MY PLACE – POETRY , AFFIRMATIONS & MORE

Giving up the remaining animal products I consume has been forever on my mind, even more so in the last 3 years.

So just last week I decided to take the leap off the ovo-lacto vegetarian band wagon and wiggle my one unexcited toe over to the vegan ship; all the while fighting voices in my head screaming “noooooo (I hear that’s called dairy addiction).”

 I have to admit I love (loved) dairy and have always held onto my truth (and believed) that the idea of consuming dairy was not contributing to animal cruelty issues. Not really a truth as parts of me did indeed know the facts but choose to wear those rose colored glasses, as many do.

Over the years I have whispered in my own ear a million of times “it’s ok, it’s not like the animal has to die or be harmed if I consume their products; at least I’m not eating its flesh for the past 20+ years; everyone else is the problem when it comes to mass consumption, production of meat products, salmonella and of course animal cruelty, not me!”

I hate the idea of animals being farmed like a conveyor belt in a factory like a pair of rubber gloves, they are living beings!

I even wrote a research paper a couple years ago about how the ozone layer is in part depleting due to the massive amounts of methane gas produced by the millions of cows farting which believe it or not are also contributing to global warming, yes farts. Of course if there were less demand of animal products than naturally there would be less of the farting problem, including dairy.

Them not me :)…. what a lie!

For those of you that wish to know more about global warming I watched an amazing little film called “How to boil a frog”, you too could learn amazing factoids about global warming which you may not know. This is a funny, well produced film which I learned a lot from.

Here’s the link if you want to check it out.

http://www.videoproject.com/howtoboilfrog.html

So back to my veganism, which of course everyone around me is horrified by hearing or even fathoming, me too i I dare say so myself .

Day 1 was last week on Monday June 1^st. It was painful. I heard my dairy addiction screaming the whole day. It was hard, and I mean very hard. I’ve eaten raw for a few days without having dairy, I’ve even done a crazy 9 day juice fast with no dairy, yet this time is was different, this time it was only the dairy I cut out, and I noticed…let me tell you!

Day 2 was also difficult as I searched for food items to stuff my mouth as I longed for a Greek yogurt, cream in my coffee and cheese on my salad, sandwich, potato and whatever I could slap cheese on….did I say I loveeeee (d) cheese? Arggggg..I was not going to make it!

But I did.

I told myself if I could just get through the present, and not worry about the future, then maybe I could do it, one day, another one day, no stress no promises. And I did.

 I reached Friday and patted myself on the back proudly. I did it, and lived!

By Thursday the craving had gone, the thoughts about wanting were still there, but the screaming inside my head of “grab that cheese” was not.

I’m not saying I’m perfect as I did fail to resist some awesome homemade pizza on Sunday past, but I didn’t beat myself up over it.

What I did notice from my indiscretion of eating dairy is that not only is it the dairy cows that get ….well……gassy……nope not at all.

But that’s a whole other thought!