Hello You Lovely Lot!

A few years ago I tried to be Vegetarian but as I was around fourteen or fifteen, I had been used to just eating what Dad cooked. My parents were both very helpful and I cooked my own dinners for a while but when it came to roast dinners I just gave in.

Now I'm at University I have decided that I want to take control of my own eating habits and diet again and this time I think it will be much easier. Somehow I ended up watching loads of those videos on YouTube that are like 'What I Eat In A Day'. As someone who has struggled for years with food, I was just being nosy as to how much other people ate and what they were eating. I ended up on a Vegan one and the woman basically ate the nicest looking food. That got me round to thinking maybe I should try cooking that some time! With being at work quite a lot I find it difficult to squeeze in time to cook for myself and if I get home and Dad's made something, I just eat that because it's quicker and easier.

When I'm at University I am so unhealthy. I will just eat something quick, even if I'm in all day. Usually that't a takeaway or a pizza or something else unhealthy and I want to snap out of this. I started to watch more and more of these videos and realised that maybe the only way I could stop myself from eating these things is if I am someone who literally can't.

I have tried many diets and each one has failed miserably and I think that's because in my mind it was just salad and other boring things. The more recipes I discovered through these videos the more I realised that healthy food doesn't have to be boring. Obviously, I'm sure not all vegan food is healthy but there are so many healthy alternatives to things like chocolate and ice cream that are vegan! I've had LOADS of people say to me 'why don't you just turn veggie?' or 'why don't you just eat vegan meals every now and then?'. My answer to this is, if I buy meat and put it in my fridge but only eat meat like twice a week (like my dad suggested) then I will either have a freezer full of meat or loads of meat in the bin. I wasted quite a lot of food last year and I want to really cut down on that this year. I also want to keep my fridge organised and not have loads of out of date food (whoops). I said to Nicole that being Vegan would be like being on a diet, but not really being on a diet. I just want to put more goodness in to my body and see what happens. I'm hoping that the lack of dairy will clear my skin up and that maybe I will lose some weight but what I'm really hoping for is to just feel better in myself I guess.

SO, there's a little explanation for you!

Are any of you vegan? Do you have any tips or recipes? Let me know!

Thanks For Reading!

Becky x