Eat real food, mainly plants.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Real food means whole foods in their most natural state. Aim to eat these as much as possible and you are doing better than 90% of the U.S. population. Then – gasp- if you eat a piece of cheese at a party it doesn’t mean you aren’t “plantbased” anymore or you should just give up and go back to a S.A.D. diet, it means you had a piece of cheese. We are not perfect vegan robots who start all over from day 1 when we eat something off our “list”. At least I don’t want to be that. I am imperfect – sometimes I get carried away and have 4, ok maybe 5, margaritas (and dance all night until my shoes break), sometimes I eat a slice of pizza with cheese on it because I’m in a group and don’t want to be difficult. Or like today, I’m in another country and asking about every ingredient in my meal is just ridiculous in the scheme of life. It doesn’t have meat in it so I am good. I take the victory and don’t sweat the small stuff. If these moments make up 5% of my life I am good with it.This is what plantbased, not perfect means to me.
The most questions I get through Instagram are on what I eat and how much, what times, etc. I feel that people are really asking for a model to follow and I don’t want to mislead anyone to think I only eat acai bowls. I certainly could lol, but that is not always achievable. I am not 100% vegan. I work a 9 -5 job, I don’t eat dinner until 8pm at night, I rush in the morning and don’t have time to make perfect instagrammable pictures. Sometimes my best day is grabbing a ready made salad at TJ’s and picking off the cheese – and THAT’S OK. Anyway, that’s my rant. I hope it resonates with you in some way. Today I thought a lot about the fact that even being able to argue raw vegan vs plantbased vs whatever is a privilege we should all feel so blessed to even have. xx, Beth