Well, the days are really flying by here.

Last night I discovered the lovely cookbook I bought at the beginning of my experiment buried under a stack of research books on my bedside table. I am a total geek when it comes to research, and have been since I was about 18.

I don’t read fiction, although that was all I read up until 18, and huge amounts of it. Then I switched to non-fiction and that is pretty much all I have read since then. I read quickly, absorb a lot of information easily, and seem to have have an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. Not knowledge of recipes though, I guess.

Mostly with food, I have been “winging it”. And I seem to be doing ok. The gnawing hunger of the first week has pretty much gone away, even if I forget to pack a snack, I’m not getting that pointed, voracious feeling.

I’ve been good with just one veggie burger on my salad at lunch, don’t need 1 1/2 anymore. A third of a package of tempeh is sufficient instead of an entire half.

This morning I am trying hemp milk in my coffee instead of almond milk. I think it tastes better although it has a lot more calories. Generally I don’t care about calories but the last time I went on a hemp  milk kick, about 5 years ago when it first came out, I put on weight and that was the only thing I changed in my diet.

Speaking of weight, after a few days of feeling a bit too skinny, I seem to have equalized again. Entire bags of coconut macaroons will probably do that to you 🙂

Multiple cartons of hemp milk will do that too, and since I want my weight to stay the same and not go up, I will probably just enjoy this one and then go back to almond milk for now. In 10 days, at least from this perspective, I think I have every intention of going back to raw cows milk in my cappuccino though…

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Sitting down to breakfast: tempeh sauteed with crimini and shitake mushrooms, spinach and parsley. I made a marinade of sesame oil, tamari, red wine vinegar, and sesame seeds. It’s good. But it’s not eggs. I’m still attached to the idea of eggs.