I did it!

I did it! I completed a whole year as a [almost] complete vegan! This year I will be a full-blown vegan for sure. But I was darn close this last year, well at least in comparison to anything else I've ever done in my life in regards to eating choices. Even with my weaknesses of crackers and coke (I like bread! And I drink a coke about once a month), and carbs in general, I feel great. In fact, I feel better than I've felt in many many years. In 2010 I turned 40. But I had a 1/4 of the sickness and 4 times as much energy on any given day, than I had at any other time in my thirties! This diet (er. … new lifestyle) works!

Just ask my wife. She'll tell you. She's known me since I had to stop mountain climbing at age 28 and get a real job. We married and for ten years she's watched me struggle with food, trying every different kind of diet, excersize programs like Slim in Six, and a variety of other ideas. Only, this year was the best I've had in a decade. I grew up getting sick, some years at much as once a month. I was a regular in the Walgreens pharmacy isles. I sneezed my head off and downed the flu drugs. But this last year, 2010, I was sick a grand total of four times! That's four. And each time I was over it in less than three days. For me that is like being born again! This diet (er… new lifestyle) works! I'm sold. And this year I have some new resulutions: