Before Paleo was "cool" I was already doing it. This is a short story of how I went from eating all meat, to vegetarian to vegan with tips on how to make the transition yourself should you not yet be accomplished in this evolution.
The rationale is plenty, we can first of all selfishly save our material bodies and minds from age related illness and cancer caused by eating animal products. We can responsibly save the human race from water wars as animal agriculture is the leading cause of fresh water depletion. We can further save the air, the lungs of the planet, the Amazon, by going vegan, reducing our dependency on meat products and spreading the Dharma, the lifestyle so others are motivated as well which reduces the meat consumption world wide in an exponential fashion which would lead to the closure of factory farm expansion in Brazil.
We can save our health, the water and air quality. Furthermore, we can care about animals feelings. Arguably, they are more sensitive and feel more pain than humans. There is much evidence for this. In time, this channel that talks about all forms of voluntarism and pragmatic use cases for the anarchist/libertarian non-aggression principle will include many vegan facts pulling for peer reviewed studies I have archived. After all, non-harm to animals is the non-aggression principle manifest in our diet.
True story, I learned about ketosis from my Acupuncturist and kung fu instructor Dr. G. S. Torres. My kung fu brother Angel was suffering from obesity that he had for may years, it was getting worse and his kung fu was lacking because of it. Dr. T. put him on an all meat diet with just meat and roughage that could include asparagus, broccoli or cabbage just so that there was some fiber to pass the meat through his body.
I hadn't seen him for a couple months before he started this diet and one day I got to my class early when Angel was finishing up his personal training with Doc and I saw him, I couldn't believe it. He was thin and I nearly didn't recognize him.
I asked what happened and Doc explained that Angle was on his all meat diet. He explained how it worked. The body gets no nutrients so it goes into ketosis, it burns fat to get the nutrients stored in the fat cells. Eating meat keeps you satiated so you don't feel hungry and you can manage better long term than just fasting alone.
I didn't have as much fat to loose, just ten pounds would be great, so I started this system and guess what, I saw very little results. I didn't get cut, after a couple months I was the same. My strength didn't increase dramatically or anything either. I was doing lots of dips at the time. I remember clearly.
It was summer time and I was reunited with long time friend and current ex-wife who is also the mother of my son who I'm now amicably separated from for reasons I will not go into right now.
I finished a petition contract gig in California, I was developing a business plan but she decided she was ready to get serious with me and invite me to live with her in Arizona. I said yes, but it meant that I would have to be vegetarian. The truth was I was sick of eating cow. She explained eating cow was a sin in particular they are sacred for many reasons in India. I accepted that from her. Tracy is a vegetarian and had been for many years. She gave up meat long ago from getting involved with the Hare Krishna movement which teaches ahimsa, non harm to animals.
Unfortunately they still eat milk from factory farms and justify it usually, they are in some denial themselves but their founder Prabhupada actually forbid eating meat from factory farms, I have quotes and I'll publish a following blog with his advice for Hare Krishna's to recognize.
I love animals, I only was doing it because that's how I was raised and it was normal to eat meat for protein. My Kung Fu instructor taught me I could loose weight but truly, after two months of beef, I was sick of it and ready to try something new.
When I was a Junior in high school I lived with my mom for a summer who was doing lacto-ovo vegetarian, milk and eggs was fine. I was fine with that. I loved the food without meat and I knew I wouldn't be concerned with eating vegetarian again. Naturally, when I was living on my own after high school I packed lunches I made for myself and lived practically off of veggie burgers that were mixed grains and veggies I would add boiling water too, chopped veggies and bake. I did this on my own. I felt better. I was natural about it. My girlfriend and I would go out for sushi once a week or so, I ate eggs and cheese but I didn't buy milk. I was fine as vegetarian and I did enjoy this way of living better. I just didn't like meat as much.
So changing my diet to vegetarian felt great. I lost five pounds effortlessly. I loved to cook new meals with lots of variety in vegetables and she got me into salads again. I realized how I loved salads with avocado and my attitude at the time was that I loved cheese so much that I knew I could be vegetarian with her as long as the cheese supply was readily available.
I'm vegan now, I advocate for eliminating cheese from a diet but for those who are not capable yet, using cheese and cutting out all meat may be a valuable segway to veganism, as long as you recognized that cheese also should be eliminated for the penultimate health effects and responsibility to humanity, our planet and the animals. It can be replaced and I'll explain how in this explanation.
What got me to go vegan? I wanted too. I wanted the best health benefits. I learned about vegan bodybuilders and I was motivated. Doc told me I can but I have to learn about all amino acids and make sure I get them. So I did, I realized one supplement nutritional yeast, not only tastes amazing on anything a cheese like supplement to replace it, but has all supplementary amino acids needed and it has b-12.
The secret to going vegan: JUST ADD YEAST, JUST ADD AVOCADO, JUST ADD SPICES, JUST ADD HERBS, JUST ADD MORE FLAVOR!
What really got me to go vegan was the film Speciesism. Everyone should watch this to know what speciesism is and how horrible animal industries really are.
Avocado is amazing on everything and so is Yeast. Cheese has Opiods called casomorphies in it that makes it addictive, naturally there for ensuring baby calf's are "addicted" to their moms milk so they drink enough to grow.
Here is one peer reviewed study to show this fact. People are addicted to cheese. Once you break the addiction, it's repulsive, like eating body-odder smelling snot, it's nasty. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1764604
Being vegan is not a fad diet, it's a lifestyle. It's rooted in our ancestral heritage, all world religions, consciousness expansion and pragmatically, it can save the planet. Go vegan and never look back. Any issues you have should encourage you to consult a healthy vegan. Don't listen to doctors who work for big pharma or anyone who is not a vegan nutritionist. Many people are lifelong health vegans, many are body builders who shatter the myth.
My Kung Fu lineage exposed to me later than the founder of the Kwok family style advocated for plant proteins as superior proteins and Shaolin monks were vegan themselves, Shaolin kung fu is bad ass, they aren't weak and neither am I. I constantly out perform my meat eating counterparts.
Like I said early, I'll provide many peer reviewed studies and sustainability evidence that veganism represents the next stage in human evolution, it is the non-aggression principle applied to diet. It's worthwhile to achieve for all benefits imaginable. If you haven't seen speciesism, I dare you to watch it, it could change your life and is one of many films that can save humanity from self-destruction when it's wisdom is accepted and lifestyles change accordingly.
We all must end the lie that we need meat to supply us with protein to live. I replaced cheese with yeast and eggs with tempeh. Angel's diet didn't keep him thin when he went back to eating "normal" and he gained his weight back, poor guy, I can only encourage everyone with weight problems to go vegan and fast like I do. I now have a vegan-keto lifestyle eating only one meal a day. I've remained thin ever since and I feel better than ever before. My endurance has gone through the roof and I heal from workouts faster. There is no reason to every look back.
The fact is all amino acids that make protein are combined in our own body with vegetal diversity. Animals are love. Humans are love. When we love animals the whole world will transform. The solution to world piece begins by ending the ignorance that we need to end life to sustain it. No unnecessary pain is justified. Love is the answer and love will set you free.
Without further ado, her is a film that convinced me to go vegan and never look back. Once you know, you can't un-know. Here is some of the most quality "vegan fear porn" that turns carnists in denial into loving vegans often with a single view. I dare you to watch! This is crazier than any horror movie but it's real.
GO TEAM STEEMIT VEGANS GO!
