 i'm going to have my first meal today and honestly i'm not really excited to eat and i don't really feel like cooking i think it's because i reached the limit of like making myself vegan meals with the ingredients that i have at home i don't know so yeah i don't really feel like eating but i should i know i should so i am kind of not forcing myself but trying to eat so i have these spring rolls salad bowls from sprout and i'm gonna actually make spring rolls with the ingredients inside because there's like a lot of different vegetables in here and they also have some vermicelli noodles here's my spring roll and i realized that they're not vermicelli noodles i think they're just regular rice noodles oh thank god i'm going to take off all right today i got food delivered for dinner from a place called sweet balance i got the tempeh fries with some rice vegetables balsamic sauce vegan tofu cheese kale hummus and sweet potato and avocado so hot in there but this looks really good this portion is really big good afternoon it is saturday and it's already two but i haven't eaten anything because i wasn't really hungry it's just strange but i guess the dinner i had last night was really filling but anyways um i think it's about time that i should eat so i'm going to prepare my lunch i'm going to be making kimchi fried rice today with my vegan kimchi brown rice and some veggies i'm really excited for this again it'd be perfect if there was an over easy egg on top but it's dinner time it's 7 20 i actually ordered vegan Thai food from the som thai place that i went in the first uh vegan challenge video i wanted the pad thai so badly against where i ordered it but i guess they're really busy right now so it's going to take 105 minutes for it to get delivered so i am gonna drink chocolate milk because i don't think i could wait another hour i should have ordered it in advance but i just got so distracted with editing and i didn't even know the time was this late already okay that came sooner than i expected now i'm kind of regretting drinking that almond milk they wrote me a note too seeing like thank you for ordering and be healthy and strong and how they don't use plastic for the environment cute they gave me some rice cracker snacks it did come in something that looks like plastic bag but it is not plastic bag like it says here i am not plastic i am in my bedroom because i'm gonna watch a movie while eating for once hopefully i don't spill on my bed it also comes with vegan pad thai sauce lime it oh my gosh i'm so excited for this i'm gonna watch before sunset because i only watched before sunrise going to begin my movie and also eat my dinner it's all happening all the time it's made my go-to breakfast holy bagels with peanut butter and slices of apple taste this matcha latte vegan matcha latte with soy milk we're going here now it feels like it tastes like i'm eating that yeah yeah yes veggie lamen i don't even like lamen but just the fact that this is vegan made me want to try it and i guess i need it because it's good hangover cure i'm gonna try the soup you know what this kind of tastes like seollongtang because it's not spicy at all and i like that because i don't really like spicy food this is like almost 500 calories though i guess it's okay because i'm eating it for breakfast kind of killed it eating this burrito bowl from a sprout i don't like lunch slash snack all right it's time for a quick dinner before i go to radio so i already have some of the veggies cut up i'm just gonna put them in the frying pan one by one i feel like potatoes are gonna take the longest so i'm gonna put the potatoes in first i honestly didn't have too much appetite but only ate because i felt like i had to or else i would starve this is like bringing my appetite back to life i am now home from radio feeling a little really too hungry so just gonna drink my favorite chocolate almond milk i know in the last vlog i mentioned that i didn't like the oatmeal but i'm gonna give it another try i saw a lot of your comments you guys advised me to add more fruits and add milk to it instead of water to make it taste better so that's what i'm gonna do today i don't have regular almond or oat milk so i'm gonna use chocolate almond milk that's definitely gonna be good right i mean chocolate milk with anything it made the banana pancakes good so i'm guessing it's gonna make the oatmeal taste good too the only fruits i have are blueberries and they're frozen blueberries too so i'm just gonna add it it's a lot better than the first time i guess you do need to add like a lot of fruits for it to taste better but the fruit gets hot because the oatmeal is hot it's kind of weird it literally tastes like chocolate soup or chocolate porridge how do people eat this every day though i don't know i just feel like i'm not like an oatmeal kind of girl i love cereal i love granola but i'm so hungry we just have a quick break so i'm eating this black bean fries chip i'm starving we're done with the podcast now finally and i came to eat dinner at root i missed their avocado roll so much so i'm gonna get that i got my new sprout meals in the mail today and i think this is like a quesadilla a brunch i'm having the poke bowl from sprout and also this teriyaki bowl of some steamed vegetables and rice that's a lot i'm about to have a snack avocados and seaweed beautiful look at that this week has been quite hectic for me i wasn't really able to eat properly as you saw i was just like eating sweet potato snacks in between and having like a quick salad for dinner i really do wish i had more time to eat during the day once i leave my house it's just kind of like hectic so i've been watching a lot of videos on veganism and videos on x vegans and so it's really interesting to watch these videos and hear um different people's stories it just shows that like veganism isn't for everyone and you got to listen to your body so tomorrow is the last day and once i'm done with tomorrow i guess i'll you know have the final part of the video where i talk about like the pros and cons of being a vegan and soul what i struggled with or what i really liked for now i'm enjoying my late night snacks i'm home from my yoga class it was the first yoga class i went to this week not too proud of that but um i wore these new leggings and top from jing or j-i-n-g i really know how to say their brand name but top is really cute because of the way it's cut out in the back and also these leggings are super comfortable as well yeah so if you guys are in search for new leggings go check them out and i will leave the discount code here so you can use it super stretchy not sponsored but i have the discount code so just wanted to share with you guys and i don't get commission off of that just to clarify so it's time to make lunch and i honestly don't know what to make i didn't have time to go grocery shopping this week either so there's not much i can make i think i'll wing it like i always do all right i'm making spring rolls again some of you guys were asking me if my videos were sponsored by sprout not sponsored by them but they're the ones who challenge me to do this so they send me one meal