Progress So Far

I know I haven't posted in a while. I have a number of excuses, including that I went on a long hike, I wasn't feeling well yesterday, and I couldn't think of anything to write. Luckily, I don't think I have to come up with a reasonable excuse (not that all of those weren't true). I'm not going to have too much time to write today because I have a lot to do. I also need to pack because I'm going away for three weeks.

I'm slowly making progress on my goal. I'm still drinking soy milk. I even tried soy ice cream. I've known since I started considering this that giving up ice cream would probably be the hardest part. Ice cream's my very favorite food... I have a sweet tooth. Well, the ice cream situation will be a little harder than switching to soy milk was, but I think I may be able to manage.

There are a few difficulties with soy ice cream. First of all, it doesn't taste quite as good as regular ice cream. It's still good, but I suppose it's hard to compete with regular ice cream. Secondly, the number of flavors is very, very limited. In fact, when I went to Whole Foods to procure some, the only flavors I saw were, I believe, vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry. So I got vanilla.

The thought of giving up cookie dough ice cream is very depressing, though. Someone needs to invent the equivalent of Ben and Jerry's for soy ice cream. Then again, cookie dough, for instance, isn't even vegan. Still: there has to be some sort of fake cookie dough that could be invented. ...Well, I guess it wasn't very healthy, anyway. But that doesn't make giving it up any easier.

But the soymilk and soy ice cream were more or less successful. The thing that didn't work out so well was the vegan yogurt. It didn't taste very good. I'm hoping that was just because when I tried it, I had a really bad stomachache. If not, I guess there are other brands. I'm still determined, though. Even if people do persist in pointing out how hard it will be to give up some of this stuff. Stubbornness does come in handy occasionally.

Well, at least if anyone tries to convince me it'll be bad for my health to attempt to go vegan, I can easily refute the claim. A lot of the unhealthy food I enjoy isn't vegan. So my health can really only improve from this. Also, just in case anyone brings this up, most Americans get too much protein anyway. ...But that's all I'm saying on the topic because I have to go.