Look What She Can Do

Still from a very inspiring video from Cody

Eating vegan - Check
Working out - Check
Drinking a lot of water - Check
Stretching - Check
Doing yoga - OK, I'll start that tomorrow or Thursday. I promise.

Still 61.

Things are going well here and videos like this one from the Cody website are inspiring to me. My husband and I have started a 28-day vegan experiment. It's not really much of a stretch for us, except that I am craving things like cheese and Tostitos - you know, the healthy stuff. I look at this woman in this video and listen to what she says and I wonder, can I get better, too? I have somehow turned off a switch in my brain that says "I can't..." I'm trying to savor it instead of panicking that somebody will switch the darn thing back on again.

I want to share things that I find are working for me so maybe they'll work for somebody else, too. Here's a secret, I've got to lose around 70 pounds or so. I've already lost 20, but you'd never know it. Ha! Oh, well. It'll be a great story when I get there. 

The thing is I'm not on a "diet". I am suddenly - I mean really, this happened Sunday or Monday in an instant - looking at food as life-giving. I'm excited about eating vibrant plant-based foods. I had a Tostitos the other night - it must have been Sunday after we watched Forks Over Knives - and it felt heavy, oily and dead. Ick. I want to lengthen those telomeres on my DNA. I want to dance and my grandchildren's weddings. 

Check out the short video. It's nice.