Why I am Vegan

After I got married within 9 months I had put on 25 lbs. & my health started going downhill. I already had struggled with bulimia since the age of 16, & had terrible acne. I developed painful ovarian cysts & started having recurring Urinary Tract Infections. I became "Susie Homemaker" cooking & baking all kinds of delicacies for my husband..When I got pregnant with my first child they were so frequent that I often missed teaching piano because of it....

My girlfriend had recently come home from her mission having lost 50 lbs and feeling fantastic. She told me about how everyone in her mission was doing "Fit For Life". One day as I was suffering, I recalled this book & felt like I needed to read it. I read it in 3 nights and the next morning I emptied out the kitchen of all processed & animal foods. Within 1 week I lost 10 lbs, my UTI WENT AWAY and I haven't had a SINGLE ONE since!! I put on 7 lbs my entire pregnancy. Baby was growing..I was losing fat :) Anyway, we were strictly vegan for 3 years or so, but with time we began to "cheat" more & more until we really couldn't call ourselves vegan anymore..

Then on July 20, 2008 during therapy for bulimia..my whole world came crashing in on me. Most of you know the story..after many doctors, tests, neurologist, naturopaths, accupuncturist, chiropractors, witch doctors & snake oil salesmen j/k! No one could heal me...So I was left to submit my will to the Greatest Physician..the Lord.


He led me to a sweet woman who upon saying this sentence, " I had Hodgkins Lymphoma & I healed myself with food." The Spirit witnessed to me that this was what I needed to do.

She was/is a Raw Vegan (as of today 15 years Cancer free!) At that moment I began my studies of health & nutrition. I went raw overnight! Within 2 weeks I noticed dramatic changes in my symptoms & overall health & energy. I was 100% raw vegan for 10 months until family drama which brought me to my knees and I have been dealing with many issues related to "using food" as a drug to suppress pain, comfort, escape, & abuse myself. (I haven't struggled with bulimia since! I never EVER want to hurt my body like that again!) But, never the less I have continued to progress and learn from my behaviors. I pick myself up... Dust myself off... & continue forward.

First Raw Food book

I read: 

I have remained strictly vegan and continue aiming for eating an all raw diet.

My experience, studies and the countless associations & testimonies of others about their healing from so called "uncurable" diseases by just changing the diet has convinced me completely that eating foods EXACTLY the way NATURE created them is best for us & maintains & restores perfect health.

Almost all of my symptoms are gone except for 2: Occasional very scary chest pain and Lychen Schlerosus which is considered uncureable. It has been VERY scary and VERY humbling to wonder if "today is the day I will die.." EVERY SINGLE DAY since that day...

But...I have experienced tremendous improvement. The majority of my symptoms are GONE! And I have no doubt that with continued healthful living & eating I will be totally healed. I do.

I always compare the Gospel to everything and to me eating an unadulterated, pure, whose source is God, created & intended for Man, perfect in every way for our bodies diet is what's right.

Avoiding processed, additive filled, nutrient low, dead, cooked, fried, baked, microwaved, boiled, chemical, artificial, pesticide, hormone, antibiotic laden etc. etc. "foods" is like letting "No unclean thing enter" our Temple.

I believe that the diseases we suffer from today are DIRECTLY linked to our diets, lack of fresh air, water, sunshine, sleep, exercise, healthy relationships, healthy thoughts & beliefs.

I do not buy into the popular modern myths that we consider to be "truth" today. I do not believe that all of the "normal" & common ailments that civilized nations suffer from are normal. I do not believe that we are "victims" of disease. I believe in the "host theory" not the "germ theory".

I believe that health is our birthright and that we have it based on the degree to which we keep and follow the laws of health. Exceptions would include what we are innocently exposed to. The diets, drugs, chemicals we were fed in-vetro & as children. But I KNOW that the body with it's God given abilities can heal itself when the basic principles & laws of health are applied.

So there it is! I AM NOT PERFECT all the time. But, just like with the Gospel, I am working on it! :)

Ok, so, here are MY reasons for not eating animal products:

1. It is not NATURAL TO ME to look at any animal and want to kill it. Let alone drain its blood, peel off it's skin, rip it open, empty its organs. And least of all...eat it. But when I look at a peach tree, or strawberry patch, bananas or watermelon I DO!!!!!!


