It’s lunchtime. So far so good. I had oatmeal with apples, raisins and a few cashews for breakfast. That keep  me good for about two hours. Then I had an Amazake coconut drink. That kept me good for about an hour.

Now I am going to have lunch. I think I will have the leftover lentil rice dish from last night’s dinner.

When I woke up this morning, I noted that I already felt better, after just one day on this diet.

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I’m not doing this diet to “lose weight”. At 5’6″ and around 135lbs, I don’t really need to lose weight. I’m solid and I like it that way. When I get too skinny, I have to put a pillow between my knees when I sleep at night, and a pillow under my butt when I sit on wooden chairs. It hurts to rest my elbows on tables. My face gets really drawn. So, I’m not trying to lose weight.

What I am simply seeking to do is see how I feel when I eat this way. And keeping a blog is a way to record, in a public way, in case anyone else wants to follow suit, my journey with this process.

So far, I am finding myself hungry a lot!

I just finished eating lunch -I had a big bowl of french lentils, rice, asparagus, celery and bell pepper – but I’m not satisfied. Looks like I need to go find more food…

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For a snack, I had some dried apple rings, a clementine, and some cashews.

I made my family bacon quiche for dinner. All that bacon, eggs, cream  (raw cream, from the top of my jar of raw milk) and flour – and I didn’t want any of it. But I was hungry by the time I put it in the oven.

I had thought about what I was going to make for my husband and boys (and my son’s 5 friends who were also over for dinner) and taken care of that. Now, what was I going to feed myself?

I went to Natural Provisions in Williston today and brought home some staples, including some adzuki bean miso soup paste. I sauteed onions, shitake mushrooms and spinach, then added the miso. I made two +cups of soup and ate all of it.

It’s 8pm and I’m not hungry, even after baking a batch of chocolate chip cookies for the hoard of children in my house.

So, I made it through two days so far without meat. I already feel like I am starting to disappear, and I was uncomfortably hungry for several hours today. When I eat meat, I am always full. I like the security that always having meat in my belly gives me. I never have to feel hungry when there is meat in my diet.