Going vegan, advice?

Vegans can't eat pasta, right? To make the noodles, you'd need an egg, or two, so eggs would make pasta on the bad list.

 

Not vegan in any way, but to address the "How'm I gonna get through this" concern:

I'm currently doing a 3-week Carb Detox program for a project I'm working on. Lowest carbs possible, pretty much only fish/poultry and greens. Designed for elite athletes, but anyone can do it for weight loss, performance, overall health. The physical symptoms of sugar withdrawal are interesting, but the mental component of fighting cravings and breaking habits is more challenging.

Advice: Don't overthink it. You can get through a week of anything, it's just food. You're not making a lifestyle change, you're doing this for a specific end result, to see what it's like so you can accurately write about it. Prepare a plan for what you're going to eat and when, so you're not blindsided by lack of food options. Keep snacks with you for when you get a craving for something on the NO list, so you're not tempted to cheat. Take great notes on what you ate and how you felt, because you're going to forget later.

And then be grateful you're not giving up all your carbs!

 

I think it's an interesting assignment.
I've known people who try to become vegan or vegatarian but end up eating a lot more junk food. Might be interesting to do a week of each - healthy and unhealthy approaches ti veganism.

On principle, if I was going to follow a vegan diet for a week I would dress in leather, head to toe, every day.

 

Fish is the middle ground.

In fact, that should be the new tagline for the seafood industry.

 

Just make sure you write the story from a "I'm better than you" point of view or it won't be accurate.

 

I am now officially vegan.

For the next seven days anyway.

And Tony I definitely will write it from that view point

Thank you all for your suggestions and tips, some definitely useful tips in there. I am going to go all out on it -- I'm not going to sit and eat PBJ sandwiches all week. This means tofu at least a couple of times and no leather jacket, shoes, etc. Two big issues I'm hitting right now is my wallet, though I have got to have a canvas one around here somewhere, besides they're easy enough to find. The other is a belt. Just finding a standard leather one in my size is tough around here not holding my breath on a non-leather one. Maybe I go the always classy suspenders route.

Toying with the idea of a diary/blog for the week. Would be pretty simple to do, would also supplement the story and make it easier when it comes to writing it.

 

I actually went on a paleo diet for about two years and want to get back on it. I know it is not the same as giving up all my carbs -- there are carbs in a lot of things that you don't think would have them, you just have to be very selective in what kind of carbs your getting when you do eat them, but I strangely didn't miss them that much. Bread was easy for me to walk away from, the hardest was pasta. I love pasta, but went almost two years without any. This also meant no pop -- which was surprisingly easy to give up -- or sugar, etc. My one cheat was every couple of weeks I would have a pint, sometimes two. That was it.

I was very successful with the diet, lost almost 100 pounds.

Good luck with your detox, Swenk.

 

Wallet? Don't you have pockets?