Raw Vegan anyone??
Been learning lots of stuff... gods I'm so lame, I'd spend my life in a bloody library and/or bookstore if I could. Haha. Anyway, since I'm not doing school(of course I do this on my summer hols as well, so not that it matters...), I've been reading a ton of info/learning books. Most of them are on health, exercise and cooking. Or uncooking as this will be addressed as.
I've been a lacto-ovo-vegetarian since April of this year. Meaning, no poulty, red meat (haven't had red meat since I was about 14 years old mind you) or fish(except for once in the summer when I was a guest at someone's house and had to try fresh halibut and fresh salmon...all I can say is... no. eugh.). I'm lactose intolerant so I don't eat much in the way of dairy, no milk, yogurt or cheeses...although I admitedly do eat cheese sometimes, always in very small amounts and lactose-free if I can get it. Eggs I do eat. Anyway, been reading a lot about juice feasting and raw foodism or raw veganism in my case. It's really interesting and I think I'm going to give it a try. I love reading online blogs and watching youtube videos about ppl who are following a raw diet; some of the set-backs, advantages and recipes they've found are fascinating to hear about. I've also come across a raw vegan radio podcast thingy and that's pretty nifty. There are also many celebrities that promote the raw food diet, which in all honesty, isn't really a diet at all...well to me, it's more like a vegetarian diet... which is really just a way of eating/lifestyle. I certainly don't crave meat...so how being a vegetarian is a diet is a mystery to me. It just isn't.
However, I digress. I wish to sort of document in a way, how switching to raw veganism will change my life or not. I want to record how I feel about certain things, document recipes, websites, info, whatever! So yeah... I hope to sort of get back in the habit of writing here more often and make a pivitol lifechange with my eating habits and such. I'll also talk about what's going on right now.
At the moment, I'm still living in Calgary and currently unemployed. But I digress! I've been job-searching, dropping off resumes and going to interviews... nothing yet as far as getting an actual job, but I am working on it. I have an interview on Friday at Starbucks downtown on Kensington Ave. which is a super-trendy area downtown near the river and bridge... lovely paths nearby, trendy giftshops, bookstores, eateries, cafes, and other types of shops. It takes an hour to get down there so I'm really hoping to get a part-time position that starts later in the day. I've also sort of run into a job opportunity; a lady was walking behind me and a homeless person approached her. She didn't have anything to give him and she came up to me afterwards, laughing, "Darn, I was hoping he'd stop you!"
"Oh! Heh, likewise," I replied.
We started talking and it turned out we were going to the same building(she, to work and myself, to my naturopath appointment). Anyway, we continued talking and she mentioned she worked in the sports therapy centre in the building and that they were actually looking for receptionists and usually hire university students part-time, paying about $15/hr. AWESOME! Lol. I told her I was a starving-artist/writer, currently looking for employment and having done 2 yrs of university. So she gave me her card and told me to email her my resume! So I'm off to do that probably tomorrow... should've done it today but...oh well. So there's another possible part-time position.
Aside from the job stuffs, I've been doing my sitting in cafes thing and writing and drawing my little sketches and things... I'm hoping to find some art collective too... there were some in St. Kitts but I felt kind of intimidated being a student and all... now, I'm just intimidated by the fact that I haven't been doing any serious art lately... it's truly sad. BUT! I have been writing on and off. I love the cafes here and so I spend some time in them, whether it's just a Starbucks, Tim Hortons, Second Cup or Higher Ground(independent cafe in Kensington). I've also been going nuts with reading online... to all hours of the night...'honing' my skills, I say! And fulfilling the ever-present addiction to slash of course. ;)
As for recent 'dieting'...well I was doing weight watchers...kinda fell off the boat with that...grrr... writing stuff down constantly...I just don't want to think about it every second of every fucking day! You know?? So anyway...that sort of just...ended. Then I was eating crap, feeling lousy about myself, blah blah blah... However, going to the naturopath really helps.... as well as seeing my therapist every couple of weeks. So I'm feeling quite a bit better, and have been slightly more active. Also, I was doing an herbal cleanse for 12 days...brutal, but it did help a bit...I feel like my tastebuds are a little stronger. I have no idea of the weight loss efforts with regards to that, but I do know that I'm feeling better. I'm going with how my clothes feel and well, it's been too bloody cold lately to wear any of my summer clothes and I'm still not hugely fond of tight fitting clothes. So I still lounge around in my yoga pants, pj's, t-shirts and hoodies. *shrug* I'm too lazy to care, really. But the important thing is I'm feeling better, happier, more energetic... and am slowly incorporating more raw food into my diet and experimenting with more recipes. I'm going to be documenting it more of course now and making more of an effort to do this journey. It may cost more to buy organic raw foods, but I think it's definitely worth it if it makes you look and feel better and be overall, healthier. And that's that. Now all I have to do is find all my favourite sweets in the raw! Lucky there's a Community Natural Foods store in the city and some organics (that I've got to browse through more thoroughly) in the local Superstore around the corner.
So plan:
- make list of delicious looking recipes(gathered from internet and books)
- make grocery list of ingredients
- head to Superstore and/or Community Natural Foods with $$$
- begin making the food!
- take notes, daily feelings, physical changes, etc. (nervous to do this because I don't want to weigh myself!!!)
- continue to research about other interest- food combinations... and perhaps incorporate it?
- buy new clothes upon weight loss, feeling better, potential new jobs, etc.
