I am working today, so I packed some food for breakfast and lunch. So far, I've had some Kix, soy milk, breakfast potatoes on my breakfast test tray, and some thawed out frozen mango. I packed an orange for a snack when I leave, and I plan on swimming after leaving at about noon. I fell on the ice yesterday in front of work, so my hip was too sore last night to work out. I'll just swim a little longer today to make up for it, and I'll probably get on the elliptical tomorrow for a little extra exercise. I was disappointed to be up about two pounds this morning, but it's probably just water retention. Sometimes it doesn't seem to matter how healthy I eat, my body will gain some weight if it wants to!

Yesterday wasn't too bad! I stuck to the plan all days, but I'm not sure if the piece of dark Sweet Designs chocolate was vegan, but it was delicious for dessert at night!

Today I had oatmeal with some brown sugar and cranberries for breakfast with a soy milk and banana, an orange, wasa crackers with pb & j as well as fiber one cereal and soy milk for lunch, and tonight we're having tacos without sour cream or cheese. It's been a lot easier than I thought it would be, hopefully I can keep it up for 5 more days!

First day of vegan week!

I'm pretty excited to start my vegan week. I've packed fiber one cereal and plain soy milk for breakfast and I'll go to the cafeteria for some fresh fruit. I have dried prunes and apricots for a snack to get me through the day, and I'll get some veggies at lunch to go with a chocolate soy milk that I brought and minestrone soup in the cafeteria. We're having whole grain pasta with marinara sauce (I found one at Trader Joe's that has red peppers in it) and white beans for dinner. I'm really ready for this after the way I ate yesterday, my stomach's still upset from Beer Engine dinner and Cheesecake Factory cheesecake!

I didn't get any time yesterday to write anything down. We went to a wine dinner at the Grovewood Tavern in Euclid. It was delicious! I wish they would have told us a little more about the wine, but either way it was a good opportunity to try a bunch of different wines without having to buy a bottle of each.

This was a great weekend. The goal was to do as little as possible, and I think we achieved it. Today we went to dinner at mom and dad's and had coffee in the morning with Katy and Ryan. I did a little shopping in the afternoon, which was therapeutic to get out for a little while. I feel recharged to take on the week! We had delicious red velvet cake tonight with dinner, mmmmm.

Today we went to "Live Well Lakewood" to further our health goals. We saw a cooking class on how to make soup stock/broth out of vegetable or meat scraps. I'll have to check out a vegan restaurant that was at the health fair, it's down at public square. We ate really well today, even though we didn't exercise. It is good to have a break from exercise though! Time to relax tonight and take care of some paperwork and cleaning around the house.

New Blog!

I am planning on making a few changes in the coming year, and thought it would be helpful to have an outlet for sharing thoughts and gaining support.

The changes (goals) thus far: 
1) I will be vegan for 1 week straight
2) I will finish a half marathon in September.
3) I will not spend much time on the computer doing this, because it takes away from my time of doing productive things!