A week of being vegan

Hello!

We are two rather tiny 19-year-old girls from Estonia, who go by the name Kaiela (that's a combination of our names) and today we decided that we'd try a vegan lifestyle for a week. We agreed to start tomorrow, so a new week, a new start. Here we get to document everything that goes on in our heads during that week, how we feel both physically and emotionally. Maybe it'll be useful for someone, who wants to try it out themselves, or maybe it'll be just fun to read.

We finally decided to try it out after going to a vegan fair today, but we had been pondering the thought for a while now. Me and my best friend (the Kai part of our mutual name) are both huge animal lovers, who also enjoy good food (especially if it includes chocolate). Ever since we both went to university, meaning that we live and cook on our own, we have been trying, or at least i have been trying, to eat better and perhaps experiment with food a little bit more.

We chose the vegan lifestyle as our first experiment together, because it's rather different from what we're used to. We don't usually eat a lot of meat, but animal by products are definitely a part of our diet, mainly in the form of dairy products. However, we both love fruits and also munch on vegetables with pleasure, so why not try it out.

Ever since we started even thinking about being vegan for any amount of time, we both got a lot of negative feedback from others, i'd like to say that it came as a surprise to me, but it really didn't. I feel like in a lot of families, or at least mine, it was never even an option, it was like some kind of ailien way of living, unnatural or even insine. I would like to point out, that that's definitely not how i feel and we both will go into this with an open mind. In the end it's up to every person individually, how they live their lives.

So we'll be uploading photos of our meals, along with the calculated calories and other nutritional data about it. We will be using the national health recommendations here in Estonia, so they may vary from some other sources (I know they're slightly different from to the European recommendations) but the genaral guidelines should be the same. 

So we wish you all a beautiful morning, day or evening, wherever you are and will be back tomorrow with a new post.

Kaiela :)