I’ve been trying to lose weight and eat healthy. To that end, I adapted the lunch that I take to work to be cucumber slices, an apple, blueberries and strawberries and chicken salad with cucumber and onion. The chicken salad goes on top of a handful of spinach.

Then I took a look at the amount of cholesterol in chicken and I was like I can’t truck with this. I don’t want to go out to no lame-ass heart attack. I’m trying to exercise more by going on walks and getting back into swimming, more on that one later. Anyway, the amount of cholesterol in chicken was ridiculous so I decided to look into alternatives.

I found the vegan food section and decided to take a risk on that. I bought the chorizo crumbles, which showed zero cholesterol and a small amount of saturated fat and decided to make a meal out of it with corn, black beans and pickled jalapenos. I add chipotle, cayenne and a different chipotle with roasted garlic as I saute it altogether. It’s delicious. I add guacamole, salsa and hot sauce as well. The chohula stuff, I think that I was recently shamed for using Frank’s. I had bought it out of Frank solidarity.

Anyway, I also have veggie burgers for two dinners during the week. That’s a little treat I have for myself. I love French fries but I don’t want to eat them because they’re terrible for me. So, like a lot of things I’ve found an alternative. I cut up a potato into slices and saute that with a little oil and boom you got a nice French fry like thing.

The rest of the week, it’s salads baby. I used to make my salads only with spinach but it’s kind of limp and boring. I started adding some hearts of romaine lettuce to give it some of that crunch. Throw in some sliced tomatoes, shredded carrots, shredded cheese, fake bacon bits, onions, pepita seeds and with about a teaspoon of low fat ranch dressing. I don’t like too much dressing on my salads because it just gets drowned.

It’s been a fun little journey. I definitely feel like I have more energy and I’ve lost some weight. I’m about to start a new thing where I drink a cup of beet juice. Never had a beet in my life but I heard that that’s good for heart health and gives you a nice little energy boost as well.

I’m not exactly sure why I wrote this. Maybe I wanted to give you an update on where I’m at. I don’t think I want you to follow me on this if you don’t think you have any health problems. I also don’t want to force anyone to be a vegetarian or vegan. This has just been a fun little venture. I didn’t think that it would be this easy.