The new year is coming and I am set on going vegan as well as organic as possible. I figure the new year ought to be a good place to start, you know, resolutions an all. My ultimate goal is to be able to go on juice fasts with ease. I'm also excited about losing weight an looking and feeling good. I have been far too sick for far too long. I've decided that I'm going to recycle and compost as much as possible and whenever possible. This will help me be able to afford an organic lifestyle and also lessen my carbon footprint while doing so.
Old habits die hard and new, better ones are much harder to learn. I'm addicted to cheese and potatoes. I have literally been living off of refined sugars, flours, fats, and dairy for most of my life. These are all my favorite foods. All my life I've been taught that what goes in your mouth comes off of a shelf and whatever comes off of a shelf is perfectly harmless to put into your mouth. Of course I've been blind all of my life. I lost 60 lbs on the "atkins" diet. I ate nothing but meat and cheese and very little vegetables. I would go to Burger King and order a whopper without the bun for breakfast. I would eat a bowl of meatballs doused in parmesan cheese for lunch. And for dinner? Parmesan cheese crusted chicken breast with a home made five cheese alfredo sauce topping and dip. Yeah, I was destroying my body from the inside out and I still am. I've had fibromyalgia since I was 19 and have been overweight since the age of 12.
I have finally realized that I have been poisoning myself all these years. I finally learned to start questioning everything I know because you never know the truth in a world of lies and corporate control. I learned that Pharmaceutical companies put out ads, pay for the certification of drugs, and pay doctors to prescribe them, and make a huge profit on keeping the customer coming back for more. It's not a cure. Its a life sentence of needing pills and drugs on a daily basis and a life sentence of giving your money to the makers of this drug.
People love, and I mean LOVE, to pin the cause of their problems on someone else. If the kids aren't getting good grades, it's because the teacher isn't spending enough one on one time with their child. If a kid gets autism or diabetes or asthma, it's caused by vaccines. Why do we blame the doctor for the illness and not what we choose to shovel into our children's mouth on a daily basis? Our bodies are made to eat and digest plant foods. We salivate at the sight of plant foods. Everything we need, every vitamin and mineral vital to our survival, we can get from plant foods. Our bodies can virtually never have too much plant foods, they do not link to cancer, obesity, or disease. Yet the average american diet consists of about 15% or less of fresh fruit and veggies. Mine certainly does. But for me, it's all about cost. I literally cant afford more than a few dollars a day to eat and to survive on plant food, we need about 15 to 20 pounds a day. That can cost up to $30 a day. It's much easier to justify the box of refined white flour pasta and corn syrup infested jar of tomato sauce when the meal for a whole family costs about two bucks, tastes good, and fills you up.
My plan, as a broke 23 year old in the middle of winter, is to build a vast indoor verticle organic vegetable and herb garden. I have one hanging piece right now. I used four 2 liter bottles, hung them upside down over each other in front of the window. They are full of organic soil and seeds. I planted cherry tomatoes, green onions, and I think carrots. We have been buying and juicing as much fresh produce as we can afford right now. We no longer go out to eat, we spend that money on fresh fruit and veggies. I plan to add as many fruits and veggies into my diet as possible until i get to about 90%. I hope to one day be 100% plant based and animal free. I guess that's what the point is about this blog. I also hope to inspire people to be more conscious about the choices that make, the things they spend their money on and put into their body, as well as myself.
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