Last Day as a Vegan!

Wow! I can't believe 3 months have already come and gone!  I also can't believe I was a Vegan for 3 months.  I have to admit the past 2-3 weeks have been a lot harder.  Not sure if it's because I knew it was ending soon or I was just getting sick of it??

Most of the diet I didn't mind at all...It was easy.

So what am I going to keep from this diet?  The first thing is Almond Milk.  I love it!  I also really enjoy coconut milk ice cream.  I will also take the recipes that I tried with me because I liked them all.  I learned that I can cook better than I thought I could.  I learned a lot more about using spices in my cooking for flavoring.

Tomorrow morning I'm getting my blood drawn and will check my Cholesterol, Vit B12 and Vit D levels.  I will post the differences as soon as I have results.  I will also see how much weight I lost tomorrow after I get on the scales. (I'm not expecting much after the last couple of weeks!!).

In the end I'm really glad I did the Vegan diet.  I feel great being on the diet and was able to get off my blood pressure medicine.

On to the WHEAT BELLY!!! I can do anything for 3 months....right?????

Less than a week!

I can't believe that the Vegan diet is about to end! Sunday will be our last day being Vegan. I am planning on having my blood drawn on Monday to check my cholesterol.  Should be interesting.

I went to some friends for dinner on Sunday night and had meat for the first time.  We had pork sandwiches and they tasted delicious!  I am not a huge pork fan but it was the best I've ever eaten! I had a bad week and actually had 3 cheat meals. The other 2 contained a lot of cheese (still the thing I missed the most).

This week I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to start eating next Monday.  Looking at some new recipes and convincing myself it won't be too bad...

10 weeks down!

So this is what I've learned about blogging.....I'm really bad at it. 
I really never imagined it would be this hard to blog once a week.  I'm not doing the best and getting it done weekly.  I talked with Meghan last night and she has the same problem.  But blogging does hold me more accountable so I will continue to try my hardest to get it done. 

Still losing a little bit of weight and still feeling good.  I went to my cousins birthday lunch on Saturday and they all had pizza and I settled for the salad bar.  I really wanted that pizza because once again it's the cheese that is my biggest craving.  I did use my cheat meal to have a piece of cake and wished I would've used it on the pizza instead :)

I made one of the greatest things I've ever made last week. It's called Red Red and it's delicious. It was my favorite dish when I was in Ghana and when Barbara would make it for us (about 2-3 times a week) I would always get excited.  I tried to make it a few years ago and didn't have a good recipe and it didn't turn out.  Sometimes in Ghana they put fish in it or fish oil or shrimp powder but other than that it's Vegan. So I just left out all of the gross seafood stuff and it was still delicious.  I recommend trying it, you will not be disappointed.  The recipe is on the recipe blog. 

Time is almost here for the new diet.  I'm excited to see if my cholesterol has changed much.  I am a little scared of knowing what I'll eat for the next diet but that just means I have to try new recipes!