Day 1

So, I know its only like 1:00 but to be fair, I started around lunch time yesterday so I have just about a whole day in.

For breakfast, I just ate a hand full of berries and coffee with almond milk and stevia. I don't think I should be drinking coffee but come onnnn. I can't do without it. I need it. I normally don't do anything big for breakfast because I'm busy making three separate breakfasts for everyone else. I have one kid, but I watch my best friends little girl from 8-4 during the day. Usually I go for a piece of toast but surprisingly enough the berries kept me full till about 1130. By then I was starving. I made myself a sweet potato with a little raw honey and cinnamon and spinach cooked with coconut oil.

I'm going to be honest, I don't love eating like this, but I will say one thing. I put both kids down for a nap around 1:00 and more often then not I'm completely worn out by then and close my eyes for like a half hour too. Today, I just went to lay down and my eyes wouldn't close. I realized I wasn't tired. Totally weird, but I'll take it. I need to do some laundry anyway.

Dinner will most likely be a stir fry of veggies. On Atkins I would cook a piece of chicken and a bunch of low carb veggies and I loved it, so hopefully nixing the chicken wont be too bad. I should really put or take a pic of me now and then me later... we'll see. I have the worst self confidence and having a pic of me on the internet is not going to help.

More tomorrow!

Becoming a herbivore

Anyone ever seen the documentary "Forks over Knives"? Well, you should. It's awesome and terrifying at the same time. Basically, it blames any kind of processed foods and animal products for most of our health problems today. Now, I'm sure that the processed foods doesn't surprise you, I'm not sure there's anyone around today that thinks anything from McDonald's or Mac n cheese or soda is healthy, or good for you. But the animal products shocked the hell out of me. 

Since I had my son almost exactly two years ago, I started looking into losing weight. No, not just the "baby weight" I'm talking WEIGHT that I've carried around my whole life. Why since I had little man did this my weight become a concern?  I was getting married in a year. (Yes we did things backwards) Well, let me tell you losing weight is the worst. First I did try the low-fat, count your calories, everything is half food and the other half chemicals approach. But after a month I neither lost nor gained weight and I felt like garbage. Then I tried Atkins. And yes, it worked. I lost 20lbs in a month! But then month two only provided a couple more pounds lost, and I was impatient. It was then I discovered the Beyond Diet, and I can honestly say I never felt better in my whole life. The diet is really a life style where eating only fruits, vegetables and meat is delicious and satisfying. It's a very healthy way of life, and although it sounds a little crazy to an American, it's worth trying out. And it's not just those three things, there's plenty of eating options. Anyway, I lost 25 more pounds and felt great on my wedding day, although I had plenty more weight to lose.

Then I was married... So I started eating again. 

I think it started happening when we got our new place. We had more bills to pay so for whatever reason I thought grocery shopping on the cheap would be a good idea and eating crap that comes from boxes wouldn't make me gain weight again. Well, I was wrong. To be honest, I'm not sure how much of it I've gained back because I won't buy a scale for the mere fact that I know I'll hate myself. But, I know I've gained at least most of what I've lost back. I can feel it in my clothes.

Look up the Okinawans. These people are awesome. They live to be 100 years old, highest life expentacys is the world.  They're also like 10 times less likely to die from all the worst kinds of diseases we are plagued with over here. Their secret.... They eat virtually no meat. Okay, they eat pork on holidays and the occasional fish. But they eat a plant based diet! Also they don't eat nearly the amount of rice that most Japanese cultures consume. They live off veggies, sweet potatoes, grains(no not wheat, think quinoa) and fruit.

Brings me to what I will be feasting on for a while. Well, basically what they do. Anything with a face or parents, I'll be staying away from. Also, anything that came from their body. I won't be eating anything from a box. No sugars. No gluten. What I can eat is fresh veggies and fruit, whole grains like quinoa and brown rice. Legumes and nuts. I'm still getting all this together, a full list will come later. 

Fast forward to why I'm blogging. Yes, I am going to try an all plant based food diet to see if I can lose weight on it. But there's something else that makes me feel like I have to do it. My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 31. She died at 40. Her sister was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at the age of 47 and died at 50. I don't have a good chance of dodging this disease, and being over weight and doing nothing isn't helping my chances. Ive always felt kind of helpless with the whole situation. I don't believe modern medicine is trying to help people with cancer or people trying to prevent it, Im pretty sure they're just out to make money. Their solution to prevent getting breast cancer is to have a double mastectomy which costs about 50k. Not as much money as a cancer patient  who shells out around 120k for surgeries and treatment, not counting countless prescriptions. And all that for being averaged 5 years of life. Something's got to change! I can't leave my life, when I have a two year old, to money hungry big business America. So, in my opinion, this is one option I can control. At 24 I'm sneaking up quickly to 31, when my mom got diagnosed. And who's to say it wouldn't pop up sooner than hers did? I just feel like I have to do this. And I know it's gonna suck sometimes
but dying sucks a lot too.