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Just as a comparison, on the left is me a little over a year ago on the standard American diet. On the right is today after a year on a whole foods, plant based diet. Down 53 pounds, reversed diabetes and high blood pressure, no more oxygen needed, and pain level dramatically decreased. I can now walk short distances and ride my exercise bike 30 minutes every day. Plants for the win! If you don’t think it matters what you eat, think again! From in a wheelchair, on oxygen, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and chronic severe pain, with an estimated two years to live to no oxygen, all blood work normal, walking, exercising and feeling fantastic! If you have any doubt that animal products are the root of all illness just ask. I will be happy to help you transition!
I have not written anything in quite a while. Life, and the holidays, got in the way and the blog was not priority. I am still 100% plant based, vegan and committed to protecting my health, the animals, and the planet.
I haven’t lost a lot more weight since I last posted, I hit the 50 pound loss mark in September and then hit a plateau through the holidays where I wavered up and down a few pounds for months. I finally broke the plateau and lost another 4 pounds last week so my total loss so far is 54 pounds.
I hope to get back to more vegan mentoring and coaching so if anyone needs someone to guide them through choosing the healthiest diet for yourself and the planet just let me know. I am always available to help. Gloria Vester Life and Vegan Coaching
Here are some helpful books to help you make the transition that will change your life, give you your health back and provide the best possible future.
Plants for the win!
Today is day 208 of being fully plant based, vegan. No animal products of any kind. I have not updated everyone in a while so here is the latest.
Total weight lost to date is 43 pounds.
Blood sugar level this morning was 65, which is actually lower than normal.
No more need for supplemental oxygen. My O2 level stays in a safe range without it.
Blood pressure continues to be in a healthy normal range.
Pain level continues to decrease.
Walking and exercise increasing slowly so as to not over tax my body which was not able to move for so long. Daily steps / exercyle totaling 5000 – 6000 steps.
Doing housework for the first time in at least ten years.
I am so very thankful and grateful that I found out the truth about the dangers of meat and dairy products and what they do to our health. Too many people don’t know, or don’t want to know. But it is time people learned the truth that has been hidden behind big industry lies for far too long. Wake up and learn! Take control of your health. It is not difficult to give up meat and dairy. There are plenty of alternatives today. The plant based market is growing by huge percentages. I have had many people ask me how to go plant based and everyone I have helped has seen dramatic improvements in their health and chronic conditions in only a few short weeks. If you want to be healthy and live a life of freedom from medications do what everyone is learning – go plant based!
If you want help getting started on a plant based lifestyle feel free to email or message me. I am more than happy to help. I want everyone to know the freedom this lifestyle brings and the abundant health!
In my books I explain how overcoming any obstacle and achieving anything you want to accomplish is possible by changing your mind – your thinking. That applies to pretty much everything you want or need to do. The only obstacle to achieving anything is yourself. As long as you think you can’t, you won’t. I have proved that in so many ways, time and time again, as I have overcome one obstacle after another. Whether it was financial or health related, no matter what life throws at me, I continue to rise above it and create something better. This post is about my latest victory and how easy it can be for anyone.
Whenever I share my story of healing and weight loss with anyone their immediate reaction is “that’s great, but I could never give up meat and cheese”. That statement just shows a total lack of understanding of food as well as our unwillingness as a people to accept the truth and acknowledge that what we have been taught since birth is wrong. We have been lied to by the meat and dairy industries, as well as all government sponsored health organizations, in support of the meat and dairy lobby. The basic, simple truth that everyone needs to know and understand is that animals are not food! It is so easy to go vegan once you stop thinking of animals as food. Food grows from the ground. It was not artificially conceived and born to be killed. The flesh and bodily secretions of animals is NOT FOOD! How hard is that to comprehend? Put two and two together. People all say “I love animals” while they are eating them right in front of you. The word “meat” was invented by big money interests to create the illusion that we are not eating other living, breathing, caring beings. We have been brainwashed into cognitive dissonance, to not recognize that the items we are eating are not food, they are animals. All the flavor, texture, and taste you crave can be achieved with plant based options. The flesh and secretions of animals only tastes the way it does because of the seasonings and cooking processes.
Do your research. I don’t expect you to believe me, even though I have gone from a wheelchair and on oxygen, to dancing on the beach, losing 40 pounds, reducing my cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar to normal, and having more energy than I can ever remember having, in just a few short months, just by discontinuing the eating of animal flesh and secretions. There are plenty of scientific studies, backed by some of the most renown universities and medical establishments in the world, to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that eating animals and their secretions is unhealthy and is killing us and the planet. Meat and dairy are the primary contributing factors to heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and cancer.
