Wednesday's Weigh-In

This is the first week of Veganstein and I'm feeling good. I've discovered that I need to do a little more cooking to keep up with the experiment- I can't just throw together a meat and cheese sandwich for lunch, I actually have to do a little more preparation. So, I'm thinking I'll be making lots of big pots of rice and beans over the next 87 days. My family has been busy this week, my husband has been going to work early and staying late, my 4 year-old has soccer practice two nights a week and preschool two days a week and, since we have only one car, I get to play taxi driver for them all, with my 16 month-old as my backseat companion. The busyness has just added to the challenge of this experiment, but so far it has been going well. I have been pushing myself a lot in my exercise routine and I've noticed that I'm feeling hungry a lot. Could it be I'm not getting enough of what my body needs? To satisfy my hunger I've been having snacks (or at least 1 a day, up to 2 if it's needed) and I find that by meal time I don't eat as much as I usually would, so I don't think my caloric intake is more than usual, it's just spread over more "meals" throughout the day. The meals we've had have been good, we tried a new recipe on Monday. I weighed myself this morning, the same time as last week, and I've lost 3 pounds. I now am 25 pounds away from my ideal weight, which is great. The healthiest I've felt in, I would guess, 6 years was just before I got pregnant with my second son and I'm 4 pounds away from that weight. Getting down to my ideal weight would get me back to the weight I was when I got married 10 years ago, the weight I was up until about a year before I got pregnant with our first son. I was thinner then, but I wouldn't say I was healthy. I didn't exercise much or watch what I ate, I was just young and had a good metabolism. I'm really finding that, although I'd love to smoke up the beach with my hot bod some day, I just want to be healthy. If I never reach my ideal weight, I think that will be okay, just as long as I am taking care of myself and feeling good about myself- if I do reach it, that will just be that much better. I haven't yet had a non-vegan meal (NVM) this week, and I haven't really figured out when I will, the food I've had so far has been good and satisfying, so that's a good thing. I know I have a long way to go with this experiment, but I am already feeling that this will be a positive experience for me and my family.