Vegan Rehab

Confession: Something happened this summer, and I completely fell off the vegan bandwagon.  Sh!, don't tell anybody, but I even spent some quality time at Taco Bell.  Yikes!  (Did you know their beans are vegetarian!?)  Needless to say, I went deep and dark into an addiction I call cheese.  Thankfully, some angels came my way (yes that's you Andrea and Joey!) and reminded me who I really am: a vegan!  Why vegan, you ask?  Well, because learning how to "Eat to Change the World" is part of my personal journey.  One thing I've learned in life is to never turn your back on your individual journey.  Be who YOU are, not who THEY tell you to be.  Listen to your heart, and you will be led to far greater happiness than had you stayed in the "pack".  Becoming a vegetarian changed my life.  Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter".  Being a vegan is a personal choice.  I do it because I feel a burning in my gut that tells me I'm right where I need to be.  People tell me I am weird, that I am "extreme", that I need to eat more proooootein (the government-brainwashed agenda on protein is for a future post!), but life is too short to concern yourself with naysayers.  What I learned last year lit me on fire and made me want to be a part of the food revolution.  And darlin', with GMO's, pesticides, the destruction of our environment by factory farming, the skyrocketing of lifestyle-based diseases (namely our diet), the greed of corporations that compromise our health for profits, and the truly horrific treatment of most farm animals, you better believe there is a revolution coming.  So the next time somebody asks me why I am a vegan, I will answer "why not?".