What I Ate Tuesday

I thought I would do a what I ate post. I'm not sure how exciting this post will be as my meals have been somewhat basic lately. I'm still struggling with the gluten free thing. My biggest struggle is that although I have been avoiding gluten, caffeine and most processed foods, I still don't really notice a lot of weight loss. So, it feels like I'm restricting myself for absolutely no reason. I try my best to not focus on the outside, and try to tell myself that what matters is that I'm healing myself on the inside, but sometimes that just doesn't work. It's just a very frustrating cycle that I've been on for quite awhile now and sometimes I just feel like saying screw it and going back to my unhealthy ways. That's been kind of bugging me this week and has caused my depression to kind of take over a bit. Anyway, sorry for the little rant but I just want to be honest about my struggles. I'm feeling uninspired in the kitchen lately as well, and that always gets me down.

For breakfast I took a break from my usual kitchari and made some spicy potato tacos with lettuce, and lots of cilantro and green onion. Topped with cholula of course.

This is a smoothie with banana, frozen mango, hemp seeds and maca powder. Someone on Instagram told me that mangoes are really great for mood stabilizing, so I added extra to my smoothie. I forgot spinach at Trader Joe's, so I'm having fruit smoothies this week.

For dinner I made skin on red mashed potatoes with fire roasted corn and vegan gravy. I needed comfort food and mashed potatoes answered my call. I used Road's End gravy mix instead of Simply Organics. It was good, but Simply Organics remains my favorite vegan gravy mix.

Here's Afro and Etta spooning! Shortly after I took this picture Kanye jumped in the middle which is her favorite spot to be. I'm so grateful for these girls because no matter how down I am, they always make me smile!