Week 1

Hi Everyone!

So after a week of many questions to my bestie Marissa an doing some research. Even read a couple of books also join the 30 day Vegan Challenge by Collen Patrick-Goudreau. So after looking at everything.. I am still moving on with my plant based new lifestyle. At this time I am only subtacting meat from my diet maybe in the future it maybe be different. Justin has also decided that he will have mostly a plant based diet and cutting out all the junk food and not drinking as much pop but he said that he won't totally cut out meat he will just have it occaionlly. I support his decision and told him that I will still cook him so meat when he wants it.

On other news we went grocery shopping for the first time buying all healthy and organic food it was very interesting I had looked at all the different vegetables out there that I never knew existed. But I was also getting very stress and overwhelmed at how exteremly expensive healthy food is!! But we have picked out a couple new receipes for the week. I will keep you updated next week on how we did.

Today December 1st is the fist day with no meat. I think I am doing pretty well so far of course its only been 1 day. But for the first day I made Mushroom Stroganoff the receipe was in the Forks over Knives cookbook. I thought it was good and Justin thought it was kinda blah. I probably will be trying other kinds of Stroganoff until I can find one we both like.

Over the past week we had a lot of "last" stuff. I had my last meat Holiday which I didn't even eat a lot of turkey so it wasn't that bad. I had my last pepperoni pizza Justin and I eat pizza every Wedsenday it was a tradition that we started many years ago. Probably why I haven't lost as much weight. But I LOVE pizza. Good thing I had bought a new cookbook from Weight Watchers this week called Veg Power that had a great looking pizza in there I can't wait to try this Wedsenday.

This was my "last" meat pizza.. I even got wings but they smelled really funny so I didn't eat them.


I have been in Weight Watchers since March 2013 and have only lost 20 lbs. I know that is a big accomplishment but for the last few months I have been stuck :( I have gain and lost a lot but I have been unable to move past the 20 lb mark. This week I weighed in ( I usually weigh in on Saturdays) I managed to lose 1.8 lbs. brings my total to 19.6 so I am hoping with my new lifestyle I will lose more. I am also probably going to be cancelling my membership with them also due to the cost of it I am broke so the money for that could pay for all the spendy food :)

This pic is very recent it was taken in Oct. So as of today I weight 212.6. I really want to lose this weight I am not happy with the way I look. If I keep going with my ways I will be like my father and other members of my family who are diabetics and I don't want that to happen. I am happy to be making this change now in my life. I will keep you all posted with all the new changes. I thank you all for the support and I am so thankful to have my best friend Marissa to help me with everything.