Hi everyone. Recently I’ve been thinking about the dietary choices I’ve been making over the years. The reason was the recent argument with my best friend over the tuna salad and the fact that I’d said I’d try to cook just vegan when preparing meals for myself. The thing is, I should’ve known it wasn’t going to work out. In that sense, she was right that I’d lied.
This signifies a common theme with my life choices: I full-on intend to follow a particular lifestyle, try it for a short while than abandon the entire thing and do whatever the heck I like. I try to avoid this pitfall this time. I’m already happy that I’m still making an effort to be aware of what I shove into my mouth and its impact on my health, animals and the environment. In that sense, it’s progress, not perfection and that’s totally okay with me. I will probably never be a vegan, after all.
The same happened when I was dieting to lose weight. I hated the strict food plan the dietitian gave me, tried it for a short time (even shorter than my vegan experiment) only to give up on it. Thankfully, I was able to negotiate a middle path with the dietitian and I’m doing the same with myself about eating plant-based. )For clarity’s sake: it wasn’t like my best friend was trying to convert me to veganism, so in this sense it’s only myself I have to be accountable to.) In other words, I’m not eating whatever the heck I fancy at any given moment, but I’m not pushing myself to stick to any diet or eating preference. That’s just going to backfire, after all.
Tomorrow, by the way, I’m cooking a vegan curry yet again. Not with chickpeas this time. I love trying out many different foods and learning about their impact. For this reason, I also actually like my best friend’s yapping about veganism.
This post was written for #FOWC with the prompt of “Dieting” and for #RDP with the prompt word of “Whatever”.
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so your best friend is vegan? We have a couple of friends who are vegan, and it is a wee bit difficult to have them over for dinner. I guess i am just slack, and it’s a bit too much for me. Bad me!:=)
sherry https://sherryspickings.blogspot.com/
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That makes total sense. Particularly when you cook using premade spice or sauce mixes, it’s difficult to figure out which are suitable for vegans. I honestly wish it were easier to cook 100% plant-based meals, but I do think I alone can’t make that happen. So when I’m with my best friend, I do buy and eat only vegan, but she’s the one responsible for reading the food labels. As a side note, if you like curries, BBC Good Food has an entire collection of vegan curries from which I draw inspiration.
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so surely the “win” here is not to follow a particular lifestyle, but to tread your own path? One that you feel comfortable with?
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True. Now I must say I can totally understand my best friend’s choice to go vegan, but it’s not a lifestyle I can (or want to, for now) follow 100%. My point was that I’m finding a balance between choosing a lifestyle to commit to forever (which isn’t working) on the one hand and doing whatever I want to on each given moment on the other.
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so, treading your own path?
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I stopped dieting years ago, can’t see the point
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Makes sense. It’s better to eat somewhat healthfully and mindfully for the rest of your life than to go on a diet only to abandon it once you’ve reached your target weight or whatever your goal was or even earlier.
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