Reemerging

To reemerge, to come back, to reappear, to return. 
Resurging once again from the depths of despair. 
I supposed that sounds very harsh, but sometimes is the only way to say what others would call "the daily routine".

Routine is my least favorite word in any language, I really dislike it.
I once read in a book this phrase: "I rather be shocked than bored" and I guess that somehow stayed with me. There is nothing more boring than having a routine, although I must agree that sometimes is a necessary evil. Which brings me to my long absence from this blog. 

Yes, routine kept me away, but trying to break away from that awful daily life also kept me away. I'm not saying I don't have a routine anymore, I'm just implying that I finally got out of the one thing that kept me from doing what makes me happy.
Now, finally liberated I can concentrate on the small things that make me smile.

And one of those things is being able to talk and write about how being a vegan has changed my life. How good it makes me feel to be able to say everyday that I no longer eat meat. No living being should have to suffer for us humans to be able to breathe. And I have the firm believe that our lives are no more important or valuable than all of those, pigs, cows and chickens that die every day so that someone can satisfy their taste buds.

I want to retake this blog and finally keep it up the way I first intended to, so hopefully those few of you that have been asking me when will I write again can forgive my absence and accompany me in this journey. If there is anyone one out there reading this for the first time and are interested in becoming vegan, I applaud you! I thank you and the many animal lives that will be saved, thank you as well. 

Here I leave you with a link of a great start up guide:

  Go vegan for them, start today-> http://www.the30dayveganchallenge.com/fe/29373-30-day-vegan-challenge

Please subscribe and share! See you soon!

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I have been vegan for about 8 months now, and being a fan of eating out at least twice a week I must say that it has not been easy finding places that are vegan friendly here in Boston MA.

One of the places I used to always go out with friends and family is TGI Friday's. But after going vegan, I realized there are very few plates you can convert to vegan friendly there, which is very disappointing.  They put cheese on almost everything and the dressings I'm sure have some kind of dairy in them, that I have no choice but to order a plain salad with an Italian light dressing, or the pasta with tomato sauce on it, making sure you say "no cheese on it, please"  I once had the fried green beans, but I'm sure the batter is made with egg whites, so I decided to not ever order it again.

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Another place I like going is Bertuccis, I of course loved their Pizza! And so you know, pizza used to be my favorite food in the whole wide world! I know... Many people I told this fact used to raise their eyebrows as in saying... "How can you like Pizza? Why not steak or some exotic Latin food." But I'm sorry to be deceiving, but nothing used to entice me as much as Pizza did. The anticipation of that first bite, with the melted cheese and the tomato sauce blend together gave way more satisfaction than any other food would. So Bertuccis Pizza had in my view one of the best available. But now since I no longer indulge in cheese, I order a pasta dish, making sure I tell the waiter my preferences, which I must say they usually are happy to accommodate.
Most other places like Dennis, Friendly's and any other restaurant I have to stick with ordering a salad or minestrone soup, or making my own dish based on their sides.
In Dennis I once ordered the oatmeal with blueberry's on it for breakfast, and you can also do this in Starbucks except here you would order it with the granola and brown sugar, which I have to say is delish and so much better than having a egg, ham and cheese on a plain bagel, and healthier!

Friday's Pasta with Alfredo Sauce. No Meat.

In most places they really, truly, need to add more vegan friendly items to their menus. Which is why I wrote a letter to each place I normally eat at to ask them to do just that! ;) Here is a copy of this letter, you may choose to use it too if you wish, just change the name of the restaurant:

Dear Friday's

Me and my friends and family have been choosing your restaurant for many years over any other restaurant. We like the atmosphere and the good, affordable food you offer. However, since I became Vegan I have to choose to eat at home more often due to the fact that you have so very little options in your menu. Would you please consider adding some vegan or vegetarian friendly items?
I would love to be able to order a veggie burger with fries, rice with tofu instead of chicken, and  a plain salad without cheese on it and a good dairy free dessert.
With so many people choosing a healthy vegetarian and vegan lifestyle, I think this would be a great thing for you to offer! Please do consider my suggestion.


Thank You!

Home made Vegan Chili with rice and strawberry lemonade. 

Of course Boston has a few good vegan restaurants, so I'm grateful to be able to go out with friends and have a good option available for me. Hopefully someday every restaurant will add more friendly and meatless options to their menus or they will be losing big time! 

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Winter is by far my least favorite season of the year.

I guess the reasons are obvious, is too cold, it snows, skin goes dry and you get the winter blues.

This last one is probably the one that gives me the most trouble, because it is really hard to handle being depressed and of course with the holidays coming it's just even worse.

The good thing is that being vegan in winter seems to be a lot easier! For instance, I found out there are a couple of nice restaurants close to me that I can indulge on.

