Jan

12

More and more vegetables

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It’s been two full weeks since I last ate a piece of meat. I only had a tuna sandwich wednesday, mostly because there was not much else left to eat at the place where I usually lunch from monday to friday.

I haven’t felt any urges to eat meat during this whole time, and that’s a first.

So, what am I eating? At the moment, my typical diet is the following :

Breakfast :

1/2 liter smoothie : typically 2 squeezed oranges, 1 banana, 1 kiwi, 1/2 cup of soy milk. But I’ll make it with any fruits to come at hand : mango, pineapple, strawberries. I’m planning on making bigger morning smoothies, perhaps heading to 1 liter. (I’m very inspired by Steve Pavlina’s 30 days raw experiment, start reading it here).
Then I go to work and once there I usually eat a banana and three clementines.

Lunch :

I usually have a mixed salad with various kinds of lettuce, carrots, cucumber, tomatoes. Those at the place near my workplace are huge and served with a piece of bread. Sometimes I have 50gr of feta with it. That’s enough to keep me filled until 4PM. Then I eat some more clementines.

Dinner(s) :

When going back from my day job at 18pm, I usually have a bowl of soup with 15 gr of cheese and a bit of homemade bread before heading off to my evening job. When I get back at around 11pm, I sometimes have mashed yellow split peas with tons of pepper and a drop of fine olive oil. That’s a very easy to do and extremely satisfying meal that I highly recommend ;) When I ate if for the first time, I remember telling myself “Perhaps being vegetarian isn’t so bad after all”. Sometimes I’ll just have some more fruits.

On the weekends we have more time to cook, so we prepare vegetables pies, nasi gorengs with tons of vegetables (way more than what Indonesians do, I reckon), and try our best to imitate our favorite Indian dishes like alou chana, alou sag and dal tarka.

It seems my urges to eat more and more fruits and vegetables are growing stronger everyday. I never thought I could actually enjoy it one day. My love for clementines is getting quite impressive.

For now I’ve seen two main benefits in eating this way :

Even though I wasn’t fat, I could afford losing a few pounds. Those extra pounds are slowly going away.

My digestion period is much less noticeable than before. The after meal used to be a time of extreme fatigue : yawning, impossibility to concentrate, feeling of being overweight. Now I don’t have a time off after eating anymore. I can just keep working and am not feeling my body actually working to digest what I just put in it.

I haven’t felt any improvement in my overall fatigue though. Considering the amount of time I spend working and the fact I have 6 hours nights, I don’t actually feel extremely tired. However, I was expecting to feel a bit more energetic, especially in the morning. Nothing of that kind has happened yet.

I’ll keep you posted on my evolution. Meanwhile, check out my new article with tips to eat more healthy foods.


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