Vegan – Diet for Life
Have you ever done anything that you
knew was bad for you, but you did it anyway? Like smoking tobacco,
drinking vodka or even soda pop? Have you ever eaten anything that
you knew would make you fatter and gain weight? Like eat pizza, pasta
with cheese stuffing, or ice cream? Why? You knew it was bad for you,
but you like the taste and you ate it anyway. True?
Then perhaps you can understand how I,
after giving vegan cooking classes and lectures, writing blogs and
articles about the advantage of the vegan diet, could stray away so
far as to get really fat again. Yuck!
Who could predict that the name of my
blog – Vacationing Vegan – would apply to me, and my vacation
away from logic, good food, and a vegan diet? Yes, I ate my pizza,
drank soda, and ate pasta stuffed with cheese. I loved it, but felt
like a fat blob that didn't want to move off the couch.
Today? I am over 30 pounds lighter than
I was in April of this year. I have lost from size 38 inch waist
pants to 34 inch falling off me. My XXL shirts look like bathrobes on
me, and now I wear size medium or large. I eat vegan 95% of the time,
and snack on vegetarian but non-vegan items on weekends to keep my
sanity.
But the other half of my program is
just as important as my diet to weight loss. I am riding my bike 8 to
12 miles a day, and loving it! I am crazy about exercise on my bike,
and ride on the LA river bike path day and night. This daily exercise
and my vegan diet have worked to make me feel great again.
Although I am 60 years old as of March
24th, I was at college last week and I asked a stranger
how old she thought I was. I ask her not to lie or flatter me, and as
she was LGBT there was no sexual reason for her to lie.
She said I
looked like I was in my mid thirties, but I could be as old as 40 but
just hide it well.
Yes, I use lotion on my face, and I colored my
gray hair brown again, but really – mid thirties? That is because
of my diet and exercise program, and my spiritual program.
So here is my thoughts on the topic.
Eat vegan if you want to lose weight, feel good, have energy, live
longer, avoid disease and look 20 years younger than you are. Enough
reasons?
All content and photography copyright 2017 by Dennis Davis. See www.LosAngeles-Photo.com, www.DennisDavisPhotography.com and www.LongBeachPhotographers.net
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