Well, last night my boyfriend did come over, and he brought Arby's! The sandwich wasn't too tempting, but oooh, those fried mozzarella sticks! They did look good. I did not succumb however. I did eat the chocolate cake that I made, it was pretty delicious with strawberries and blueberries on top of it. I used a gluten free cake mix and just added in extra oil instead of eggs. I guess I could have used apple sauce too, I have heard of people using that as a substitute as well. As in women in my families when they run out of eggs, not vegans, but I think it works well for both circumstances.
I haven't had any more chocolate cake today. The thing that really kills my cravings is green tea. I'm not sure if anyone else has discovered this, (I'm sure they have), but when I drink green tea I don't feel like I'm missing out on things as much, especially not sweet things. Fruit helps with sweet things too.
This morning I woke up and had another bowl of gluten free granola cereal with coconut milk and the left overs of a green smoothie. It had a banana, flax seed, kale, frozen tart cherries, and coconut milk in it.
Then for lunch I had leftover brown rice pasta and tomato sauce that I didn't heat up, and it made me sad that there was no cheese on it, but I ate it anyways. (It was much better last night, I probably should have heated it up). I then had to leave for a reveal of my sister's wedding dress, so I grabbed a bag of dried fruit, that would have usually been delicious, but I couldn't stomach much of it today, I'm not sure why.
When we came home I heated up a Tastee Indian dinner that was saag daal, meaning spinach and lentils, and I checked the ingredients, and it was totally vegan, but it was made in a factory that processed animal products, so they didn't mark it as vegan. Maybe it is just me, but if there are no ingredients going into my food that are animal products I think it is good. Going the extra step and making sure the factory is totally clean too, is a little too nit picky for me. It was marked vegetarian, so there was no contact with meat, even indirectly, so that's good too.
So then I tried to clean my room (unsuccessfully). I have started using the KonMari method of cleaning about a month or so ago, and made real strides, until I got to the part where I needed to organize everything, and there I have just kind of fell on my face. For those of you who don't know, the KonMari method is where you go through all of your things and touch them, hold them in your hands, and ask "does this spark joy?" and if it does, then you keep it, and if not, then you discard it. Either donating the item to charity or throwing it away. I threw away very few things, but those were actually trash, and/or items that needed to be thrown away.
After my foray into moving things around in my room without really cleaning anything at all, I came upstairs to eat dinner. I made green beans, with garlic salt and oregano on them. Then I heated up some brown basmati rice, and sauteed mushrooms, onions, and sweet red peppers, with pad thai sauce on them. It was a good dinner. Then I made a smoothie of a banana, strawberry, peanut butter, and honey with coconut milk.
Then I watched some of the Olympics, most specifically some of the men's gymnastics qualifying rounds, and women's weightlifting. I watched some women's basketball and men's water polo while I was downstairs failing at cleaning my room (read starting to crochet together granny squares that I found and was trying to finish instead of having to organize them in the stash again).
I just now finished exercising. I tried to do the elliptical that my father got me, but that sucker makes you take huge steps! My poor little chubby belly is not ready for that kind of action! So I got the rest of my half hour in on the stationary bike, which is my exercise means of choice.
And now to drink the other half of my smoothie and enjoy another relaxing evening.
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