10 LBS and counting!

So down 10 lbs in 3 weeks. It's been crazy around here so 10 lbs is such an accomplishment for me. Between working, getting meg ready for Miss NH, committee chair for Old Home Day, and home responsibilities I am so proud that I have for the most part stayed committed and on track. It's never easy to start something new or change how we are programmed to think sometimes. For most people we are programmed at an early age to think of food as a comfort and we are misinformed of the dangers of things in our food. We as human beings are not supposed to live on a meat laden diet. Cattle was not meant for the purpose of feeding on it. Cattle now a days is worse because it is being injected with hormones that we are not supposed to be ingesting. Why do think so many of us are getting cancer and diseases that never before have been so prevalent? I wish we included in our teachings at school a healthier way to teach our kids about more of a plant based diet. If we start at an early age we wouldn't have the problems with childhood obesity and kids with cancers we have never even heard about. I think fear of the unknown is worse than fear of change. How do you feel about change? How do feel about learning something new? What motivates you to learn new things? Food for thought....would you change the way you eat if your life depended on it? Would you become vegan or even vegetarian if your life depended on it? If the answer is yes which I know most of you are syaing yes...Than why don't you think it is important to learn about a way of eating that could prevent the unknown? Food for thought.....

1.5 lbs!!!

So excited 8.5 lbs in 2 weeks! I can't ask for anymore than that! My journey is just beginning and I feel amazing! Vegan mostly raw, a few slips along the way but I am doing well. No one said the tarnsition would be easy but it is rewarding and it is becoming easier. Most of the time I don't even think about how much of my vegetarianism centered around cheese. Cheese was definetly the downfall of restricting meat. Not that cheese is the devil but it has a way of making it into many dishes. Eliminating the cheese has been great, I know this may sound gross but when you don' have cheese in your diet you don' have mucus!!!!You know when you wake up and you spend the morning blowing your nose and coughing up the gross mucus that settles in your throat over night? Yes! No longer is my husband waking up to the sweet music of my nose and clearing of the mucosa throat! OK so enough about the mucus lets discuss some meals.....

Mornings have been kept to fruits.....let me let you in on a little tip Fruit is the easiest food to digest especially pineapple.

Lunches have been salads with cranberries and nuts.

Dinners have been lots of veggies and rice. Gluten free pastas with lots of fresh basil and garlic. Or some corn tortillas with grilled veggies and homemade salsa.

Snacks have been rice cakes,vegan rice pudding and veggies with hummus.