Starting a Vegan Journey...

WOW... its benn over a year now that I have started this journey in my life. It started in January 2010 deciding the safest most natural way to bring my baby in to this world would be a Home Birth to now April 2011 deciding after going through many other life changing descions that now Veganism will be the next healthiest lifestyle change for myself and my family. If someone told me two years ago that I would make all these changes in my life I would have told them they were crazy! I have explained before my reasoning for all of my choices I have made in the past on my blog, so I figured the best thing would be to explain my hcoice for the decison I have made to become Vegan.

First the problem... As I have said before Cecelia (my oldest) has Gastroperisis. This is a digestive problem in her stomach. She has been vomitting in her mouth since she was 12 months old (when she started eating solid food). After many doctor appointments we realized a diet change would be best for her, but after months of reducing her meals, allowing her to eat more frequently, cutting certain things out of her diet, and allthough we seen improvement she was still vomitting then she recently had an episode where she vommited a large amount all over the car on the way to the park. My middle child Josslin is a veggie eater all ready and a picky eater at that. We have noticed that she would not eat the protein that we were offereing her or really anything besides her veggies, which left us concerned she was not recieveing all the vitamins that would be important for her to have. Then my Husband... he eats more garbage than a teenage boy! He will sometimes go all day without eating and then have either a plate full of hot dogs, mixing size bowl of chocalate ceral, or a mixing bowl size of mac and cheese with hot dogs before bed! That leaves Me... I have always had a problem with my wait and eating healthy. Eating healthy was just something I never really learned how to do. With my first 2 pregnancies I gained 100 pounds! I kept most of the weight on until my middle child was 18 months old then I put myself on a strict diet that consisted on me eating every two hours snacks to get me through to the next two hours. I did not know anything about vitamins or what was important for me to eat all I worried about was losing the weight. I then lost 55 pound in 5 months. Which was great, but not healthy. So with Jameson I gained about 50 pounds, which I was thrilled with! Here I am now Jameson is almost 7 months old and I still haven't lost the baby weight.

I decided to really pay attention to what was in my food and what my body needed. I am still breastfeeding so I need to make sure that I am eating right so Jameson gets what he needs. Thats when I decided to read up more on Vegan and Vegiatariam diets. I am still learning, but after testing it out for a week we have seen huge results! Cecelia has not thrown up, and she is having regular bowel movements which is very strange for someone with Gastroperisis. Josslin is eating everything on her plate! Walter is cranky, but has lost a few pounds and he says the food isn't that bad but he misses his hot dogs. And me... I have lost 5 pounds in one week!

I will be posting more websites to help explain the diet and I will also be keeping you posted on how our fmaily is doing with the diet. Here are a few websites for you to view...

http://www.llli.org/llleaderweb/lv/lvjunjul97p69.html