How I got here.
I have 3 kids and am a stay at home mom with no job that wanted to do SOMETHING! I have been interested in health for a while, starting with working out to be skinny, then starving to be skinny, all while smoking to be skinny...not exactly health, but my view was skinny=healthy or something like that anyway. I worked at GNC for almost 3 years and literally devoured all the information that I could get my hands on there. Reading everything, learning EVERYTHING..I quickly learned that I wanted to help people with their issues, problems, hot flashes, anything and everything. I read how to "naturally" help high cholesterol, reduce menopause symptoms and lose weight with protein, no protein, fat and no fat. It didn't matter, I wanted to know it all. I loved talking supplements!
I quit working there because I needed health insurance and went to work in a law office, I loved the people but I didn't have the same "you are helping people" feeling as with GNC. I got married for the second time and moved to South Jersey with my two school age children....and there I sat, waiting, for what I don't know, but I sat.
I re-quit smoking, worked out, knew my supplements, ate healthy as I WANTED to and had a baby. A beautiful baby girl.
I nursed her and eventually the doctors confirmed (what I pretty much knew!) that she is allergic to milk. So of course I became dairy free. WOW, not easy to do. Do you know there is a very real addiction to dairy...yeah, go without it for 7 days and you will know it....
Then I wanted to lose the baby weight and I stumbled across the book "Skinny Bitch." I thought this was just some normal diet book, not so much, and have not eaten meat since! So needless to say I am now a vegan. Although I don't nurse my daughter anymore, I have always been lactose intolerant and felt 100% better NOT eating dairy. It is hard to explain but I just feel lighter, like all the weight of that "difficult to digest" food is gone from my intestines...anyway, this is not a VEGAN blog, although I could go on and on about the benefits, recipes and all about being a vegan, but that is a very personal, difficult decision to make and if you are interested I would be happy to discuss it, but as of yet it is only part of the story....
I quit working there because I needed health insurance and went to work in a law office, I loved the people but I didn't have the same "you are helping people" feeling as with GNC. I got married for the second time and moved to South Jersey with my two school age children....and there I sat, waiting, for what I don't know, but I sat.
I re-quit smoking, worked out, knew my supplements, ate healthy as I WANTED to and had a baby. A beautiful baby girl.
I nursed her and eventually the doctors confirmed (what I pretty much knew!) that she is allergic to milk. So of course I became dairy free. WOW, not easy to do. Do you know there is a very real addiction to dairy...yeah, go without it for 7 days and you will know it....
Then I wanted to lose the baby weight and I stumbled across the book "Skinny Bitch." I thought this was just some normal diet book, not so much, and have not eaten meat since! So needless to say I am now a vegan. Although I don't nurse my daughter anymore, I have always been lactose intolerant and felt 100% better NOT eating dairy. It is hard to explain but I just feel lighter, like all the weight of that "difficult to digest" food is gone from my intestines...anyway, this is not a VEGAN blog, although I could go on and on about the benefits, recipes and all about being a vegan, but that is a very personal, difficult decision to make and if you are interested I would be happy to discuss it, but as of yet it is only part of the story....
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