I kind of dove into this blog without really outlining my reasons for starting it. This blog is going to be about my attempts to be healthy, my reasons why i'm trying to be healthy and my attempts to get as cruelty free a diet as I personally can manage.
Over the years I have struggled with my weight and energy levels and digestion. Though I have never been overweight I have always disliked my body. Maybe this blog should be about what's wrong with the mainstream media and its view on the perfect body and how I should love my body. It would be great if I could think like that, i'd love to be able to love my body the way it is. But I don't feel good about myself in the way I look, I don't have any energy and the things I eat if I don't choose well cause me pain. I'm not an overly unhealthy person but I know I could do better. I'm quite a proactive person so I want to actually make a change to my life.
I have also been learning about where our food comes from. I've been watching a lot of the documentaries on Netflix (not sure how great a source of information they are). I've learnt about the meat, dairy and egg industries and how barbaric they are in their treatment of animals. I've seen the footage of chicks being thrown into blenders and cows being hit on the head for no reason and pigs being castrated by hand. Its truly gruesome. I would love to be able to connect that to my food but I have always been a biog meat eater and it's hard to break that. I'm going to try but i'm not sure i'll ever be able to cut meat completely from my diet. I am trying to have only 2 meat days a week and I know it'll take me a while to get to sticking to that but I have high hopes because I don't want to feel like rubbish inside.
I have also been learning about where our food comes from. I've been watching a lot of the documentaries on Netflix (not sure how great a source of information they are). I've learnt about the meat, dairy and egg industries and how barbaric they are in their treatment of animals. I've seen the footage of chicks being thrown into blenders and cows being hit on the head for no reason and pigs being castrated by hand. Its truly gruesome. I would love to be able to connect that to my food but I have always been a biog meat eater and it's hard to break that. I'm going to try but i'm not sure i'll ever be able to cut meat completely from my diet. I am trying to have only 2 meat days a week and I know it'll take me a while to get to sticking to that but I have high hopes because I don't want to feel like rubbish inside.
Which is why I started this blog. I want to learn about how to be healthy and maybe lose a bit of weight. I want to feel comfortable in my own skin and be able to jump around and be the person that inside I know I am. I know I can't look perfect because that's not real and the efforts that many in the fashion go to in order to look perfect are the opposite of health. I just want a body and life I can be happy with and be proud of because who wouldn't?
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