Eating

Ok I will start with eating because it really is the lesser of three evils for me.

I am a vegan.  I went vegan after my younger brother read a book about animals and said 'hey, lets go vegan' and so I did...he did not.

I felt lighter and so have stuck with it.  It's been possibly 3 years now.  Maybe 2 I don't remember.

I like being a vegan...I like looking at animals in a different way and not feeling guilty. I like eating nuts.  I like the fact that cheese smells like sick now and there is NO WAY I would ever touch it again.  I like that I don't get spots on my face in the same way as I don't drink milk.

I'm not the greatest vegan and I'm certainly not someone who thinks everyone should be.....far from it.   Sometimes I eat cakes that my friends makes and I know they have eggs in. I do also 'fall off the wagon' and eat some meat at Christmas.....I ate ALL the crackling off the left over pork last year.....I had a little 'taste' and then just kept going back for more...it tasted soooooo good. But generally speaking, I don't eat meat and I don't eat dairy or eggs.....maybe that makes me a strict vegetarian...I don't know, I'm not really one for labels.

I don't consume any caffeine, makes me feel awful and shaky and not very good at all......

I don't drink alcohol.  I gave that up about 4 years ago.  My younger brother (same one!) was ill and couldn't drink and so I decided to give up in support of him.  I thought I would try a year just to see if I could...I did and then once I'd done a year I couldn't really see a reason to going back. He did not.

So, why is my blog called eating well if I already eat well???

My big downfalls are cake, bread and sugar.  Actually maybe I can limit that more to wheat and sugar.

They're the evils of this world.

I want to completely eliminate them both from my diet.  I can manage to do it for a while and then something happens and they creep back in again.  Bread is cheap and sugar makes me feel better.  Put wheat and sugar together and by gum you have a cake and that to me is JUST PURE HEAVEN.

They are the reason why I am writing this blog

WHEAT and SUGAR.

I am determined to cut them out forever...it's going to be a little like giving up alcohol...I tried and failed that many many times and then one day it was just 'boom' and I never drank again.