The newest one in the Boston Area is True Bistro , which will open this Tuesday! I really can't wait to go, I did try to make a reservation when the Boston Vegetarian Association went this Saturday to a soft opening but all the spots were taken really fast! There is this other place I have been dying to go, Piece of pie for Vegan Pizza! I saw the pictures and it really looks delicious! They were selling this pizza at the Vegetarian festival last weekend, but when I went around their table all the pizza was gone! I overheard some guy there saying "I can't help it if my pizza is so damn good!" which I thought it was kind of rude. But I guess he's only telling the truth. I will experience it soon since I'm going to a book signing on November 18th! The book is called: The Vegan girls guide to life. I follow the author on Twitter and she seems like a cool down to earth girl and can't wait to meet her! And try the Pizza ;)

Another thing I will like to do this month is go to one of the meetings the Boston Vegan Association gives on Fridays at the Karma Yoga Studio. It seems like a good way to meet other vegans around here. So I will be posting on any of these experiences when I do go to either or better yet all of them!

Sounds like a lot when I write it, but it's really not much I guess.

I always try to commit to too much and at the end don't really do it, which is disappointing :( I don't know if it's the Gemini in me because I seem to always start two or three projects at the same time and then I get overwhelmed when I have to finish them! So I guess we'll see! I will also commit to write more often on my blogs, I really want to! Is a need to express myself that I take away when not feeling motivated enough, but is something I really really will like to commit!

I truly hope everyone is having an awesome vegan/vegetarian winter!

See you in the next post...

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 This Post Is only availave in Spanish. Please Watch 10 reasons to become Vegetarian and for Animals all humans are Nazi on YouTube.

Me sentí plenamente conmovida cuando vi este vídeo, que no pude hacer otra cosa mas que querer compartirlo. ¿Hay alguien allí que lo este viendo?
Si no te sientes conmovido al igual que yo después de verlo, sencillamente no se que clase de sentimientos puedas tener.
No es justo para los animales ser tratados de la forma que son tratados ¡diariamente!
Acaso somos todos tan ciegos como para no ver el daño que le estamos causando a nuestros cuerpos y ¡al planeta entero!
¡Por favor! Te suplico que tomes un momento para reflexionar en lo que pones en tu cuerpo.
Te invito a tratar este nuevo estilo de vida.
Cambia tu dieta a una mejor basada en vegetales, legumbres y granos. ¡Te aseguro que no te arrepentirás!
Si tienes una duda, o necesitas apoyo para empezar, ¡escríbeme! mi email es: lily.flor@yahoo.com
Sígueme en twitter, mi nombre alli es Lilyflor  Si necesitas mas inspiración te recomiendo leer Skinny Bitch.

   

Tambien ve a Youtube y en buscador escribe: 10 razones para ser Vegetariano:

 

Gracias por leer y ser parte de algo ¡¡muy grande!! Una mejor vida, para ti, para mi, ¡para todos!

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So I downloaded a new App for my Iphone the other day!
It was for a Vegan 24 hour channel, I wasn't sure if I should or if I would like it but I did and I must say that I love it!!
I already seen a few shows I like, they also have great easy to follow recipes! (I'll post some soon just need to go food shopping)

I really recommend everyone to go and visit this channel you can even access it on the web! here is the Address:

www.suprememastertv.com

I know I haven't written in a while but If you do read my blog I ask you to be patient, I do tend to take long between updates and besides I do not want to bore you with gibberish so subscribe or add me to your twitter my nick name there is Lilyflor and I'll post there when there is an update.  Also please leave me a comment if you like!

So yesterday I ordered a pair of sneakers from Zappos they are the Vegan white and silver sneakers from Earth foot wear! They are supposed to help me lose weight as I walk!! I'll let you know how that went when I get them! I want to start walking soon! summer is just around the corner and that only means is bikini and tank top season. And as you can see from this blog I'm a vegan yes, but I'll like to be a sexy one! ;)

Also the other day my boyfriend got me the Skinny bitch and Skinny bitch in the Kitch books!




  
I already read the Skinny Bitch book so I decided to get the Skinny Bitch in the Kitch as well. It looks like it has a lot of good recipes and I can't wait to try it out!
I'll be posting if I do ;)
This book I bought it after I found out it was Vegan, I had seen it on the shelves at the book store but I wasn't sure I wanted to read it. Another diet book you know. But when I read It was Vegan I decided to read it and I love it!!
Those girls are crazy! I love their honest approach and how they explain things. Trust me you will not want to even touch meat of have anything dairy after reading it!
So hopefully I can inspire a few of you to read them!

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This picture was so cute I wanted to share it!

I can't believe this cute little chick will end up being someones dinner! Maybe he would just be wasted after being ordered in a KFC by a brat kid and then he will decide he no longer wants it so he will just throw it away and the life of this chick will be worth nothing. I feel so sick to think of the many chickens, I myself ate thru out my life and I can't help but feel horrible about it!

They have the right to live a beautiful life, full of sunshine and recreation.

I remember having a pet chicken when I was a little girl, me and all my sisters had one.

