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GAVIN RENNICK
from GNI MAG ISSUE 41
by GNI MAG
GAVIN RENNICK VEGAN CHALLENGE
I CHALLENGED MYSELF BY EATING vegan for one week. Veganism is becoming more and more on trend these days and I wanted to try it out. I promised you guys to share my experiences with you, so how did I survive a 100% plant based diet for seven days straight? What was the most difficult and challenging, and what aspects did I really like or dislike? Here is my vegan food review with GOODNESS ROCKS BELFAST.
“This new diet got me vegan excited”
On Monday (first day) I felt pretty excited to get started with my new diet! I had my personal food schedule from the nutritionist to guide me through the week, which assured me that I wouldn’t come short of anything. I had all my food prepped by GOODNESS ROCKS, so nothing stopped me from starting off right. During the week I felt good about consuming just plant based foods, it somehow felt I was more in touch with nature (yep, really :-P). Though I had some moments where I almost ‘cheated’ – I simply forgot my diet for a moment. And I realized that animal products are in more foods
than you might think! Things like eggs, quark and chicken were still in my fridge, because my friend wasn’t joining me in the challenge, which were quite tempting to grab sometimes. On Wednesday I had a lunch event where I had to take a closer look at the menu to see what options I had.
Nothing stopped me, I had everything I needed from Goodness Rocks, and their food was excellent, so tasty, so filling and flavoursome. If your looking a stepping stone to a new way I would strongly suggest you take the guess work out of it and put in the hands of the professionals.
“Maybe it’s a mental thing, because we’re so used doing the things we do?”
Yet I have to say that some days I felt a little hungry. Though Goodness Rocks carefully set up this menu fitting my personal needs, it was a bit difficult for me to get used to. I had the feeling that I couldn’t eat as much/diverse as I’m used to. Although there are lots of ways to vary, a vegan diet still gives less choices in what to eat. And you have to be creative to come up with other recipes. Maybe it was just a mental thing, because I am so used to eating animal products. I work out a lot so it’s necessary for me to get in enough proteins for muscle recovery.
With a vegan diet it may be a little less easy to consume enough proteins. The advantage of a vegan diet is that you automatically eat more healthy nutrients on a daily basis. For example, plant-based oils and margarines which contain unsaturated fatty acids. Also my veggie intake was much higher this week.
Could you foster?
