Is it day three already?

Yesterday was rough, but not as rough as the day before (Sunday). When I made my commitment I hadn’t thought about the Chicken Quesadilla and Cheesy Gordita Crunch from Taco Bell, the Turkey Tom from Jimmy John’s, and the chicken sandwiches I ate almost daily from the café at work. Factoring the loss of these dietary staples made me sweat a little :-\

Sunday afternoon I enlisted some friends to finish off the ground hamburger I purchased a few days earlier which was still fresh but now off limits. Instead I grilled myself a Grillers Prime veggie burger and a Spicy Black Bean burger (both Morning Star brand). I was a little ornery when my friends told me how much better my veggie burger was after breaking off samples at their requests. I didn’t believe them.

Yesterday was bad too. My appetite was all screwed up from some emotional stuff that happened Saturday and it didn’t exactly return full force. Breakfast was a half bowl of granola cereal and a banana. Lunch was a pasta/pizza buffet. Dinner was the best – soft shell tacos complete with fake ground beef (Morning Star brand purchased at Super Target). The tacos hit the spot. Still, I can’t help but feel an impending lack of variety on the horizon.

Today though… whoa! What a turnaround! My energy was through the roof! My appetite was slowly returning, and my mood was getting better as my nerves settled down. This time I choked down my first ever veggie sub from Jimmy John’s (I gagged part way through it – something about sliced tomatoes makes me sick to my stomach, despite my affinity for tomato sauce and salsa). For dinner, Omar came over and we made a spectacular veggie stir fry with peanut sauce, rice, tofu (which we severely destroyed), and savory garlic cheese bread. It was the first time in my entire life that I had baby corn and mushrooms. It was intimidating as all hell to eat a dish made up basically of all veggies, but it tasted fantastic and gave me quite the confidence boost.