a day and thank god for that because i am such a new when it comes to cooking especially vegan food so i don't know whether to call it spring roll or summer roll because i grew up in new york and whenever i went to eat pho the spring rolls were the fried ones and the summer rolls were the ones and rice paper with all the veggies so i call it summer roll but then on the salad bowl it says spring roll i guess it depends on where you live all right i'm done i got five pieces of spring roll or summer roll whatever you want to call it i'm probably gonna have something else on top of this after because this is not gonna fill me up i got my spring roll sauce aka peanut sauce and i have my sweet chili sauce too i'm also gonna pop in this quesadilla in the air fryer and heat it up to make sweet potato chips so for the potato chips i used olive oil and salt and for the sweet potato chips i used coconut oil and added some sugar gosh it looks so delicious taste test i like it better than the potato chips and those are really good too here we go how you gonna eat this all guys please make this so good i guess this is my snack for today for dinner today i brought for radio from sprout just got home from radio and guess what i'm having another late night snack i bought some unsweetened almond milk i'm gonna have this with my chocolate granola cereal always put cereal first guys okay so not put the milk in first the milk is turning brown all right guys so my 30 day challenge is over and i wanted to talk about the pros and cons of being a vegan and soul a lot of you guys requested for this as well and i just wanted to share my own personal opinions so what is it like being a vegan and soul and of course i'm only talking about the diet aspect of being a vegan not the entire lifestyle like i mentioned in the first part of the video this was the first time challenging myself to be a vegan and i said i was just gonna take baby steps and just do the easiest step which is the vegan diet now let's talk about the pros the biggest benefit of vegan diet i think was for me not having indigestion and not having constipation so i shared in the first video that i kind of suffer from constipation and i would get indigested at least once or twice a week i would have to be careful of what i eat and i would have to be conscious of what kind of food i'm eating just because my stomach is kind of sensitive and weak but on the vegan diet for the 30 days i never had indigestion i never had constipation which is like amazing and of course i didn't go on the vegan diet for the aesthetics so i didn't really measure myself or take body picks to see how much weight i lost but i did see that i lost some stubborn gut fat i mean i didn't lose weight like in the face that was drastically noticeable but i felt like the gut which is like the hardest part for me to lose weight in shrunk so that was quite a surprise and the small choices that i make in what i eat and what i consume what i buy just knowing that it can impact the environment in a positive way made me proud and made me happy i normally don't cook at home very often but during the 30 days i tried experimenting with different food and i tried to make different dishes that i never did before so i feel like i got a lot of practice with cooking and learned a lot in the process i thought it was a little bit harder to be a vegan and soul compared to the states veganism is still something that's kind of new here only the people that know about it know about it when i uploaded my first video on the vegan diet there were some comments in korean asking what a vegan was so yeah it's that new here still and i'm not trying to bash on them for not knowing about it it's just something that we grew up with since we're young all we know is eating meat and it's just so embedded in our culture and lifestyle that not a lot of people think about it and not a lot of people find out about it unless they know a friend who's a vegan or they happen to watch a video on veganism so because it is still pretty new here if you just go to regular marts they don't have a lot of vegan options so it was kind of hard for me to find ingredients to make vegan food because i would either have to get them shipped from overseas and shop online another thing about vegan ingredients is that it's just a little more expensive here and the social aspect of it i kind of felt bad for my friends because whenever we would meet up i would ask them to go eat vegan food with me all of my friends were good sports about it but let's say it's like someone that i'm meeting for the first time i don't know maybe it's like a business meeting i would feel bad to like tell them oh like i'm vegan we have to go to a vegan spot because there are only a limited number of spots that are vegan in soul being a vegan means cooking more which means investing more time into making your own food and on top of that vegan ingredients being a little more expensive and you know not everyone has the luxury of time money to invest more into their food if you think about it in a positive way then yeah you want to eat things that are good for your body right but i know not everyone things like that because not everyone can afford to think like that and i kind of felt hungry often this is probably me because i just didn't have enough time in the middle of the day to eat like a proper meal so i would just have simple quick meals which led to me getting hungry much more often than usual so that was kind of annoying just to feel hunger and to feel my stomach growling every few hours and i saw a lot of you comments telling me to eat more protein and eat more because i am not eating enough in a day and i completely understand it's just like my schedule is so irregular and i can't commit to eating proper food for all three meals so the final question is am i going to stay vegan after 30 days unfortunately no i really enjoyed my 30 days and it wasn't as difficult as i thought it would be it was only a bit easier because i had those meals delivered from sprout if i were to stay vegan i think i would have to apply for like a vegan food delivery service just because i don't always have the time to cook and make myself food so that's a commitment that i don't know if i can make right now i did promise myself that i would have at least one plant-based food a day just because i saw the benefits it had for my gut and my stomach and my digestive system and that is something that i don't want to throw away and if there are vegan options at the restaurant i go to i am going to get the vegan options i think that is something that i'm going to incorporate into my lifestyle from now on thanks to this challenge so i think that is all i have to share about being a vegan and soul for 30 days i might have missed something and i might add it while i'm editing but for now um yes this is all thank you for joining me on this 30 day journey and i hope this has encouraged you guys to cook a little more and maybe i will continue to do the what i eat in a week just to show you guys how i'm keeping up with this lifestyle but yes thank you so much for watching and i'll see you guys in the next video