Diet Ugh.

I found this great recipe recently for vegan lemon cake. It’s super easy to transition it to gluten free, so I jumped all over it. I was going to go to the grocery store after work on a mission to get all of the required ingredients and I was going to make it, damn it, because I need some cake in my life as of late.

Truly. I’d kick a puppy for some decent baked goods right now.

Not really, but I really want decent baked goods and I have yet to find any that are not total garbage or something that I can’t eat because of an errant ingredient, like eggs. Usually eggs.

Damn you, eggs.

So I’m in the grocery store on the hunt for these ingredients and I remembered back to my last conversation with my naturopath. She has been trying in earnest to nudge me toward being what she calls a paleovegan. No more meat, no more cheese, and of course, no more eggs.

So I’m in the grocery store and I’m finding it remarkably easy to find the ingredients that I need. I remarked it to myself even.

You know what my very next thought was?

“Maybe this wouldn’t be so bad. Maybe I should give it a try. She made it sound really simple.”

Then next?

“I’m already more than halfway there. I already don’t eat dairy at all outside of cheese, and my meat intake is negligible, and all easily substituted by beans and other things that will fill me up. I think I could do this. I ate that way for six straight weeks and I can’t deny how amazing I felt.”

I WAS TALKING MYSELF INTO IT.

UGH.

WHAT IS THE SORCERY THAT THIS WOMAN USED TO GET ME TO THIS PLACE.

So I tried it for this work week and it wasn’t terrible (I actually felt pretty energetic and fantastic), but it’s not super sustainable for me. It’s a lot of work that I’m not really in a mental place to do. (Talk to me in six months and things may be different.) So, what I’ve decided is that I’m going to find a middle ground.

I think what that’s going to look like for me is being a low dairy (rare cheese instead of multiple times daily) pescatarian. I’ve got to see how my doctor feels about that, but that’s where I am currently. I see her in a couple of weeks, so for now, that’s what I’ll do.

In other news, I start at my new position on Monday. It’s all orientation that first day and I’ll be there once a week until mid-October when I make The Big Transition. I set up my office yesterday and I couldn’t be happier with how it turned out.

This isn’t a super great picture, but I’ll get more on Monday. It is alarmingly clear how much I need some art in there, so I’ve enlisted the help of my very favorite six-year-old to make some that I can hang. I can’t wait!