To Vegan or Not to Vegan?

 

 photo credit: The Secret Advice of a Vegan CrossFitter

I knew I wanted to lose weight.  Rather, I know I need to lose weight.  A couple days ago, I got my blood test results from the doctor's office and it wasn't the best of news.  I knew I had to do something right away. 

After watching Vegucated and Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead, I knew the direction I wanted to go in.  I considered becoming vegan.  Although, the thought was daunting.  It was a huge leap, but I knew it had to be taken... but that severe?! No meat?!!!

I hesitated.

A couple times I visited Target, I kept seeing the book VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 to Lose Weight and Restore your Health for Good by Mark Bittman.  First thing that came to my mind... Wow! Another Atkins Diet book.  VB6 meant: Eat like a rabbit during the day and when the 6:00 pm bell rings; have an all-you-can-eat-until-your-sick kind of diet!  But each time I visited, I glanced at it and even picked it up.  But I said, eh, another book to read... BLAH, who has time for this!?  I think I was drawn to the book's (pretty) cover!!

But the last straw was drawn when I knew I couldn't juice for more than half a day.  I was hungry and dizzy!  I probably would have drooled if I just saw a commercial for McDonald's or something.  It was bad.  I could juice as part of a regimen, but I couldn't do what Joe Cross did!  I didn't have the will power, but I was in need of intervention.

"Let's go vegan!" I thought to myself.  If I just ATE the foods I juiced, I would be happier that I get to chew on something!  I picked up my Kindle and read the reviews on Amazon for Dr. Joel Fuhrman's* book: Eat to Live.  The reviews were great...and I was almost tempted to hit "Buy Now".  Something scared me.  Can I do this?  No meat?!

I hesitated again.

Then, a thought came in!  What about that book at Target?!  So I looked it up... all I could remember was VB6.  I read the reviews... and overall, they were good.  So I knew I should just give it a go.

So I did.

I read the book... in one day.

*Dr. Joel Fuhrman was the doctor consulted in both Vegucated and Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead.