AHH! So! Life is taking an interesting twist for me right now.  Never in a million years did I think I would be doing this, but here I am about to begin.  I am becoming Vegan!  

I don't really know how to explain how I decided, it just happened.  Two weeks before I went to San Francisco I started to get a lot of stomach pains and I would wake up in the early hours of the morning and feel like I had to throw up.  This was really weird because I hadn't been eating anything weird lately, so when I started to pay attention to it I realized it only happened when I had some kind of meat in my meal.  So the week before San Fran I didn't eat any meat and I felt a lot better!  When we went the only meat I had was the meat in the Din Sum and that night my stomach felt queasy.  So I decided that I would take a break from meat for a while, because my stomach couldn't handle it.

One day I was cruising through YouTube and I came across this girl named Kalel, she is Vegan and made a video talking about good reasons to become Vegan as well.  I watched the whole thing and found myself really interested, so I continued my research and found that I really agreed with everything that went with it.  The next day of school Vegan pamphlets were everywhere I went.  I grabbed one and read through it and found myself repulsed by all the cruelty I read.  It was really that moment that I decided that I wanted to try it out. 

Of course you can't just jump into becoming Vegan, especially if you are like me and have been eating meat and animal byproducts, so I am starting off small.  I am cutting out meat entirely, and I am slowly taking out dairy and eggs.  My kitchen doesnt really have anything that will help me with this goal, so if I absolutely have to have something with milk or butter in it then I will, but I hope that soon I will be able to be completely Vegan.

So I have decided to blog and document my journey of becoming vegan.  This week my friend, Paige, and I went to the smoothie factory.  I got a berry delight smoothie, with soy instead of yogurt, and then this vegan chocolate chip cookie.  I liked the smoothie more than I liked it with Yogurt, and the cookie was actually really good!  Then later that day I had a salad from chipotle, instead of my usual chicken I had Sofritas and veggies.  I know these things are all very basic and small, but none the less they are a start. :)

I hope that I will really be able to go through with this, but a lot of people are being very supportive of me!  So wish me luck?