I used to be a bacon lover, I even have a piece of bacon tattooed on my arm. I'd cook meat every night along with a starch and veggies, the way my mom had taught me while growing up. I always thought this was the right way to serve meals, as it never effected me in any way. I've been with my boyfriend for about a year and a half, living together about the entire time. I'd cook for him every night, meat, starch and veggies. Next thing we knew, he blew up. The way I had been cooking caused him to gain a good amount of weight. We didn't get it, he wasn't eating fast food on the regular like he used to, we never eat fast food. We tried to cut out starches and eating low fat, low calorie meals, but even that didn't help. His mom had cancer and passed on March 9th., along with losing 16 other family members on his mother's side to cancer. So we've also been concerned about his health and his future.
We were browsing through Netflix one night and stumbled upon a documentary called "Forks Over Knives." He started to play it and I threw a fit, not wanting to get grossed out had we just eaten dinner. He gave me the look and still let it run, so I chuckled at him and said "You'll never give up meat." He agreed and wanted to watch it anyways, so we did. An hour and a half later, after being glued to the TV, we looked at each other and said "That's it!" We were convinced, we no longer needed any animal products in our diet.
So I walked over to our fridge and started gathering together everything that had meat, dairy and high fructose corn syrup in it; our fridge was almost empty. Then I proceeded to do the same to our freezer and pantry. We had about 5 bags of food gathered together and an almost empty kitchen.
Since I have always cooked on the regular and still found this to be a difficult task, I decided to write a blog to help others out there looking to change their diet and their lives around. In this blog I will include our daily struggles, recipes, restaurants, product reviews and helpful tips I've come across trying to be a successful vegan.
If you are interested in the documentary, please look it up on Netflix, purchase it online, or buy the book. I suggest to also buy the book in addition to watching the documentary because it does include a lot of helpful tips and recipes that the movie does not.
http://www.forksoverknives.com/
With Love,
Ashley and Nick
Vegetarian diets can be dangerous and are very often not as healthy as they first look. Be on the lookout for deficiencies in omega 3 fatty acids, calcium, iron, and vitamin B12. A vegetarian diet is only healthy If you are supplementing for those things normally only found in meat.
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