That's it!!! Going Public!!

Pange33

I can be a pretty strong willed person when I want to be. Anyone who's embarking on the same journey as me can definitely understand where I'm coming from. I've been trying so hard at this for over a year. We're talking about weight loss here, right?

WRONG!! I'm talking about going and STAYING vegan! I've pretty easily given up meat (I can count on one hand how many times I caved to darn chicken fingers in the first year.). I didn't go from vegetarian to vegan. I went cold turkey...huh...kinda funny expression in this situation. I went live, breathing, warm turkey!! Nah, that doesn't even sound funny. Anyway, I've caved to ice cream, and darn you greasy, gooey, melt in your mouth PIZZA!!! How I miss thee so much. But it has been months since I caved to you. So what's my recent defeat? I almost wish it was pizza, but NO! It was the wide open bag of my roomie's peanut M&M's smiling at me. "She's gone ALL weekend, I could replace those before she's back." "She can't tell me I'm vegan." "Is there really that much milk in those?" "I didn't buy the M&M's myself, whats the harm?" To any actual Vegans out there: I failed. I partook of the darned peanut M&Ms. I partook of them all. They were freaking delicious. But it's time for me to be accountable. It's time for my "Vegan" diary to go public. I didn't even have the decency of adding the M&Ms directly to my diary. I simply quick added calories. I am sorry, friends.

My diary is officialy public, so Vegans, feel free to judge me, and make me accountable to live up to who I'm claiming to be.

Is anyone else still struggling after a year of "going vegan?"

Trishkit

*sigh*

How can I judge you when it happens to me sometimes, too? My husband bought Girl Scout cookies from his coworker's daughter. Most are in the freezer, but there's one box in the cupboard. I track them whenever I have one, but I feel bad! The stupid thing is, I'm pretty sure the ONLY thing making some of them not vegan is the stinkin' whey! What do you need it for?

Anyway. Yes. While we're confessing, I had a Keebler's E.L. Fudge (or whatever they're called) cookie, the other night.

Okay, I had three...

Pange33

It is SOOOOO irritating how often whey plays in!! And where I live, in VERY rural New Hampshire, there is NO chocolate!!! There is, but my only choices are Baker's and Lindt 70% or higher (and technically they're made w/ the kind of sugar not appropriate for vegans, and I like them, they're just not oooh melt in my mouth). Oh but if you go to most vegan "tip" sites, like a sunny, perfect California based magazine (you know who you are) they say, "most dark chocolate is vegan" LIARS! Maybe living in Cali it is! I read every single package very carefully. Why can't manufacturers just leave the milk for MILK CHOCOLATE, and keep it out of the dark chocolate? Better yet, they could use alternatives. Do non-vegan people have any idea how GOOD vegan dark chocolate is (by companies who carefully and purposely use alternatives beacause they too value chocolate's delicious potential)?? If only manufacturers would make it more available everywhere. The general population wouldn't even realize that they eating something ---ooh scary---VEGAN!

Pange33

I have also discovered, if you absolutely MUST indulge in some super over-processed snack, that Nabisco doesn't just accidentally make regular Oreos vegan, ALOT of Nabisco products are accidentally vegan. I think it's due to the general "flour base" of ingredients they use often between Teddy Grahams, Oreo cookies, Nutter Butter wafers I even saw that Lorna Doones didn't have a bold "contains: Milk" which is shocking to me because I thought all things shortbread (to any non-vegan conscious person) contained milk. So Next time you're longing for a processed sugar release, and you must browse the snack aisle, you may be surprised by the overall Nabisco brand- PLEASE JUST READ ALL LABELS, and don't take just my word for it