My Plant Based Journey Part 1

 Good day, friends!

I hope everyone is doing well today.  What was one good thing that happened in your day?

Some of you may have followed my original blog site and may kind of know my story.  However, some of you may be new to me and I wanted to talk about my plant based journey with you.

I would like to think that for most of my life, I have consumed a somewhat healthy diet.  I live in western Pennsylvania.  So yes, I consumed animal products.  But I wouldn't say it was the standard American diet.  I loved chicken wings, burgers, and steaks.  I also loved my veggies.  I liked the healthy food (veggie burgers included), but I certainly wouldn't turn down a bacon burger. 

Maybe about 3-4 years ago,  I decided to try a low carbish diet.  I didn't want to go low carb, my body needs the energy.  Plus I never thought it made much sense to exclude fruits and vegetables just because they may have had a higher sugar content.  When I started this eating plan, I also researched food in general and kind of stumbled upon the plant based diet.  Now I really don't like the word diet, because it implies that you are depriving yourself of something.  I like to focus on what I can eat, so I like to say eating plan.

The first time I tried the plant based eating plan, I still was being mindful of the amount of carbs I was eating.  If you are following a plant based eating plan, you know that you really aren't worrying about carbs (as long as they are healthy carbs).  In fact, it's a lot of carbs.  Since I was trying to be mindful about being low carbish, it didn't work.  I was always hungry and went back to eating meat.  But in my heart, I knew that the plant based eating plan was the right path.

Since this getting to be a longer story, I have decided to break this up into separate parts.  Myself, I like reading shorter blogs.  Once they get to be too long, it gets hard for me to focus.

Thank you so much for reading, I am truly enjoying sharing my thoughts with you.  I hope that I am inspiring you in some form.

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Also, you can find me on instagram at plantbased_brandi