The post I made previously about cooking covered some of this, but I've been learning a lot lately and wanted to share some of it. The diet that I try to stick with is a whole food plant based diet. The reason I follow this diet is because it appears to be the best diet for my body, my wallet, and the planet.
Since becoming an adult and cooking for myself (about five years now) I have been trying to be as healthy as possible with the least amount of effort. Most of that time was spent doing things I thought were healthy, but currently I have been learning a lot about diet and disease prevention and realized that I was very wrong for most of the last five years. My whole life my dad had worried that I didn't have enough weight on my bones. This led me to gaining about 20 pounds during my first semester at university worried that I wasn't bulky enough. The culmination of this was when I ate two eggs, two strips of bacon, two pieces of toast and a fruit smoothy every day for breakfast thinking that this would be healthy because it would help me put on weight. Now I know that my healthy weight is around where it always has been and that all the extra weight I had been trying to put on was unhealthy.
During that two eggs a day, I met my girlfriend who was vegetarian. She never pushed me to not eat meat, but I had always wanted to eat less meat for environmental reasons. Additionally, eating meals together has always been something my family has done. So I learned how to cook a few vegetarian dishes and ever since I've been eating much less meat. When we moved to Oregon, eating vegetarian got so easy that my girlfriend became vegan. I still ate meat when I had the chance, but I started learning more about healthy diets. There are a host of sources that I drew from, Mic the Vegan, Kip Anderson, Dr. Greger, and Caldwell Esselstyn have all pointed to a whole food vegan diet being exceptionally healthy. If you look long enough you will start to find a lot of research on this subject touting whole food veganism as being good for your body.
As I mentioned earlier, it's also great for your wallet and the planet. Together, my girlfriend and I spend about $70 a week on groceries which equates to $5 a day for food. That's not bad. When it comes to the planet, animal agriculture is the second biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions. This doesn't even take in to account the water use or run off pollution that is not particularly good for the planet.
(whole food vegan breakfast)
I still don't quite call myself vegan yet, (I still eat meat occasionally) but knowing all the benefits of whole food vegan diet has definitely improved my health and improved my life.
Thanks for sharing your vegan story, Curtis, even though you are not there yet 100% 😉
It seemed we share the same inspirations - the movies Cowspiracy and What the Health from Kip Anderson and Keegan Kuhn were fabulous and I gained a lot of inside about the industry and their practices from their contents. Apart from that, I really enjoy the work Dr. Gregor is doing on his website, so many great information about health and how to get to the next level of vitality 👍
Have a great rest of the week!
I never believed the people that say they don't miss meat, but I'm at the point now that I'd definitely choose good vegan food over meat. Didn't think I'd make it here. Thanks for the well wishes. If you haven't seen Kip's Google debate it's a very interesting well rounded conversation you might enjoy. Cheers!
Great to hear that! We are creatures of habits - we just have to make new ones if we want to change 😉
You got me curious, I will check that out tomorrow, thanks for the link!
Hi fellow veganish 🤗
Nice looking sandwich there! I would love the recipe please.
We have a discord for vegans, wonder if you have heard about it? #vegansofsteemit
Let me know if you'd be interested in joining if you aren't a member yet 😊
That's neat, I'll check it out. My girlfriend @Terri posts her vegan recipes. I will try to get her to put up the recipe for this one :)
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