It was May 2015 that my journey into Whole Food Plant Based Life Style started on a camping trip with my youngest son Joshua, and his friend Taylor.
I showed up with the usual foods ‘men’ eat when camping… a huge volume of dead meats, and canned Spam for good measure.
My son began to unload his contributions to the food stash, and it looked like a veggie and fruit vender had arrived to set up a sale at the Farmers Market.
I was shocked and fearful. Had my dear little son been captured by a cult, and brainwashed into turning into a damnable VEGAN?
He explained it was simply the best nutrition for the cheapest cost for a starving college student. That after research, he was telling something about ….”starchavore” ….something about a fellow named McDougal … anyway, it was good food, and cheap prices….who could object about that.
Josh had given up sodas many months before at the encouragement of his big brother Clifton. Now that was scary to me since I was doing several Big Gulp portions of regular sodas a day at the time.
But after hearing bits and pieces of the reason ‘why’ it was healthy to eat this new way, I decided my 240 pounds were too much for me, and besides, I love beans and rice, as well as potatoes.
Thus started a journey to where I am today over two years later. And the journey continues to enlarge each day.
I have come a long way from giving up sodas, and eating more beans, rice, and potatoes….
Honestly, it has been fun.
And remember through it all, No Calories were counted, No Protein Measured, NO CARBS were FEARED!
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