Life = Fail, Diet = Epic Fail

So... eating well did not end well. I'm trying again, but I think I need to be more focused and gradual with my food substitutions. To start with, I am going to phase into a dairy-free diet. Ok, except for cheese. I don't eat it very often, and there really is no good substitute for it yet. Cutting dairy out at home is a lot easier than trying to cut out meat, all animal products, or eat raw foods consistently. Especially since I have a sneaking suspicion I'm becoming lactose intolerant. At the very least, I have some sort of milk allergy. The easy substitute is to move to soy. Soy milk, soy yogurt, etc, but soy is very mucous forming and is not all that healthy when it is overly processed. Plus, Chris is allergic to it.

So far, I have milk substitutes, yogurt substitutes, and ice cream substitutes. I guess this will mean butter and sour cream eventually... hmm. I'll have to work on that.

Rice Dream Vanilla Milk is good with cereal.

So Delicious Cultured Coconut Milk Yogurt is okay... I ate the whole cup, but I did have to mix it with dry healthy cereal. I'm not a huge yogurt fan.

Rice Dream ice cream is okay, too, but you do have to let it warm up a bit to be creamy.

So Delicious Coconut Milk Chocolate Ice Cream is fantastic. Unlike the yogurt, it does have a slight coconut taste, but I like coconut so whatever.

Awesome recipe: So Delicious Coconut Milk Chocolate Ice Cream, Silk Chocolate Soy Milk, and a frozen banana (chopped) makes an awesome dairy-free chocolate shake. Go me!

Trial and Error.

So, quick update. I was doing great with eating healthier, great with eating less, and not so great with spending less money on food. After buying a fancy new scale, I was discouraged and fell off the wagon a little bit. I've started looking at the Raw Food Detox Diet by Natalia Rose and I'm trying some of the principles/recipes.

Romaine Leaf with Raw Almond Butter and Raw Honey? Surprisingly awesome.

Raw Dijon Salad Dressing? Epic fail.

More to come.

Happy New Year!

So, like everyone else, I've made a ton of resolutions for the new year. Some are necessary, some are unlikely, and some of them have been planned for months. All of them are almost certainly doomed, just like everyone else. I don't have time to list them all right now, but I did tell Chris about them. In hindsight, I shouldn't have, because now he's going to force me to follow through.

He can be scary, you know. The sweaters give him magical wizard powers. Or maybe that's just his stove...

One of the resolutions, like everyone else, is to lose weight. But I'm more interested in eating less, eating better, eating at home, and paying less money for food. In theory, it's totally necessary and totally plausible. In real life, however, I have a box of Pepperidge Farms cookies with my name on it. Really. It's sitting on my dining room table. Mocking me with it's deliciousness.

Instead of eating the leftover snacks from last night, I measured out a bowl of wheat cereal, a half cup of soy milk, and half a banana. Not only that, but I wrote down all of the nutritional information and added up the totals. I even cleaned out the bowl, dried it, put it away, put the food away, and threw the trash away. That doesn't sound very impressive, but my mom will tell you that it's almost impossible for someone as awesome as myself.

Progress? Maybe.