So for a few days I have been eating "vegan" and just now I ate some cheesecake and I now have the old familiar stomach ache-crampy and tight and miserable something I just don't get when I stay "vegan".
When I first heard about "vegan"I was disgusted thinking that the people putting it forward were fanatics and wanting to spoil life for the rest of us. well thanks to celebrities such as Bill Clinton,Kate Winslet,etc I changed my mind and decided to give the change a chance. this week I ate as I wished just made sure that what I was eating had zero animal involved and WOW!! a week of no stomach cramps, no bloating-a week free of pain and even the headaches that have always troubled me. I am so converted.
We shopped at the Bowl and I now have several packages of seitan in the frig and I will learn to prepare my own in batches-the Food Mill offers seitan in bulk.
I will forever now avoid milk and milk products-i really didn't realize how sensitive I am to cows milk. No wonder I was a colicky baby.
I made a squash and apple soup and used a chicken bullion cube although the next purchase of bullion will be for vegi only with less salt.
I have not been a purist-there has been some chicken and cheese but I know I will come around because the thoughts of what t he chickens go through to bring me eggs is sickening and I don't want to be part of that. Spent $5.50 for hand raised chicken eggs-can't afford that so will need to learn to live without eggs.
I really do feel freer and lighter and more energetic even after a day of vegan life. Thank god for the vegetarian life of the 70's. I always planned to get back to the life and now I am but without all the fat and milk.
I have always been an animal lover loving even rats and snakes. Killing animals to eat has always disturbed me and now I am free to step out of that reality. thankfully my family is quite aware of the vegan movement so I don't have to explain as much as I did in the 70's.
I haven't yet purchased almond milk nor rice milk nor soy milk but I will although I don't like soybeans which seem to be making humans and animals fat no matter what is said about the properties of soy beans. I always hated eating them in the 70's and could sometimes stand the milk but that is as far as I ever went. replacing yogurt will be interesting-I love Strauss Family yogurt-all sour and smooth but admittedly yogurt gives me a fierce stomach ache.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
2/2/2011
so there is movement. Phone call from Randy. He needs to set up Buffy's care, He eeds t wirk without being drawn to stay home with his mother who is mortally ill in his home. I will need now to go get her (maybe he can bring her). I need to move us out of our bedroom and prepare the room for her. I need to get a double bed and a chest of drawers. I need to move our life and reform it out here and accept that life is different now and will be lived at different rhythm even perhaps a different key.
I am frightened and I don't mean to be negative and all excited over grimness but I am told that she will get really worse really fast and she will die. As she grows weaker her mental connection dims. She is my last connection to the house in Moscow the house of my childhood. I spent my first four years in California and then my father picked up my sister and myself and we all drove across the country from California to Kansas. Our grandfather Box was the last joiner. when my sister goes it is as if the book ends and I am left on my own with people who were not there,strangers in ways just as I am also the stranger in their lives.
I am frightened and I don't mean to be negative and all excited over grimness but I am told that she will get really worse really fast and she will die. As she grows weaker her mental connection dims. She is my last connection to the house in Moscow the house of my childhood. I spent my first four years in California and then my father picked up my sister and myself and we all drove across the country from California to Kansas. Our grandfather Box was the last joiner. when my sister goes it is as if the book ends and I am left on my own with people who were not there,strangers in ways just as I am also the stranger in their lives.
Wednesday 2/2/2011
Sent off to Amazon to get my first real vegan books even one for cookies. I just know that getting off the animal based diet is going to help. AND it will ultimately save money and help animals everywhere to have a better life.
Well buffy coming home 3/1/11 and this will probably be her last journey. At least she will be able to laugh and gossip and just be part of life. she will never be the same again and neither will I. I fear her passing-the end of my childhood-all gone after her and I thought no knew that we would always be together.
Need to go talk to Steve and just let this run down. Need to call Kaiser re:bringing her back and getting care until the Kaiser enrollment takes effect.
Well buffy coming home 3/1/11 and this will probably be her last journey. At least she will be able to laugh and gossip and just be part of life. she will never be the same again and neither will I. I fear her passing-the end of my childhood-all gone after her and I thought no knew that we would always be together.
Need to go talk to Steve and just let this run down. Need to call Kaiser re:bringing her back and getting care until the Kaiser enrollment takes effect.
2/2/2011
Happy Birthday Hugh Box!! (2/1/ in the decade of the Civil War well no! I think perhaps 1985,) Grandfather!! You were a wonderful cook and Buffy learned from you how to cook things carefully and slowly. Love back to you and I remember yet the hug you gave me when I went off that night to live with my husband and I thought "Grandpa does love mm !!" My son Shawn has a son named Hugh and he didn't even know about you. His wife's family has the name Hugh prominent-Southern folk. wish that I could have accepted you more rather than my mother who we now know was so troubled by guilt and fear and depression-well that would have prevented me from living my true life.
Egypt and Syria and Afghanistan up in smoke and flames-the US leaders must be VERY nervous as well as the Israelis. Wonder how much of this has been planned. Amazing this while we have snow we have not seen in years. I am so cynical that when I opened the front door and felt the curtain of warm after days of freezing I immediately thought "HAARP"and thought of crazy globalists directing warm and cold fronts.
I just don't know who/what to believe any longer. I don't have any idea what the latest science is. I read about the experiments for anti-matter and who knows what else and there is the international space station doing things that we don't know.
More thought about going vegan. Losing weight seems to be the most profound action I can take regards my health. The loss of weight brings down the blood glucose, the blood pressure. I don't know if it will ever help the heart beats which remain disturbed.
Egypt burning. James Baker on the TV-oh! how my mother disliked him. She blamed him for most of the evil in the world. She taught me my politics.
Egypt and Syria and Afghanistan up in smoke and flames-the US leaders must be VERY nervous as well as the Israelis. Wonder how much of this has been planned. Amazing this while we have snow we have not seen in years. I am so cynical that when I opened the front door and felt the curtain of warm after days of freezing I immediately thought "HAARP"and thought of crazy globalists directing warm and cold fronts.
I just don't know who/what to believe any longer. I don't have any idea what the latest science is. I read about the experiments for anti-matter and who knows what else and there is the international space station doing things that we don't know.
More thought about going vegan. Losing weight seems to be the most profound action I can take regards my health. The loss of weight brings down the blood glucose, the blood pressure. I don't know if it will ever help the heart beats which remain disturbed.
Egypt burning. James Baker on the TV-oh! how my mother disliked him. She blamed him for most of the evil in the world. She taught me my politics.
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