A Former Vegan's Sunday morning thoughts

Ahh, just had a delicious breakfast of plantains cooked in lard (that I made myself--local Polyface pigs) and covered in Himalayan salt and sour cream (that I made myself-local grass fed cows). This was freaking delicious (duh!) but as I'm getting the hang of all this, I see that if I had had this as a side dish---rather than a main dish--with some meat, I would feel better and much more energy with which to start the day. My only barrier to adding more meat is habit and lack of knowledge about preparation. I still have lots to learn about cooking it, and am just not in the habit of buying enough of it yet. But oh when I eat it, it is SO nice to have energy!! And digestive ease!! This feedback loop of cause and effect will surely cause me to buy and fix more.

As I embrace Paleo, Weston A Price, and hopefully GAPS soon for some good healing...It seems like the whole world is going vegan/vegetarian en masse. It seems inescapable in a way I didn't notice while vegan/veg.   Which is great, to each their own journey, live it up. This blog used to be called "RAW FOOD TRANSITIONS: Always Vegan, Always Sugar Free". Like until 5 minutes ago!  Oh, and did I mention in this post that I was vegetarian for TWENTY FIVE YEARS!??  This actually used to be my vision board...to go to Tree Of Life raw vegan retreat center in Arizona!

This is a vision board, still sitting in the middle of my living room. In fact, today, Tree of Life just put out a facebook post "Dr. Cousens' free lecture starts NOW! Why Organic, Local Eggs and Dairy are Not a Health Food"!   I would have listened, but couldn't due to the time, but no matter what his reasoning, I'm really not interested anyway.  Especially as a mom, I am definitely feeding my child eggs and always did, even when I was vegan.  And although dairy is questionable....egg yolks are most DEFINITELY a health food.  (Although LOL you would think I would learn by now not to attach strongly to anything when it comes to nutrition.  Actually, it seems from my studying, that people with autoimmune conditions, which result from a leaky, or permeable gut lining, do need to cut out eggs until that is healed.)

Being a former vegan is way different than living the life of most people who have never gone veg.  I do everything differently; that is plain to me any time I go out & see people eating, anywhere.  (example--I would never eat in a restaurant..I wouldn't know the farm the animals came from OR what kind of cooking oil was used!)  I think vegans initially have great reasons, well actually-- let me change that to "motivations", for their choice.  But Lierre Keith pretty well explains why although purely motivated, the reasons are so faulty that the entire paradigm is not at all "reasonable".  So, although going vegan makes sense at the time, the quicker one can move out and through it, the better for their health (and the environment, provided their choices are local & sustainable after stopping).