- keep LJers updated!!!
Okay, shutting up now. Hope everyone's well, have to check friends' journals as not having done so in such a long time has put me into a sort of reclusive state/position... le sigh.
I've been a lacto-ovo-vegetarian since April of this year. Meaning, no poulty, red meat (haven't had red meat since I was about 14 years old mind you) or fish(except for once in the summer when I was a guest at someone's house and had to try fresh halibut and fresh salmon...all I can say is... no. eugh.). I'm lactose intolerant so I don't eat much in the way of dairy, no milk, yogurt or cheeses...although I admitedly do eat cheese sometimes, always in very small amounts and lactose-free if I can get it. Eggs I do eat. Anyway, been reading a lot about juice feasting and raw foodism or raw veganism in my case. It's really interesting and I think I'm going to give it a try. I love reading online blogs and watching youtube videos about ppl who are following a raw diet; some of the set-backs, advantages and recipes they've found are fascinating to hear about. I've also come across a raw vegan radio podcast thingy and that's pretty nifty. There are also many celebrities that promote the raw food diet, which in all honesty, isn't really a diet at all...well to me, it's more like a vegetarian diet... which is really just a way of eating/lifestyle. I certainly don't crave meat...so how being a vegetarian is a diet is a mystery to me. It just isn't.
However, I digress. I wish to sort of document in a way, how switching to raw veganism will change my life or not. I want to record how I feel about certain things, document recipes, websites, info, whatever! So yeah... I hope to sort of get back in the habit of writing here more often and make a pivitol lifechange with my eating habits and such. I'll also talk about what's going on right now.
At the moment, I'm still living in Calgary and currently unemployed. But I digress! I've been job-searching, dropping off resumes and going to interviews... nothing yet as far as getting an actual job, but I am working on it. I have an interview on Friday at Starbucks downtown on Kensington Ave. which is a super-trendy area downtown near the river and bridge... lovely paths nearby, trendy giftshops, bookstores, eateries, cafes, and other types of shops. It takes an hour to get down there so I'm really hoping to get a part-time position that starts later in the day. I've also sort of run into a job opportunity; a lady was walking behind me and a homeless person approached her. She didn't have anything to give him and she came up to me afterwards, laughing, "Darn, I was hoping he'd stop you!"
"Oh! Heh, likewise," I replied.
We started talking and it turned out we were going to the same building(she, to work and myself, to my naturopath appointment). Anyway, we continued talking and she mentioned she worked in the sports therapy centre in the building and that they were actually looking for receptionists and usually hire university students part-time, paying about $15/hr. AWESOME! Lol. I told her I was a starving-artist/writer, currently looking for employment and having done 2 yrs of university. So she gave me her card and told me to email her my resume! So I'm off to do that probably tomorrow... should've done it today but...oh well. So there's another possible part-time position.
Aside from the job stuffs, I've been doing my sitting in cafes thing and writing and drawing my little sketches and things... I'm hoping to find some art collective too... there were some in St. Kitts but I felt kind of intimidated being a student and all... now, I'm just intimidated by the fact that I haven't been doing any serious art lately... it's truly sad. BUT! I have been writing on and off. I love the cafes here and so I spend some time in them, whether it's just a Starbucks, Tim Hortons, Second Cup or Higher Ground(independent cafe in Kensington). I've also been going nuts with reading online... to all hours of the night...'honing' my skills, I say! And fulfilling the ever-present addiction to slash of course. ;)
As for recent 'dieting'...well I was doing weight watchers...kinda fell off the boat with that...grrr... writing stuff down constantly...I just don't want to think about it every second of every fucking day! You know?? So anyway...that sort of just...ended. Then I was eating crap, feeling lousy about myself, blah blah blah... However, going to the naturopath really helps.... as well as seeing my therapist every couple of weeks. So I'm feeling quite a bit better, and have been slightly more active. Also, I was doing an herbal cleanse for 12 days...brutal, but it did help a bit...I feel like my tastebuds are a little stronger. I have no idea of the weight loss efforts with regards to that, but I do know that I'm feeling better. I'm going with how my clothes feel and well, it's been too bloody cold lately to wear any of my summer clothes and I'm still not hugely fond of tight fitting clothes. So I still lounge around in my yoga pants, pj's, t-shirts and hoodies. *shrug* I'm too lazy to care, really. But the important thing is I'm feeling better, happier, more energetic... and am slowly incorporating more raw food into my diet and experimenting with more recipes. I'm going to be documenting it more of course now and making more of an effort to do this journey. It may cost more to buy organic raw foods, but I think it's definitely worth it if it makes you look and feel better and be overall, healthier. And that's that. Now all I have to do is find all my favourite sweets in the raw! Lucky there's a Community Natural Foods store in the city and some organics (that I've got to browse through more thoroughly) in the local Superstore around the corner.
So plan:
- make list of delicious looking recipes(gathered from internet and books)
- make grocery list of ingredients
- head to Superstore and/or Community Natural Foods with $$$
- begin making the food!
- take notes, daily feelings, physical changes, etc. (nervous to do this because I don't want to weigh myself!!!)
- continue to research about other interest- food combinations... and perhaps incorporate it?
- buy new clothes upon weight loss, feeling better, potential new jobs, etc.
- keep LJers updated!!!
Okay, shutting up now. Hope everyone's well, have to check friends' journals as not having done so in such a long time has put me into a sort of reclusive state/position... le sigh.
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