New Vegan World

I have become pregnant for the third time and like the last two meat started to make me sick for a few months.  I also had THE worst sneeze attacks and this was in the fall in the midwest so what was triggering it and where is all this snot coming from?  Really it felt like buckets of it!  Gross yes but here is what I did.  I can't take meds for this and besides OTC does not work for long on me and I often have to switch to a different brand and many put me to sleep or dope me up even the NON drowsy ones.  Solution, I didn't go vegan yet, I first thought about Macrobiotics.

The book I got from the library I worked at was The Hip Chicks Guide to Macrobiotics, and it had a section about why MILK and any dairy is BAD for you.  It increseses MUCUS!  I am also allergic to milk slightly according to a scratch test I did when I was in sixth grade.  It also pinpoints a lot of my problems at school too.
When I got out the milk I felt great, but I realized I needed to find great recipies to keep this diet change permanent, if you feel deprived you will NOT stay on a healthy diet.  So I started looking at books like The Vegan Companion and others at my library.

I found a better way to make cream of mushroom soup without milk and thusly no longer getting stomache aches and running to the bathroom.  I am staying off meat permantly because I found out meat steals calcium from my bones to help digest the stuff,  I'm skinny and have been told I am a canadate for osteoporosis.  NOT GOOD!  NOW I get my calcium from Kale, broccoli and spinach plus fortified flaxmilk and other sources plus a calcium pill now and then.

I have MORE energy than I have had before and getting my husband on this diet too has helped him to lose weight and no longer needing his Byeta pen (type 2 diabetes)  I read that being on a vegan diet has reversed type two diabetes in people, but they have to stay on that diet and get rid of all processed foods.  We have done this and his blood sugar has been at a normal level, he did hit Pizza Hut one evening and it did spike but he didn't feel sick but he was starting to lose his cravings for those foods anyway.  I'm working on making vegan pizzas here.  I did a vegan burrito using a very good meat substitute which did NOT send me to the bathroom.  Made our own taco seasoning (no sodium and other crap that rips my gut out)  I had four of those things and it was awesome!  Love to eat without feeling sick, such a great thing you know?

I still do research online about health and I see that vegan is the most healthy diet.  I get protien from certain veggies and from millet, quinoa, and oatmeal, I like Scottish Oatmeal the best, I am also trying Buckwheat which keeps me full for my three hour work day at the library.  My favorite snacks are carrots (always have been so no change here)  and sugar snap peas, a new find that I love and satisfies sugar cravings.

I am no longer feeling wiped out from work (and I'm part time at the library) I have energy, not cranky, and I can tell when I need to eat a specific food to feel better, like eating a veggie in the morning as I am making my hot cereal.

I have been too tired to paint but recently since doing this diet I have more energy so I can get back to creating, I have been very busy researching health though that I lost my art focus there, but I think it's time to crank out some art.