It is taught at a yoga school so everyone there was female except for the instructor and one other guy. Wow... I am so out of shape. While my previous tests of cholesterol and blood sugar came back just fine, my endurance and physical fitness was so not fine. After about 3 minutes of warm up I was out of breath. This is a 1 hour class. Damn. I used to participate in Judo, I used to run just for fun, I used to swim and be active. This was just sad. Also I turn very pale and it horrifies people around me, so I had to convince the instructor that it was ok and normal even though I did feel fainty. Being already pretty pasty and then turning even whiter I guess is alarming to people.
So after some more very energetic exercises involving a kettlebell, lots of motion and a hint of yoga we were done. I hobbled home. I have never felt that many muscles in that much pain. But wow, I felt good, I didn't pass out and I rewarded myself with a vegan burger and vegan cheesecake. Both which didn't suck. Especially the cheesecake - it didn't taste like mashed up tofu with sugar - it was ... creamy. I added more fresh blueberries and it was divine.
Boyfriend came back later that evening from a conference and we decided to grab a quick drink. I guess this is how vegan might be difficult - he expressed no interest what so ever in that, which I knew previously. What I was just hoping that we could have our own food eccentricities separately and without conflict. We were able to share fries and nachos, where he suggested we get cheese on the side, so that I won't have to put up with scraping it off. Genius!
Luckily beer and Jack Daniels are vegan as far as I know so it was a good evening!
Sunday presented a different challenge - while the tastiest baguette known to man were semi-confirmed made without dairy, the tasty tamales at Pilsen Farm Market weren't. They do sometimes carry the ones with fake meat but the ones they had left were beans and cheese or eggplant and cheese. Sigh. I had to shovel my baguette into my mouth and sigh. Boyfriend did get chicken and mole ones and I was definitely jealous. Sigh. Might have to get there early to make sure to get the vegan variety.
Our Sunday lunch was basically me getting pad Thai without egg enjoying that. I am basically assuming that it's made in the same pan where all their meat dishes come from... but I really don't want to be THAT person. Even though I am not grossed out by meat really, not eating it intentionally has created a kind of "ick" factor about my meat-free food touching meat-full food, almost unconsciously. But in the ethical sense, I didn't add to the demand for meat dishes at the local Thai place and that's the ethical gain I was personally going for.
Didn't know I would make it this far. Only one screw up with pizza but everything I have been eating has been animal free. Honey is not an issue since I hate it and have no taste for it. Sugar is something I want to actually look into later but I don't have a sweet tooth anyways. I will be focusing on cooking more. But other than that - I am pretty happy with how my week turned out. I feel pretty good, not too tired and don't think I'm lacking in too much nutrition. Getting a blood test next week just to make sure. I mean it wouldn't be an experiment without all kinds of data, now would it ?
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