Break from work = profound thought (just in case it is not perfectly clear):
I have been flirting with a low-fat vegan diet since summer (80-10-10). I refuse to think I consistently fail. It’s more like adapting–to hunger and circumstance.
Cooking for meat-eaters is problematic, as is the insatiable craving for Havarti and / or my homemade whole grain bread that occasionally consumes me.
So I have decided to create a new label instead of whine about my failures. It is synonymous with the word “self-denial.” (Or maybe “in denial.”)
By the title, I take it you’re an “I Love Lucy” fan 😀
Not sure about the connection, but I do love the old Lucy shows, but even more do I love my granddaughter Lucy. 🙂
I was making reference to the “Vitameta…” as in “vitametavegaman” Yes, you’re grandbaby is precious 😀
I think I remember something like that. 🙂
It sounds a bit like my Mediterranean diet.
Minus the olive oil.
I wholly agree. My daughter just sent me lists of foods to boycott because of GMOs – not much left. 😦
GMO tampering makes me angry.
me too. As if we needed any help being sick!
Really!
Even veggies aren’t all safe!
Yup! I eat avoiding the dirty dozen, and only eat off the clean 15 list if I can’t afford organic there, too. What a world.
Well, you’re a better woman than I–though I’ve learned a couple vegetarian recipes from my English friend, and they are GOOD–I was totally surprised!
I could live this way if I didn’t have other things in my house when I crave something fat. But I am not just cooking (or non-cooking :-)) for me.
Now, it’s the opposite for me: if I had someone I had to cook nutritiously for, I’d be in business. But it’s just me–so if I want nachos, chips, cereal….ice cream, etc–well, it’s all over!
Oh, oh. 🙂
Pathetic, I know!
I like your new multi faceted categories as long as I can eat chocolate too! Sigh. 🙂 Havarti and chocolate – a dream come true.
Dark and organic. 🙂
We just need to feel good and have good numbers at the doctors so eat for health and SMILES!
I’m smiling!
🙂
Has this diet helped you? I’ve just cut back on what I eat and have dropped a few pounds, but it’s slow going. I can probably guess some of the dirty dozen- corn, soy, maybe apples (due to heavy pesticide use), but what are the clean 15? When my husband picks up groceries, he almost automatically gets organic apples, bananas, lettuce.
When I have stuck with it, I lose weight fairly quickly. It is hard with my schedule and with cooking for others, but I’m trying on most days to at least be low-fat raw vegan till supper. Some days, I can do it all day; other days, like today, I only made it to lunch and had to have peanut butter and jam on ww bread with coffee!!! But I figure any move in a healthier direction is always good. I am very impressed with what I have seen and heard about 80-10-10 but still not totally convinced that I want to do it fulltime. Right now I am treating it more as a healing method. I’m not sure I can totally give up all cooked food. http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/summary.php
The clean 15 are included in the link. If folks can only afford to by org with one thing, I tell them to make it potatoes, since they have the heaviest chemical load–pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, and the junk they put on to keep them from sprouting on market displays! Yuck!