Saturday, 20 September 2014

I totally forgot the excitement of being vegan! • Project Vegan: Part 2 | Day 1

I decided to change up the composition of these PVP2 (Project Vegan: Part 2) post titles. During Project Vegan, I titled my daily posts "Project Vegan: Day [#] | [Day of the week], [Date] [Month] [Year]".

If you haven't already noticed, I like to be consistent with formatting. I wouldn't call it OCD yet - I'm a psychology student; Abnormal psychology is branch sophisticated as any, and diagnosis requires many considerations - but I get extremely picky about these things. Anyway, for PVP2, my titles shall follow this template:
[Original, insightful title specific to the day] • Project Vegan: Part 2 | Day [#]


Nowww, on to today's menu:

Breakfast
Weetabix, unsweetened soy milk, raw almonds


Period 1: English
Remember English Cake Fridays? Read about them here. Anyway, it was my turn to bake. If you've been following me on Instagram, you will have seen my sneak peek pic of #rainbow snippets of #sugar. I made two dozen Low-fat Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies (see recipe here) with 75% of the sugar recommended! But I did add in a fistful of rainbow sprinkles to make it my own... Anyway, here's some food porn for y'all:


Aaand, yes, there is butter and an egg weaved into the dough... I forgot about that... I guess this is a little fail? (My bad)


Period 4
Mango juice | VITA ; Dark Chocolate Mint Almond Pro protein bar | Honey Stinger

I'd been speeding through some last-minute Bio homework during Long Break, which is why I couldn't afford to eat. After Bio (Pd 3), I had to speed through last-minute Chem revision (our test was Pd 5, after lunch, and I was - surprise surprise - busy at lunch), which is why I again couldn't afford to eat... Much. So I grabbed a sugar-loaded juice (I did not mind at all, I was so focused on getting through Chem) and chomped down a protein bar I'd taken from home; I knew if I didn't eat now, I wouldn't have a chance until I got home after school, after cross-country and after circuit-training. I NEEDED THE GLUCOSE.


(See the little mint chip in the transverse section pic? It was DELISH!)


Lunch
(Meeting with my university applciations reference writer)

And then... #hongkongweather happened. Bipolarity. I promise you, I'm not exaggerating. This is particularly common in the summer/autumn months, where one minute, the sky is sunshiny clear and the clouds are glowing; three minutes later, the sky is a murky indigo-grey, thick with fog and thundering. Lightning doesn't hold back, either. After a few minutes of high-energy light streaking through the troposphere, the fog moves over to reveal a glimmering sun and a calm, calm blue sky. I told you: bipolarity. My point is, it was ultimate crash-bang-storming when I got out of Chem (the test went well, by the way)... And cross-country was cancelled. I suppose circuit would still have been possible, but I didn't check... I probably should have, shouldn't I? ...


Snack
Fruit bowl! Kiwis, Granny Smith apple


Dinner
Red rice; soybean vermicelli, wood jelly, carrot, bean sprouts, vegetarian chicken and tofu stir-fry; choy sum

This was at 17:30. That's freakin early for me, considering my bedtime. The reason why we had dinner so early was because I'm failing Maths. I mentioned this in Revisiting Project Vegan. In an attempt to fix this, I'm receiving private tutoring... At night. Six hours a week. Uh.


Brain Food after Maths


I kid you not, I googled it. I was mentally exhausted. I truly wanted to go for a run at that point.

Raw almonds, grapefruit


That was it for my first day back at Project Vegan. 

JAN OUT.

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