2. In MY natural observation and common sense of things I see that all mammals drink the milk of their mothers until ALL of their teeth come in and then they're done! No other grown mammals drink milk. Not to mention..no other mammal drinks the milk from another mammals. :/

3. All animal products do NOT contain FIBER which is ESSENTIAL for our looong colons. Thus clogging us up & resulting in slow removal of rotting flesh creating foul breath & gases (eww!) & leading to disease.

4. All animal products contain CHOLESTEROL which is NOT a nutritional REQUIREMENT. Our livers make ALL the cholesterol we need..any extra from an animal the body lines our arteries with & may cause Heart Disease.

5. All animal products are high in FAT. Fruits & Vegetables have the perfect ratios of Carbohydrates, Proteins, & Fats.....because they were CREATED THAT WAY to be PERFECT for Man.

6.Milk products contain CASEIN which is very difficult for our pancreas and livers and kidneys & is the protein which has been PROVEN to cause cancer & diabetes. (Read the China Study.) And is linked to causing among many other things: Arthritis, Osteoporosis, Acne, Infections, Allergies, Asthma, Cysts, and on and on and on..

7. Because of our "modern" influence on third world countries & our growing demand for flesh & animal products we are destroying & polluting our planet & oceans to feed these animals. Not to mention that with the food we grow for animals we could feed every single mouth on this planet! I could go on an on about this....

And lastly,

8. I was further convinced after searching the Scriptures on what GOD thinks about it. I realized God's original diet for man was fruits & vegetables (Genesis 1:29) I learned that yes, if in times of lack for food, famine etc. we could use animals. But that He wants us to use them sparingly, meaning..to SPARE them if we can. And BEST of all...to ME...it is PLEASING to Him that they should NOT BE USED! (D&C 89) My children are proof that I don't need to eat animals nor any of their by products to be healthy.

They should be free too! I feel great compassion for animals & their sufferings. My heart hurts thinking about that..I hope someday we will look back on this injustice and think, "How could we have done that??"

We have been lied to by those who gain to profit from us. (I could go on and on about this too..) There ARE "Conspiring men in the last days" led by the one who wants to destroy us in ANY way he can. We may not be doing drugs, alcohol, coffee, tea etc. but a lousy DIET addicts us too! It affects EVERYTHING! Our mood, the way we feel, depresses us, makes us sick and can bring us down so that we CANNOT SERVE GOD!

That is my wish. Eating healthy is plain & SIMPLE. It's as easy as biting into an apple or 2 or 5 or 7!

It is my wish to help others to see how simple it can be. It is my wish to help others see for themselves & help themselves prevent the extremely high cost of illnesses & diseases which cause SO MUCH SUFFERING. People are doing it every day! Healing from the "scary" diseases. Healed. Not just in remission.

I am doing it too!

I know that what I say is not popular. I know that doctors will say you are crazy. I know that it is difficult to break traditions. I know that it is difficult in our society to be "different." But...it's getting easier every day as more and more people are changing to create a healthier future for themselves and for our children & planet. I believe we can do it together!

I am sorry for friends I have lost because of my sharing. I am sorry for friends who have blocked me. I am sorry for friends who think I am judging THEM. I am sorry if I have offended. But at the same time I make no apology for stating truths. I make no apology for defending the defenseless. I believe that what we are doing to animals is wrong. I respect you, my friends of different beliefs, lifestyles & opinions. I learn from you. I suppose my true friends feel the same way about me. :)

I WANT to be 100% healthy in EVERY WAY as I want to be 100% righteous and 100% loving! But I know that no one is perfect or ever will be in this life...

Today is a good day! I've picked myself up again & am trying again to eat my best. I feel like crap when I don't. No matter how many times I try to pretend like it's okay..No matter how many times I tell myself it doesn't matter. No matter how many times I let the negative thoughts talk me out of doing what's right. No matter how many times I let myself forget about how DESPERATELY I want to heal completely.

If I die, it will not be because of the 'diet' but because of my past. My many poor choices. My broken heart..My pains...and mostly because it would be God's will..


Anyway, I felt very strongly today to share this very long story with you..idk..I hope maybe you can understand me a little better. I want to be of any help to you. Please know that I am here for you.


With love ~

RMM

I am SO grateful!!

