90 Day Vegan Challenge

It's been a few months since I posted anything, including anything on YouTube. I had a feeling that would occur. I literally have videos sitting on my desktop unedited with full blogs ready to go. Well these things happen.  However, I have a new motivation which would allow me to utilize this blog post more often (and maybe even inspire others- or just keep me focused).

As most of you know I'm a vegetarian. I've been a vegetarian for almost 22 years. Over the years though I've become more interested in becoming vegan, however I've lived abroad in countries that weren't always vegetarian friendly (let alone vegan friendly). That didn't mean they didn't accept what I was (most Buddhist are vegetarians/vegans in this part of the world). What I meant was finding and supplying myself with "vegan supplies" in general would be hard to come by. Keeping it vegetarian, in my mind, was easiest. I also repeated become/becoming and supplying/supplies... hate that!!!

Well, something changed. I've been watching on YouTube a Japanese vegan chef named Ryoya:  Peaceful Cuisine ☆ Ryoya. His videos are both very easy to follow and surprisingly beautiful. Japan is one of those countries where seafood is everywhere, even in it's noodles. I had to make sure I knew how to say I was vegetarian when I went out to eat and keep an eye out for vegetarian options. From it's appearance I thought I'd really be working hard to maintain just a vegetarian diet. However, Ryoya has been vegan for seven years and has even stated he finds that Japan is an easy place to be vegan. Well, mind explosion. If it can be done in Japan, it can be done here in Malaysia.

In Malaysia there's a lot of distractions (cakes, lattes, food of sugary-ness). Losing weight here is a pain in the (_|_). Ryoya had a small two/ three part episode called 90 Days Vegetarian Diet Challenge (though it was really vegan). The man in the video ended up losing a lot of weight and felt pretty healthy on this diet. I began to think that I could attempt a 90 Day Vegan Challenge (my own version maybe) and see where it could lead.

So, after some planning and help from my sweety (thanks for the vegan book downloads)! The 90 Day Vegan Challenge begins tomorrow (Monday the 15th). I will completely eliminate dairy and eggs from my already vegetarian diet and go full vegan or Super Saiyan (whatever comes first). During this process I will take pictures of the food I eat during and keep a log on the amount of exercise I do.  So, in essence I'm still keeping this a food blog, but also like a diet tracker (just not an annoying one). I will post weekly my thoughts during the week and maybe a few recipes. Dang!!! Week/weekly! Stop this!

I do hope this is a successful challenge for myself. There's a lot to vegan-ism (it's not just a diet) that I hope to learn about and be successful with. I hate using the same word twice after I've already used it... successful........ stop!