A new beginning!

Well it has been over a year since I have posted here, so sad to say the least. I was on a roll from Feb to April of last year. I was doing so well in February and March, but the wheel started to fall of in early to mid April. I was not feeling well, kidney stones, hemorrhoids and just very lethargic. SO I stopped being raw, and went back to my old ways and old habits! The saddest thing about me giving up is looking at myself today and just wondering, if I had had just a little more perseverance, where I might be today!
After giving up in April, and going back to my old habits, I managed to balloon back up past my previous high weight and managed to hit 350 lbs. by June of 2011 I was miserable, my cloths didn't fit, I had no energy and all I wanted to do was sit on the couch and watch TV, or play on the internet. My blood sugar was up and dangerously close to being classified a type II diabetic, my blood pressure was usually in the stage II hypertension range. I knew something had to change and I knew this time it had to be different! I had tried three times previously to go raw, to get my self healthy, and it didn't work and I could not get it done, so this time had to be different. I had to really figure out what worked for me!
Every time I went raw in the past I would do lots of smoothies, lots of dehydrated goodies, lots of FAT! So starting off in July I just tried to make as good of choices as I could. Then I got back on YouTube and started looking for ways to help control my sugar. As fate would have it, I cam across, this crazy quack from the land down under named Harley Johnston aka Durianrider. The first video I watched I was like this guy is a nut job! Laying on the ground with some fruit peels beside him saying he ate to much fruit and got diabetes. I almost stopped the video and moved on but something told me to watch it out, so I did. My life changed that night, I watched a bunch of Harley's videos that evening, and I started to get the whole sugar myth being perpetuated about sugar causing diabetes. I had always heard about LFRV (Low Fat Raw Vegan) when I was trying to be raw, but every time I heard about it someone was bad mouthing it. So I always wrote it off as quackery. But here was this Aussie, that was fit as can be screaming at me that you will never succeed if you do not get enough fresh sweet fruit! So I started to try and up my fruit intake and lower some of my fat intake.
Then August 7th 2011we were having birthday parties for two of my children at their great grandmothers nursing home, my in-laws brought pizza as they normally do, you know the meat and cheese kind from Pizza Hut MMMMMM I ate a few pieces and we brought some of the left over pizza home. I ate two more pieces for dinner, then I went to watch some more Durianrider you tube videos, then it happened, I saw the video where he shows the cattle lined up waiting for the bolt gun to their heads! I saw the fear in their eyes! Then I watched as one of these cows that was hoisted in the air by one back leg and dripping blood from it's slashed neck, I watched in horror as the butcher was skinning the head of this animal as it screamed in agony! Can you imagine being skinned alive?!?! I mean a bolt gun to the head did not kill this animal, then the slashed jugulars bleeding profusely, still has not removed the life from this animal, and then the butcher starts skinning this animals head while it was still alive and fully conscious! You know who the real animal in the video is, the human beings causing that harm! Then I had to find more, I had to find if this was the norm or just an isolated case? Well it is not isolated, video after video after video is out there to prove that fact! Yep the last animal product I consumed was those last two pieces of PH pizza!
So how and what am I doing today a little over a month later? Well I am eating a Vegan diet that is mostly fruits and veg. I have not went completely raw, I am eating raw most days for Breakfast and lunch, and typically a cooked vegan dinner. How do I feel, really good, better than I ever did on my high fat raw attempts! Can I keep this up this time? Well always before it was about me, and my health, today it is mostly about the animals! There is no reason for this cruelty to happen except taste. Animals do not need to be eaten, it is not a requirement of the human body to consume animal flesh, we are actually herbivores, not omnivores and certainly not carnivores!
I have much more I would like to write but I am bringing this days blog to a close for now, If you are watching go ahead and drop me a line to say I am watching and I want to see more! :)

Blessings, Peace and Love!
Scott