Most Indian people have the idea that if you are trying to eat healthy and you are going  vegan – the food is going to be boiled, steamed and extremely bland and nothing but dal and vegetables.  If I went with that conventional idea, I wouldn’t have been able sustain a vegan diet for more than a week.  I would have had a mental rebellion against myself and gone back to unhealthy foods as a revolution against myself.  (Viva la pizzas!). My taste buds are different from most of the people around me: they hail from India, with a little bit of a Middle eastern kick and are surrounded by…

When I was starting off on my weight loss journey, I knew two things:  (1) I had to let go of certain foods (2) I had to change my lifestyle. I have been a dessert lover my whole life.  I could polish off any cake in one night and not regret it.  For a McCain’s Deep and Delicious cake, I would start with one log type of slice on one end,  then go to a 2nd log, then 3rd log, then the logs would turn into rectangles and soon enough I would end on the other end.   Sometimes it could all go down in an hour.  Yeah… I had a…