Control Week Day 1

Eman-
     It has been three weeks since we ended our diets, so we are using this week as our control week. Today for breakfast I had waffles and a glass of milk, and for lunch I had beef and rice. For dinner I had salmon and another glass of milk. As it has been a while since we ended the diets, my body is used to my regular diet. I feel like I have more energy than when we were vegan, but I also don't have the sort of "healthy glow" that I had.

Blood Pressure: 92/60 mmHg
Heart Rate- 85 bpm
Weight- 89.5

Monica-
     I didn't have breakfast today. But for lunch I had some fettuccini alfredo. For dinner I had some curry chickpeas and rice. Then I had  some oatmeal.

Blood Pressure- 99/73 mmHg
Heart Rate- 91 bpm
Weight-98.8

After Diet Update

It has been two weeks since we have finished our vegetarian and vegan diets. We learned that it takes a lot of self discipline and commitment to stay true to a huge change like the one we went through when we changed our diets. We have heard the fact that the first 7-10 days after a change is the hardest, and based on our experience, that fact seems accurate. Personally, we had a pretty hard time upholding the diet without really wanting to cheat. We proved to ourselves that we can resist certain foods if we really wanted to.

The setbacks that we faced were mental. It was very hard to control ourselves, especially in environments where everyone around us were eating foods that we could not have. Our friends were very helpful at times, as they sometimes helped us control ourselves. Another problem was that at times we forgot we were vegan. There were multiple times when we were about to eat something that we were not supposed to, but were reminded or remembered that we couldn’t eat it.

After four two weeks of the diets, we are planning on recording the blood pressure, heart rate, and weight during our regular diet as a control. We should have done this before we started the diets, but we had forgotten, so we decided to wait two weeks after the diets to make sure our bodies were back to their regular conditions and diets. Although it was a learning experience and can potentially beneficial for the environment and animals, we don’t think that we would do this diet again.

End of Diets

Monica Lubyanitsky	Weight (Lbs)	Blood Pressure (mmHg)	Heart Rate (Bpm)
(Start)3/22/17	99.6	100/65 mmHg	93 bpm
3/24/17	N/A	96/73 mmHg	95 bpm
3/27/17	N/A	100/74 mmHg	97 bpm
(End)3/2617	100.2	100/76 mmHg	90 bpm

Monica- I broke my diet at dinner. I had chicken, bean, cheese, and rice burrito. I dont really feel anything different besides that fact that i feel a little fuller.

Eman Ahmad	Weight (Lbs)	Blood Pressure (mmHg)	Heart Rate (Bpm)
(Start)3/2217	91.6	104/59 mmHg	82 bpm
3/24/17	N/A	85/62 mmHg	81 bpm
3/27/17	N/A	95/61 mmHg	84 bpm
(End)3/29/17	90.0	91/63 mmHg	76 bpm

Eman-
 Today I broke my vegan diet during lunch. I had chicken strips and dippin dots that contained milk. At first I was fine, but later on in the day I had a mild stomach ache, but I don't know if it was due to what I ate. For dinner I ate bbq chicken and rice. I am interested to see how my body will react to eating animal products again. I have also noticed that my appetite is smaller, and I think this is because I generally ate less food during these diets.