New Vegan Checking In and Going Strong!

What an incredible journey! What set out to be 6-weeks has absolutely changed my life and the lives of those around me. For three of my six weeks, my daughter, her fiancee and the kids ALL became vegan! Although I'd exposed them to some of the information that I've learned along the way - they found compassion and sympathy for the animals they could relate to and removed pigs, cows and chickens from their diets for what they say is forever, still no dairy BUT have opted to eat fish. I picked my battle and decided more livestock free from slaughter is better than nothing, I'll keep trying.

My friends and family all respect my lifestyle, they've stopped questioning me and now just call me "The Vegan!"

What I find most bizarre is how my cravings have changed, hangovers used to require some greasy dead fried animal (not that I'm hungover often - Wink! Wink! ) but now, I crave strawberries and bananas and boom headache gone!

Speaking of headaches, I've suffered from migraines all of my adult life, doctors have associated it with my menstrual cycle and told me for years it was hormonal and I basically had to deal with 4 days of brain squeezing pain EVERY month, I haven't had a migraine since my diet changed, I'm thinking dairy played a role. WOW!

I woke this morning at 3AM and wanted a baked potato (really baked and not microwaved, thanks to Brenda, I haven't used a microwave, since she told us about the health issues associated with those machines!) and I wanted a LOADED one, sooooo black beans, corn, rice, broccoli, Earth Balance Vegan Butter, sea salt and black pepper and YUM!

New Vegan Checking in and going strong!