Day 58 | In Search of a Vegan Doctor!

I had a really great Thanksgiving week last week - I stayed with my mother for 5 days spending most of the time cooking and holiday shopping. I think it was good for me to be outside of my own home for a little while so that I could appreciate my new lifestyle. My mother has really come around about supporting me in my fat free vegan eating - we go to salad and sushi restaurants for lunch and dinner. We even discovered that CPK (California Pizza Kitchen) serves whole grain pasta and they were willing to steam mixed vegies and use their amazing tasting fat free salsa to create a pasta dish that was incredible.

I was a lot more active over the past week and I've felt more tired than usual at the end of the day. I have been sleeping more soundly so overall I have been feeling better. Today I walked for 30 minutes as I've been planning to do for the past month - this tells me that I have more energy and better health.

A thought that came to me yesterday was that it would be a good idea to find a doctor that specializes in vegan nutrition especially since I eat extremely low fat. A search on 'vegan doctor san diego' yielded nothing except a vegan forum that posed the same question. I'm sure traditional doctors know something about vegan issues but they are part of the medical community that supports the dairy and animal food as part of a healthy diet so I feel they would be biased. I'll keep on researching this topic and will write to Dr Esselstyn to see if he has any contacts in San Diego. A simple consultation would really help me with the questions I have about my health - what's normal, what's not.

FOOD

I know that I need to better plan my meals each day because when I am away from home during the day I tend to forget to eat and then I feel sick until I do. Though I usually keep snack type foods in my purse I didn't have any today. If anything I should be eating more food but I seem to be eating less.

Another issue I'm dealing with is loss of hunger - I don't feel like eating in the morning until around 11a-12p and then I don't even think about eating until 4-6p. I may just be recovering from being away from home but being sick is not fun so I better get on top of this tomorrow.

What I ate today:

• Green apple
• Cucumber & carrot sushi
• Edamame
• Pretzel sticks
• Huge vegie salad