The Beginning

Today.. I am just like you.. Today my behavior is very similar to what you do everyday.. Today I am just like every selfish human..I eat meat..I am not very green and I do not care enough for my body. But Today I have decided to make a change. Today starts the beginning of a life time commitment. And you are invited to follow along...and perhaps join the change. This is not going to be easy.. It's not going to be fun... Being a hero is never fun it is never easy or else every would be a hero...but my one act my one commitment.. my one sacrifice is going to make me a hero.. In the days to come I will be weaning my way into a vegetarian lifestyle, I am going to be attempting organic, I am going to try all natural cleaning....This is going to be journey with ups and downs full of successes and failures. I'm ready are you?

This journey is half started.. Sadly I have decided to write about the journey that has begun but lets catch you up to speed. In April I read Skinny Bitch by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin, I was inspired and became vegetarian almost immediately following reading the book.. Well this was also the most stressful time of my life as I graduated college and got married and 45 days later vegetarian went back to omnivore. Even though I went back to meat the thoughts had not left me and I eat less and less meat and more and more veggies. I also decided I wanted to go more green. I have been recycling but little more than that. I recently have been in the process of switching all my cleaning products to "green" products and using a multi purpose cleaner instead of different cleaners for the bathroom and kitchen. Now I still had all this in the back of my mind.. should i try again being vegetarian.. I felt better.. life is less stress full.. but I hadn't made a commitment...

Well A friend calls me up and says Rory Freedman is coming to talk at UNCW you wanna go see her with me? and Sept 15 I walk in the doors to see the author of an amazing book talking to a group of college students..telling her story of why and how she became vegetarian..how she struggled to make it and what drove her.. It was nice to hear her background her reason her purpose.. After her talk I was able to meet her and have her sign my copy of "Skinny Bitch" and she asked my story.. I told her.. she said set a date and wean your way into it.. Get prepared and go for it. She suggested Oct 1st.. I agreed and We took a picture and I'm sure she forgot me as she moved down the line of others eager to meet her. But Oct 1st stuck with me.. So I got home and went to www.goveg.org and ordered a free vegetarian starter kit so it would get here about my 2nd week of being vegetarian.. And here we are today.. I'm just like you.. Still a meat eater. And I am 1 week 4 days until V-Day. And the adventure begins...