Vegan Journeys

Hey y'all



So I am a little disappointed on my journey. I have not lost anymore weight since I really started this change and I am getting frustrated. I eat mainly fruits and veggies and beans, I don't/rarely cook with salt (only in quinoa and pasta) and I dont eat rice, or bread anymore. I have been exercising everyday except for Sundays, for and hour, no less than thirty mins if it is really intense. I just can't seem to figure out what I'm doing wrong......

I love making soups and my fav so far is my pumpkin/butternut squash soup with potato. I only add coconut milk to it and use a hand mixer. I sometimes add pasta to it to keep me fuller and I add spinach to it when I have too much and it is going bad. On top I LOVE putting nutritional yeast and gomashio and I eat it with bran biscuits.

My other fav is curried chickpeas and quinoa and I sometimes have bran biscuits with it. YUM!

This is how my plate normally looks, half veggies, quarter beans and quarter grains ( Can you tell that those bran biscuits are a staple for me?)

For my dessert ( or when I feel like having something sweet) I'll have dried mango,which I have cut out now cuz I DID NOT KNOW that they had so much SUGAR! some yogurt ( that Fage stuff is soooo yummy!) One or two chocolate rice cakes and maybe some nuts. Mind you I don't eat all of those at one time! I choose which one I will have. Normally I'll have the dry fruit with yogurt, or yogurt with the rice cake.



I'm not sure if its the dairy I still have ( I eat the supermarket brand yogurt, not the Fage, its too expensive for me to keep purchasing, but I have since given up the supermarket brand yogurt realizing that it has NOTHING in it) Or it might be the dried fruit I love..... I will cut those out with the rice cakes though I dont have much of them anyways ( but anything dunked in chocolate can NEVER be good for you, right?)


I also noticed that I am ALWAYS hungry around 10pm. I try not to eat dinner or anything else after 7-7:30 pm, so I eat by 5:30 or 6:30 pm. But no matter what I eat, or how big my sizes are I still get hungry....at that same time.... and sometimes during the day when I eat throughout the day I am hungry after..... I thought it was a mental issue ( I used to snack HARD late at night) so I started having tea, but after the tea, I would be belching and STILL be hungry! (I am sooooooo frustrated now) I don't like the fact that I am always eating and exercising and nothing is working for me. It is really demotivating......


AND ANOTHER THING! (lol!) my skin has gotten REALLY BAD... I mean REALLY BAD!

This picture does not do the issue justice. my skin is BAAAAAAAD man...... and I am breaking out on my chest,neck, and upper back. I have NEVER had this happen to me before. I read somewhere that when you change your diet, your body is trying to get used to the change and may be detoxing through the skin, so I HOPE that is what is happening to me and not an allergic reaction to something.



I would LOVE to try out green smoothies, just to see if they will keep my fuller longer. I have been seeing so many people who drink green smoothies and be dropping weight without exercising! Alas,  I do not have a blender....



I need to think this vegan thing over and see what I am doing wrong......CAN SOMEBODY GET ME A BLENDER!!???



Peace