Leena

All your comments were so nice, and so helpful, it really means a lot to me :)   I often see the internet as a very apathetic place, where people  can be inclined to “vent” to much with the mask of anonymity.  I am quite happy to have stumbled on to this site!!!

Last nights dinner went splendidly, we had hot pot, and I managed to completely skirt the animal products.  I had Miso broth and just  munched on tons of spinach (one of my favorites anyway), tofu, woodear mushrooms, and sprouts.  They didn’t seem to feel the urge to play food police on me, and didn’t notice or care that I didn’t eat meat.  They arent horrible, just very set in thier opinions.  Chinese new year was a festival of meat, and I couldn’t get away from that get to gether so comfortably, heh

Zhaynya, you commented that you gained weight off a vegan diet..  A lot of vegans seem to eat too many simple carbs for the easier way to eat.  I’ve been known to indulge in gluten free vegan frozen waffles with peanut butter on them … a vegan option, but not one that caused me to have a lot of luck on reducing!  Now days I try to make sure that 80-90% of my foods are  made from vegetables or fruit, don’t add any salt (which is bland ’till you get use to it), and try to keep things as un refined as possible.

Today’s food choices were:

Breakfast : 1 Serving Bobs  hot cereal, plain.  About 1.5 cups of various fresh cut fruits.

Lunch:  Whole steamed edamame beans, 1 cup…  Half a bag of steamed spinach with  no salt seasoning… a ton of broccoli.. and a desert from ingredients that my mother inlaw sent home with me last night —   fresh ginko, some sort of papery bean curd stuff, and raw rock sugar,  tossed into boiling water and simmered for 20 mins.  

Dinner: Haven’t done it yet, but I made some fresh gluten free brown Rice bread, so probably that, some steamed veggies, and more ginko desert..

In addition to that I made a ton of teas to help my husband’s tummy.  He didnt abstain from meat last night, and is now paying :)   so 1 tea has hawothorne fruit and gogji berries, the other  is 5 flower tea.   1st one is for health, 2nd is to detoxify you~

I have been vegan (this time) about 5 months and have lost a bit over 20 lbs (I barely avoided hitting the dreadful 200 lbs)..  it’s not been as quick as I  would like, but, I haven’t been exercising like I should~  and have been a bit (or very?) inactive with the  freezing winter (omg excuses).