September 29, 2011
 

I have 4 children ages 16, 13, 11, & 7.



I have been doing a typical raw food diet since Oct. 2008.


My children eat a mostly vegan diet since 1994 when I was pregnant with my first child & sick with constant UTI's. My friend told me about the book "Fit For Life" and I immediately read it in 3 days, threw out all of the crap in my kitchen and within a week I lost 10 lbs. my UTI went away and I have NEVER had one since!


My diet was a junk food vegan diet for sure! Everything was free game as long as it didn't have meat or dairy.


Then as years went by....we started including fish, chicken and occasionally a little bit of basically everything....


What happened?? Well, on July 20, 2008 my expiration date came up!


My body kept wanting to pass out...I did all I could to stay conscious...my heart would race...I had numbness in my face, arms, legs. Chest pain. I had a cold foot and a hot foot...I was dying...and the doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong. They just gave me anxiety meds and sent me home.


I later learned that I had Lychen Schelorsus, high cholesterol, and dangerously low levels of cortisol.



I read Breakthrough by Suzanne Somers and doped up on $$$$$Supplements....I went to $$$$$doctor after doctor, $$$$$$snake oil scamers after snake oil scamers, more $$$$$$, then a neurologist who had an acupuncturist in her office who put me on more $$$$$supplements...



By October I was looking for an herb my acupuncturist told me to take called Eleuthero. I went all over town to every health food store and herb shop there was and NO ONE had any??



I ended up at a place I'd never been to before and a delightful, radiant woman asked if she could help me. I told her I was looking for Eleuthero. She told me that they sold no herbs or supplements and asked me what was wrong? I told her what was going on and she said, "Well, I had Hodgkin's Lymphoma and I healed myself with food."



Seriously...at that moment it was like the Heaven's opened and a surge of electricity went through my body and told me that that was it! This was it! Food. Plain and simple. :)


She gave me Paul Nisson's book "Raw Life" and I became raw overnight!



10 months 100% and then emotional/family issues had me eating cooked again in July 2009.



I have since then been STRUGGLING to stay raw. On the wagon....Off the wagon...over and over. Always CRAVING bread, pasta, rice...carbs.



I did a 60 day juice/water feast in March of 2010. Only THEN did I start to see improvements in the Lychen Schlerosus...but I developed an eating disorder towards the end of the feast. I still had to cook food for my family and I started to chew and spit food. I KNEW I had to stop the feast...sadly...



After that it was backed to eating bread, pasta, rice and trying desperately to be raw....



This last attempt to stay raw started in August 2011. I didn't want to keep track of the day because I was tired of counting days...


I don't even know how I found out about 80/10/10??? (I'm so bummed about that..) But I think I've now been doing it for 4-5 weeks.



The greatest thing has been the amount of detoxing. I never experienced that before. Detoxing with ENERGY! I am also seeing improvement in the LS!!


But...the topic of this discussion was suppossed to be my KIDS, so I will explain..


When I would make all of the HFRV gourmet meals my kids would gag..except for some of the treats I would make.


They didn't like vinegar, they didn't like the nuts, they didn't like seaweed, they didn't like any of the supplement/superfoods, they didn't like a lot of the vegetables.......



But they LOVED fruit!


Hmmmmm????? Why didn't I PAY ATTENTION to that?????????



My oldest son would pig out on bananas and other fruit and I would be all worrying that he was getting too much sugar, that he would be acidic, that he wasn't getting enough nutrients, etc. etc. etc.!!!!!!!!!!



I sat him down the other day and said, "I was wrong...eat ALL THE FRUIT YOU WANT!!!"


How could I have been so disconnected to Nature??


All of the things I complained about are now gone:


"It's too hard."

"It takes too much time and effort."

"It takes too much planning ahead."

"It's so expensive to buy all these nuts and seeds and supplements and super foods."

"Why are so many of the raw food gurus not eating 100% anymore and are now using animal products?????"

Why don't they LOOK better??"

"Why I am not thin?"

"Why can't I stay raw?"

"Why am I not cured yet?"

"Why am I craving carbs??"

I GET IT NOW!!!!


I should have observed my children better...they KNEW it all along! :)


I am SOOOOOOO grateful to have read 80/10/10!

I am SOOOOOOO grateful to Dr. Graham.

I am SOOOOOOO grateful!!