#veggie project

Day 19: Do you think anyone could be a vegetarian?

I think that the vegetarian diet is more accessible and culturally accepted than ever before. However, there is definitely a privilege involved. There is a huge problem with low income neighborhoods and food desserts. For those individuals, finding fresh produce is difficult enough let alone protein alternatives to ensure adequate and diverse nutrition needs.

What’s Going Veggie Project? Going Veggie Project Is a project run by vegetarians / vegans to help everyone get on the path  to becoming vegans, vegetarians, pescetarians, etc. Our blog helps people by providing support and motivation as well as a strong base of facts and information about “going veg.” 

What’s the challenge? Every month we encourage people to transition into vegan / vegetarian / etc - whatever diet is more “veg” than the one you eat now! For example, if you’re an aspiring vegetarian who wants to start out slow and steady, you could try a pescetarian diet, which means you’d eliminate red meats and poultry while still eating eggs, dairy, and seafood. Or if you’re a vegetarian who wants to step it up, try veganism! And if you’re a vegan, maybe you could become a super-vegan by posting tips and recipes on your own blog :)

How do I sign up? Submit an ask or fan mail with the following

Your name

The type of diet you want to try

The url you’d like us to post (we make a giant post of all our challengers)

Your email/contact info if you would like someone to mentor you :) 

We would love for as many of you to sign up as possible! This is a great way to challenge yourself, even if you do not do it for the entire month! Please let us know if you want to join and let us know if you need any help! Check out our links for recipes and tips as well. :)

Come sign up! If you have more questions, check out the monthly challenge page on our blog. 

Just finished Day 6 of Yoga with Adriene's #30DayYogaChallenge and after doing core workouts at the gym on Friday, it was really difficult and I took a lot of breaks. But, I'm happy I did it at all and I'm feeling grateful :) I already feel some improvement with my yoga practice after almost a week, being able to hold poses stronger and straighter and being able to get deeper in my twists (twists are my favorite.)

We went to dinner with Dakota's family at Olive Garden tonight and I tried something new! The portobello ravioli (with the minestrone soup) and it was delicious. I actually finished the whole meal (I never finish the whole meal because its usually so heavy). Although, next time I think I'll request the regular marinara sauce instead of the standard cream sauce...

For the month of January, I took on goingveggieproject challenge to go Vegetarian for the whole month (no flesh, but still consuming dairy and eggs) as a step towards living a more compassionate, lighter, veggie filled life.

It has been one week and I haven't really posted an update yet.

So far, it has been surprisingly and relatively easy to accomplish. Most if not all restaurants have at least some version of a black bean or Boca burger patty substitute that makes it easy. Personally, I hate salads. I really do. For as much as I love leafy greens and veggies all around I really avoid eating just salads as a meal (as a side, its great). So I was nervous going into January that I would need to live on salads and live hungry for a month. Luckily, I've been able to avoid that.

When we went to buffalo wild wings, sure my mouth watered when the server brought D and M's wings and me y black bean burger but I was happier at the end of the meal and I got to eat with some of my best friends while being compassionate and feeling lighter when I finished.