Results!!!

    We began this journey only four months ago and yet so much has changed.  While keeping an active lifestyle and focusing on eating a mostly plant based diet our health has vastly improved.  My husband is down 30 pounds and I have lost 18!  While weight loss isn't the goal with this leap it certainly is a welcome result.

    We were talking the other night and realized that this is the longest I have gone without having some sort of infection needing treated with antibiotics in YEARS!   I feel  better than I have in, I can't remember how long.  I've gotten my spark back, have random dance parties with my kids again, and just feel happier overall.   I still struggle with this auto-immune disorder crap but instead of running an 101 degree temperature every day, I'm down to 99.5.  I also still have days where everything hurts and I don't want to get out of bed, but those are no longer the norm.
 
   My kiddos are growing like weeds.  Sometimes I wish high-wader pants would come into style so it wouldn't be so hard to keep them properly dressed! :)  The have embraced this lifestyle and have a sense of pride in making an effort to be healthy.  I'm super proud of them both.

   Brandon just finished reading The China Study by T. Colin Campbell.  He has read about 1/2 of it to me!  Every time he finished another chapter that floored him, he re-read it to me.  It was completely eye-opening.  While not everyone agrees that completely cutting out animal proteins is the answer, there is undeniable evidence showing that our current "American Diet" is killing us through heart disease, cancer, and so on.  The cancer study in mice ABSOLUTELY BLEW MY MIND!  As did the evidence that the people who tell us what is healthy, plan meals for our kids in school, and make up the material to educate our doctors, have no concern about our actual health.  I could go on and on about this but I won't.  I wholeheartedly recommend everyone read this book.  As B put it best, it should be required reading for every American.