So, how did I get here?
I've spent a good deal of my adult life reading about diets and nutrition. My main concern up until fairly recently was weight loss. I was a skinny kid and teenager, but began to gain weight in my early 20s, culminating in a all time high of about 170 lbs in my late-30s. Yikes! I'm all of five-foot-nuthin, so this is pretty heavy. I was determined to make a permanent change, and embarked on a soul-wearying weight loss/gain yo-yo cycle up until the present day.
Right now I'm at what I call my baseline overweight: 140 lbs. This seems to be the weight I usually end up at and can maintain for some length of time. While my doctor recommends this weight as reasonable, I believe 130 lbs or thereabouts should be doable and sustainable, not to mention healthier! Maybe this is the typical American woman self-delusion and obsession with those last ten pounds, maybe not, but I've decided its my ultimate goal regardless.
But how to get there, and stay there, without going crazy? I had no intention of counting points or calories the rest of my life, even considering that option was depressing. Plus doing the same thing over and over and over and OVER and expecting a different result was the very definition of wack-a-doo, right?
I had just spent a couple of months on Weight Watchers, and knew that the only foodstuff that had no points value were fruits and veg...well, there you go, I thought, fruit and veg it is!
Not to mention I've known for years about how disgusting and cruel factory farming was and how it was destroying our ecosystem, not to mention I also knew that plant-based diets were way healthier, and there you go: Veganism staring me in the face, going, "About time, dumbass!"
Better late than never!
Namaste, kesumo
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