Mine was a small black one who was always by herself. The chickens around the block will pick on her and so she was always lonely. We named her Solita which means the lonely one.

Time went by and she grew and was being picked on by the rest of the chicken even more! So I had to give it away to my cousin's family. She lived there for a while and then one day we visited them and they had eaten her!!

I felt so sad! How could they do something like that?

I think about her sometimes, I wonder why the other chickens didn't like her.

One day I hope I can have a big back yard where I can have chickens and pigs and cows and lambs well, I guess I need more than a big back yard, maybe my own farm where I can take care of defenseless animals and help them have a real happy life!

Wouldn't that be awesome?

I feel so good to say that it's been about two months since I had all meat, produce out of my body, it really feels like more! For some reason I thought it was more than that, but watching a self video blog about the lemonade diet I did I notice that it's been less!! I must say I'm in shock! I truly thought it was more! Which I guess is kind of cool if you think that in less than two months, which is about 6 weeks I lost about 15 pounds! And I have not been exercising! So If I was I would be losing even more! I think I should start this time for sure! I need a plan asap. Things should only get better from here on! Wel,l I can only hope!

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Today was a very boring day, it rained the whole day! I mean it did not stop at all!

This weather is really making me depressed and I don't know why I don't seem to learn my lesson! It does happen every single year!

I really need to book myself a trip to the south and get a serious dose of sunshine!

Today it was also very odd for my Vegan self as well. I started drinking the Umeboshi, Daikon, and shoyu tea from Alicia's Silverstone book, The Kind Diet.
And I must say that it wasn't very good. It was so salty! And it didn't smell good at all! At some point I thought I was going to puke! But thankfully I didn't!

I really don't know why some people on Alicia's forums said otherwise. I honestly don't know what they are talking about! And the thing is, that is so time consuming. I don't have a food processor people! I had to use a regular grater and it was not fun :(

I don't know... I guess since I bought all the stuff and the umeboshi plums were so expensive ($14.50 at Whole Foods)  I'll continue to drink it, but I am not eating the pulp! There is no way anyone can pay me enough for that, unless someone gives me an Ipad then I would consider it. :)

Anyway, in the A.M I drank the tea, then ran to work so I had no time to eat anything else, but I did bring my own lunch. (Very simple Brown rice and black beans with avocado) it was so delicious!

Then I worked all day boring weather and all, even had to go to CVS to get me a cranberry juice because I was not feeling well, and by the way, let me tell you, there is no organic anything in that place. I had to get me a Nantucket Juice which wasn't even all cranberry, it had pineapple, pears and some other juice concentrate. So disappointing...

All in all, it didn't turn out to be so bad and the one thing that was good was my dinner since my sweet mother in law cooked me some white beans with tomato sauce so I had that over some left over brown rice. Add to that some fresh corn tortillas and a fresh squeeze orange juice for some vitamin C and you have a very nutritious and cruelty free veggie day.

And since it is Friday, I'm off to finish my day with a glass of white wine. 

Till next time! ;)

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So I have been vegan for about a month, vegetarian for about 2 and have been trying this lifestyle for years!

What can I said I guess the sad faces of the chickens and cows and pigs were not enough for me before that.

I did watch the movies: Earthlings, Meet your meat, If slaughter house were made of glass, as well as other great informational videos about this topic. But I guess my point of view was that, even If I, one person, stop eating meat, this will not make any difference. Many animals will still get slaughtered every single day with nothing I could do about it.

I tried going meatless for a whole month and for some reason I thought I felt weak, people started to tell me that It was important to eat meat and so I just went back.

Then, looking for ways to lose weight I stumble upon "The master Cleanse diet" and Bingo! That was it! I did the lemonade diet for 10 days. (I did cheat one day, I had a banana, but I had a headache and you can't have ibuprofen without food on your system right?) And another day I had 3 pretzels (blame my daughter for that one)

The master cleanse book talks about the awful truth regarding meat and dairy, what it does to your system, and how long it really takes for your stomach to process animal flesh.

After I read all of that, tt all kind of click! I didn't want to keep on putting my body thru all that! So I just went vegetarian cold turkey. (Tofurkey)  Though I only had eggs once and never really had any dairy except for butter on my bagel in the morning. Days later I bought the book, The Kind Diet by Alicia Silverstone, and that really helped me transition completely into becoming a Vegan.

I must say that It's been so much fun cooking, food shopping and just having something different to eat everyday. No more chicken salad sandwich for lunch and boring chicken ceasar salads. No more disgusting meat and milk that would just hurt my stomach.

My skin complexion cleared, I lost weight I already feel more strong and energetic! I can truly say I'm a changed woman!

This is just the beginning of these changes, though, and I would love to share my journey with other fellow new Vegans or Vegetarians. So if that's you please do follow my blog, I'll do the same and we can all support each other!

We are the champions of our own life! And there is no life without dreams! Let's just think about that everyday and make it a new healthy inspiring cruelty free experiend!

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