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IS VEGAN MAKING MY LIFE MORE POSITIVE?

Veganism has been a transformational journey for me. A journey about compassion and also a journey about pain. It still hurts me so deeply to see all of the sufferings in the world. At the same time, it warms my heart that people are becoming more open to this lifestyle and saving animals as a result. Besides this friction between pain and joy, they’ve been some other significant learnings since I became vegan almost three years ago. In this post, I’ll be sharing my honest experiences and lessons of what it’s like to be vegan. This is not a post about glorifying veganism. In fact, it’s quite the opposite.  I think many vegans are so focused on putting themselves in the best light in an attempt to inspire others to make the change. I get it. This very blog is a prime�example of that. However, there’s also value in absolute honesty in what it’s really like to live a vegan lifestyle. It’s refreshing to see the challenges and what you could potentially expect. Note: since publish...
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HOW FASTING WORKS FOR ME

All of my life I’ve been overweight and started emotional eating already as a child. I have always struggled with sugar cravings, been hungry almost constantly and my weight has yo-yoed throughout most of my life. The first time I felt fat and thought that I neeed to go on a diet, I was probably no more than 8 or 9 years old. Life has been filled with a lot of feelings of shame, and I, together with so many others, was taught that fat was sinful. Fat was what made me fat, that was it. After many strenuous attempts to lose weight, I only weighed more and more. My weight increased rapidly after I stopped taking my birth control pills, and back then I had no idea that I had PCOS. I went to see doctors several times but didn’t really get any answers. My weight ended up at 309 lbs. (140 kg) and I reached a dead end, deeply depressed and everything was heavy and difficult. I had always been chubby, but I had never been this big before. Everyday life became hard and the limitations of what I could do increased steadily. Desperately, I tried everything, powder, bars, pills that would make the fat leave my body, and ate low-fat food, but nothing helped. My apetite was so big and it became even more impossible to control as I was always hungry. For a long time, I was convinced that it was fat that was making me fat, until I started reading about low carb (low-carb). I had tried it before but without really knowing what I was doing. I had only heard that it was good to avoid bread. In the fall of 2010, I had reached the bottom, it was now or never. A gastric bypass was a gnawing thought in the back of my mind, even if it wasn’t something I really wanted. I read EVERYTHING I could find about LCHF and in January 2011 I started. From that day I slowly got my life back. I got my life back! I have gone from being an overeater and an emotional eater, weight at 309 pounds (140 kilos) to today, having full control over what I eat, freedom from sugar cravings, satiated and pleased, and am currently weighing 176 pounds (80 kilos). For the first time in my life, I’ve lost weight without being hungry. But perhaps the most important thing is that I’m maintaining my weight and that I feel healthy inside and out. My body’s harmony feels amazing and I never thought it would be possible to get a normal relationship with food. Thankfully, I know better, it was the carbs that made me fat

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