Random Thoughts Day 6-8

Hellllloooo everybody...

Just wanted to give a quick update on my progress with this yoga and vegan challenge.  Everything is going well and I am still glad I decided to take this on.  I have noticed a small amount of weight loss (those two pounds I gained over the holidays) and my thighs are looking a little weird to me.  I have some cellulite on my inner thighs that looks shifty to me so I assume all those Warrior I, II and IIIs are working. My thighs are the most challenging for me to embrace though I am grateful to have use of them.  But I it makes me feel good that they seem to be changing.

Speaking of thighs, I told my main instructor how I have to rub my thighs down with some type of muscle rub after his class.  He told me he sometimes has to do the same after teaching his class.

WTF?

As far as food is concerned, I have been on a Mexican kick as of late.  I love Mexican food!  Like really love it.  So, I have been trying my hand at eating Mexican food with no dairy and that isn't cooked with animal ingredients.  I have a few places in Brooklyn that will do it on request but I got to pay extra. I'm just trying to eat! And I don't like to pay extra.

Since I am trying to save money by cooking more, I have been making my own version of Mexican food.  Mostly burritos and Aztec soup.  Tasty but I have to be mindful of the avocado. I find that I add a lot more then I probably need due to the lack of cheese and sour cream in the food.  I could use vegan sour cream and vegan cheese but I am going to hold off as I am not too familiar with these products, at least the sour cream anyway.  There is a new brand of vegan cheese by Daiya that is actually pretty good.  And it melts! But it cost too much for the amount you get.  I need to come up on a coupon or a sale.  I'll keep you posted.

Random thought-

Coming home on the bus tonight this man jumps up says he sees a bedbug on the bus.  So everyone gets up and looks.  Sure enough, it's a bedbug.  And where there is one, there are many.  No one sat down after that, including me.  Just saying.

Now, bedbugs have been around forever.  NYC had a major outbreak of bedbugs about two years ago.  I mean people were finding bedbugs in the panties at Victoria's Secret. So this is nothing new.  But the main critters you would see on the bus were roaches. Roaches were king of the critter world until bedbugs made a comeback.  Which made me think:

Are bedbugs the gentrifiers of the insect world, moving the roaches to second-class status in there own home?