But here we are again. I can't quit you, you big pile of my own writing, you. So here we go.
For late breakfast today, I ate a big bowl of homemade beef and barley stew. For lunch I had a bowl of vegan ice cream because coconut fat is full of bad cholesterol and now so am I. And for dinner, I ate the most Spartan dinner ever (for me). Iceberg lettuce salad (for the kitsch) with cilantro dressing from Trader Joe's, apple slices, and whole-fat cow's milk yogurt with a handful (~200 kcal) of raw almonds in it. I feel adequately full of food, but over-the-top smug about it. Being smug feels good.
And now I feel like I've earned some kind of award. Like, I'm all, "where's my medal? Guys? Guys?"
Reasons why I want to give myself an award:
1. Because I fried my husband a pork chop for his dinner, and a second one for his lunch, and I didn't eat either pork chop.
2. For a minute, right after dinner, I wanted to congratulate myself for going vegan for a day, just like the Vulcan T'Pol on Star Trek: Enterprise, who is very vegan all the time. But that would be absurd because I just ate yogurt, and I had beef for breakfast, and it seems like there was cheese in the salad dressing that I ate. But I WANTED to believe that I'd been vegan for a day. I wanted to believe!
And while I am giving myself lots of credit (too much credit?) for selflessly eating a modest bowl of vegan ice cream for lunch, that was only one meal, and T'Pol would never eat that much sugar in one sitting, unless maybe it was pecan pie and she was trying to better understand the ship's engineer Trip Tucker. Which was left unresolved, because the episode ended with her meditating in front of a slice of pie that had only one bite taken out of it. What did she do with the rest? Maybe I will know one day, but I do not know right now.
But I did go vegetarian for 2/3 of my meals today, so at least that's something. And because I'll self-congratulate over anything, I'll self-congratulate about that. Wahoo!
3. The ice cream has "Galactica" in the flavor name, and I love that show.
Here are pictures:
