tomorrow, February first, will mark the beginning of my vegan diet. the diet has been planned several weeks ago but has been delayed until my supply of yogurt has been eliminated, which the last of will be enjoyed and ingested tonight. the vegan diet is planned to last for the entire month of February. i have a strong attachment to milk products, so i am not sure i will want to continue the diet after that period of time. the only way to know how attached i really am to milk and milk products would be to go without them for a month, i suppose.
current vegetarian diet update for end of January:
1. removing msg as a spice for my daily tofu meal has resulted in me feeling full after eating the same amount of food. mental clarity is no longer compromised either. excellent! (please refer to this blog entry for history and details of this subject - monosodium glutamate.)
2. my last drink of alcohol was December 23 and i have not desired it since (this blog entry was written while drinking that last glass of wine). now over one month dry, this is the longest stretch in the past ten years in which i have not consumed an alcoholic beverage. i was once a daily drinker.
3. two servings of fish were consumed at the beginning of this month of January. i crave fatty, oily meats every few days. yesterday i purchased some fatty macadamia nuts to help curb my fat craving.
4. my sex drive has decreased. i presume this is somehow a side effect of vegetarianism. it is possible a lack of zinc, due to a lack of ingesting meat is to blame for my drop in libido.
5. although i generally feel in a better mood each day, the degree of mood change is so subtle that i am not sure if it has anything to do with my dietary changes, although, it is possible.
please refer to this blog entry as to why i am embarking on these changes in the first place.
my vegan diet will consist of some foods manufactured on equipment and at facilities that also manufacture products containing milk. therefore, some foods that are vegan cannot be guarantied to be such. i will not focus on such trivial details so to not detract from the overall goal and purpose of this exercise which is to abstain from consuming obvious animal products and byproducts. (it is possible that many vitamins and chemicals i will be consuming over the course of this vegan diet, such as caffeine and B complex may be artificially synthesized or produced by bacteria and yeast opposed to being derived or obtained only from plants. such vitamins obtained in this manor can not technically be considered vegan from my understanding of the definition of veganism, but i must remind myself to focus on the larger picture of this dietary challenge.)
the purpose of adopting this vegan diet to facilitate my development and growth of a higher state of consciousness along with increased mental and physical health through externalizing these internal goals by the use of a vegan diet. by improving my personal environment, along with the food which exists outside my body, i wish to similarly improve my reality within me. the ultimate goal is having the concept of a separation of an internal/external reality (in this case, body/food) dissolving into one total subjective reality, and thus, a higher state of awareness.
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