Day 1

My friend SP and I were having cafecito during our bruja hour and she mentioned a food critic stops having meat and alcohol for 30 days after nye. He does this to reset his palette. We figured we can reset our palette and also lose some weight in the process.

I did some vegetarian research last night. I didn't know there were so many variations of vegetarianism. Octo, Lacto, Fruit, Demi. There's tons of ways to justify your diet. No eggs, cheese, no red meat but I eat chicken. I hit up my good friend sister who is a lifelong vegetarian for some tips and recipes. She also asked what kind of vegetarian I would be. I decided that I'm going to be a Lacto-Ovo vegetarian (which means I can take down some dairy and eggs). The other versions are very strict and vegan is just a bit extreme for an amateur like myself. I want to take on the challenge of having no meat (no chicken, seafood, red meat.. any meat) and no booze for 30 days and survive. If it all goes well (keeping fingers crossed) I may consider being a vegetarian once a week every month. That is being a bit optimist but I typically am.. we'll see.

I will post recipes and tips that I get from my peeps to help out my friends that are taking this challenge with me. So far we go two willing mujeres that stepped up, so that's three in total. My boyfriend, wait correction, fiancee said he will do it as well but will cheat when he's away. He claims he'll need some seafood or chicken or else he'll lose whatever fat is holding him together and well he's probably right. I said "don't ask, don't tell". I don't want to know. So far, he's a demi vegetarian for the next 30 days.

Features I found handy so far:
iphone apps: whole foods, veg kickstart for 21 days, vegrecipes

veg friends: Chris

I am currently looking for good vegetarian blogs.

Breakfast: Soyrizo and Eggs and wheat tortilla. Coffee.

Lunch: Vegetarian Chili

Dinner: TBD

Snacks: Banana