Finish Line - for now at least

I finished the 21 day cleanse. Although I must admit, I didn't really end strong. I went out last night for a birthday party and had a delicious margarita, a cupcake, and a bite of a piece of cake. Eek. I was that person at the restaurant who orders with fifty thousand exceptions to the food on the menu - but I'm ok with that. I do kinda feel bad for the waiter. This one totally messed up the order and I ended up getting a free meal, which was ok because it wasn't even good and I didn't eat much of it. I'd rather ask for exceptions and be able to go out to eat than not go out at all.

I started reintroducing some of the "Big Five" back into my diet today. I had some caffeine this afternoon when I was dragging, but instead of full-caffeine, I got my iced soy latte half-caf. I also had a few spoonfuls of mango sorbet (sugar) and I just finished baking some gluten-free vegan chocolate chunk cookies (sugar). I bought the cookie mix and substituted applesauce for butter and flax meal w/hot water in place of an egg. Found those tips in Living Without magazine a few months back. And they turn out delicious. I am still conscious of not eating too much sugar. Moderation is the key.

Now that I'm done with the cleanse, my plan is to open up my blog to other things. Since I plan to remain mostly gluten-free and vegan, and since I think a lot about food, I'm sure that'll still be part of it. But I want to get back into photography, as well as talk about other stuff going on in my super exciting twentysomething life. Or something like that. We shall see.

So it begins...