I thought it would be fun to make a new category on this blog, which gives the readers an insight into my life. The category ‘diet week’ does not contain the aim to lose weight, but to discover new ways of eating and personaly for me, to get back the joy of eating which was destroyed by my eating disorder.

I felt very uncomfortable in my body, so I decided to make a start from point zero. To achieve this effect, I fasted for four days, which means that I only fed myself liquids, such as tea or juices. I cheated the last day by eating some spoons of rice, but nevertheless, I got the effect I wanted – a healthy curiosity about what the world of food might offer.

There are a lot of people complaining about vegans and their way of life just because they ‘Can’t imagine living this way.’ I think this is the wrong way to deal with people on a diet and it is not impossible at all to live the vegan lifestyle. So for a whole week, I kept the rules and actually liked it. There are so many substitutions for eggs and dairy products that it is not difficult to change e.g. youghurt for soy yoghurt. The only thing I missed a little was cheese and milk chocolate, but it was bearable. It was really easy to prepare all the meals like soy scallop or falafel.

Since I do not like the taste of Tofu, I did not have it in my nutrition. Wanna know, what I ate the whole week? Here is the list.

Day 1:

soy yoghurt blackberry
honeydew
noodles with tomato zucchini sauce
apple
apple pie cookies
bread
salad

Day 2:

apple
cornflakes
soy rice pudding
melon
cookies
sandwich with vegetable burger
couscous salad

Day 3:

soy rice pudding
pineapple
soy cocoa
baked sweet potatoes
baguette
apple

Day 4:

oatmeal with soy milk
oatmeal cookies
orange
apple
chili con seitan

Day 5:

chocolate flakes
soy scallop
soy yoghurt raspberry
apple
oreos
bread
baked peppers

Day 6:

apple
orange
oreos
bread
pumpkin soup with coconut milk
grilled zucchini
falafel
hazelnuts

Day 7:

apple
bread
soy cocoa
almonds
semi-sweet chocolate

The evening of the 7th day I quit the vegan diet by eating some ‘milinki’, a Bulgarian bread-like food containing milk. I think I will consume some vegan products more often from now, e.g. the soy cocoa which was really yummy. Hope you liked this post and look forward to seeing more diet weeks.