired, but I should probably go to bed, I have to be up in…let’s see…6 hours to go to Disneyland. Dad and I have been planning on this trip for weeks and we’re finally going. I wish we lived in Florida and could go to the vegan friendly Disneyworld instead, but alas, we do not, so, we bought some cute soft sided ice chest thingies at Target today and I’ve stuffed them with fruit, baked chips, granola bars, Izze Esque soda and of course the ever present pita bread and hummus. We’ll probably check out The Rainforest Cafe for dinner, they have veggie burgers, but otherwise, I think we’re out of luck, vegans who don’t eat anything refined or anything with sugar at Disneyland are like carnivores at my house, completely and totally out of luck.
Update: So, we never even went to the lockers, we ended up eating bananas, pineapple spears, popcorn, and Marinara Fu-Silly (how cute is that?) for lunch. We didn’t eat dinner while we were there, because the line for Rainforest Cafe was sooo long so we just went home and ate non dairy burritos for dinner at like 9:30 while we watched American Idol.
Dude.. May 11, 2008
So, I have a lovely vlog all made up for you all, but, it’s taking a super long time to post to my server, so, it’ll be here soon. visit my website web.mac.com/kshadley soon, it’ll be there.
More Unforseen May 11, 2008
Ok, so, now it turns out dad wants to go to Disneyland on Tuesday, so, that wipes out a chance of starting the fast then, it’s hard enough finding veg food in D-Land, try and find fresh pressed juice. So, I’m going to stop telling you when I’ll start the fast blog again. It will be in the near future. I had a wonderful day with my mom today, both of my friends pulled out of the protest, so, we’re gonna do it next week. So, instead of doing that I went to Whole Foods and got the stuff for my mom’s dinner and then spent the afternoon with her. Tomorrow, Ryan and Jen are coming over for Mother’s day, they say they’ll be here at ten, but, that probably means eleven, so, Lisa and I will be peeling potatoes for hash browns tomorrow morning. To the mothers out there, have a great day!
Ok, well… May 10, 2008
I made up with my mom tonight, so, I’m going to have to put off my fast until after Mother’s Day because I’ll be cooking for her for. No biggie, though. I’m going to make Vegan Mac and Cheese and Vegan Newman O Cupcakes, my omni family will be amazed at how yummy vegan food is. Anyway, back to the juice fasting blog on Tuesday.
Much love
Prep Day 1- Maybe… May 9, 2008
this won’t be so hard, I’m sitting here eating corn, and I’m cool with it, I like corn. I think I’ll have trouble not being able to eat anything, but, I’m not in this to have a really enjoyable time, I’m in this for spiritual enlightenment and to get the toxins out of my body, anyway, I’ll see you tomorrow.
Prep Day 1- So… May 9, 2008
I’m a little bit hungry and a lot craving something hot. I can’t wait for this part to pass, it’s especially difficult knowing that there are Gardenburgers and Tings in the kitchen. But, I’m doing this for the simple reason that I don’t want to care about food, so, I’m re-training my body one food-less day at a time. I’m going to go in the kitchen and get some berries.
Good Vibes
K
Prep Day 1 May 9, 2008
So, today is my first day of prep for my fast. I went to Whole Foods this morning, thought I’d share with you all what fruits I’ve selected. They had a fabulous selection today and I went early this morning, so, there was no one crowding up the produce section.
Oranges
Pineapple
Grapes
Strawberries
Blackberries
Raspberries
Cherries
Kiwi
Watermelon
Honeydew
Bananas
Peaches
Dried Apples
Dried Bananas
Dried Peaches
Dried Cherries
Apple Sauce
So far today, all I’ve had to eat is an unsweetened, non dairy Jamba Juice that I got at Whole Foods
The medium one is big enough to last me half the day, I haven’t finished it yet. I feel great, I already feel better not having that full feeling. I meant to get some corn too, I love raw corn, but, I forgot, that’s ok, I’ll live without it, this part only lasts 3 days, then, I’m onto juice.
I got a new wooden cutting board, it’s bigger than the one I have now, with all the fruit cutting that will happen in the next month or so I needed a better cutting board. I also found a cute, pink thermos to keep my fresh juice in when I have to be away from home so that it stays cold and doesn’t get any air in it. I felt so good walking into the line at Whole Foods with my reusable bags and no produce bags, what do you really need them for? I just loaded my cart with stuff and the cashier put it all into my canvas bags, produce bags are one of those things that are completely unnecessarily poisoning the planet. Produce bags are like Doritos, they are totally unnecessary and seriously detrimental, but everyone uses them anyway. I hope everyone is having a good day, I sure am. I’m going to go and finish my protest signs.