Here are some well known studies, not funded by meat and dairy industries, or by animal rights groups. Do your research and think for yourself. Don’t believe the lies you have been told all your life by the meat and dairy interests. This is just a few links. Do your own research and you will see that eating animal products promotes the leading causes of death in the world and that by eating plant based you can prevent or cure those diseases. When reading articles be sure you check out who backed, or funded, the research. If the article is pro-meat or pro-dairy you will find it was funded by industry giants that are only concerned about their bottom line, not your health.
National Institutes of Health:
Nutritional Update for Physicians: Plant-Based Diets
Healthy eating may be best achieved with a plant-based diet, which we define as a regimen that encourages whole, plant-based foods and discourages meats, dairy products, and eggs as well as all refined and processed foods.
Nutrition Facts.org from the book How Not to Die:
Plant-based Diets
A significant convergence of evidence suggests that plant-based diets may help prevent and even reverse some of the top killer diseases in the Western world and in some cases be more effective than medication and surgery.
Harvard School of Public Health
Healthy plant-based diet linked with substantially lower type 2 diabetes risk
Consuming a plant-based diet—especially one rich in high-quality plant foods such as whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts, and legumes—is linked with substantially lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
The Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine
Plant-Based Diets Promote Health
Science supports a low-fat, plant-based diet for optimal health. The Academy for Nutrition and Dietetics (AND), the nation’s largest organization of nutrition experts, states that “vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the lifecycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes.”
American Diabetes Association
Preparing to Prescribe Plant-Based Diets for Diabetes Prevention and Treatment
“I have seen people in this practice improve their diabetes control by avoiding animal products altogether.” Follow with the question, “Would you like to know more about this meal-planning approach?”
Watch these documentaries, they will change your life. Thousands, if not millions, have adopted the plant based lifestyle after watching these health documentaries.
I am living proof of the healing effects of a plant based diet. The improvement in my health in only a few months is beyond amazing! My blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol are all way down, in the normal ranges. My doctor thinks I will be off all my medications within six months, if not sooner.
I have lost 36 pounds so far. I still have a ways to go with the weight loss but now I know I will reach my goals and be healthier than I have ever been in my life.
The first image is of me in early December, at my sister’s funeral, in a wheelchair on supplemental oxygen. Everyone at the funeral thought for sure I would be the next one in the family to die. They had to help me from place to place. I could not walk and breathe at the same time and the pain was so bad it was unbearable. I had no energy at all.
Below that is me on July 1, dancing on the beach in Galveston, after only 4 months of a plant based diet, with absolutely no meat or dairy products. I still find it hard to believe the transformation sometimes. I did more walking that day than I have done in 15 years and was still full of energy!
Before going plant based
You owe it to yourself to watch these documentaries. Do it for your health and your family!
PlantPureNation
What the Health
Forks Over Knives
If you would like help, coaching or mentoring to make the transition to turn your life around feel free to contact me. I love helping others get healthy and learn how to live a joyful life!
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As a fairly new vegan I try to not rub the most hideous images of animal cruelty in factory farms in people’s faces. Be kind, be gentle, ease people into it. But this is my testimonial. Six months ago I would never have thought in a million years I would be vegan. But one single post on Facebook changed forever how I look at food. If I can help just one other person make this connection between food and animals I will have succeeded. That one post was a picture of a cow on the slaughterhouse floor, chained by one leg, on its back, crying and begging for its life as the vicious slaughter was about to take place. The caption was “Every hamburger starts with an animal begging for it’s life.”
That image and that caption never left my mind. It kept replaying over and over. Suddenly when I saw an ad for a burger, which I had always dearly loved, I did not see a burger. I saw that cow begging for it’s life. Everyone in the world needs to make the connection between the food they eat and the horrible cruelty the animals endure.
In today’s world with the food technology we have there is absolutely no reason to continue killing animals. We have enough plant based meat alternatives that have the same texture and taste as meat and can be cooked into the same dishes. There is no need to give up your favorite foods. You can still have your comfort foods. Just use a plant based alternative that does not involve killing an animal.
I continue to be amazed at how fantastic I feel and how fast the weight is falling off. I have dieted my entire life and it was always a struggle. Not eating plant based. I was afraid I had maybe gained weight this week because I ate way too many vegan tamales and a huge Beyond meat burger with all the fixings. I got on the scale this morning and had lost another 1.5 lbs. 247 amazes me! 32 pounds in 4 months. Cholesterol, blood sugar, blood pressure all down to normal. I have gone from dragging myself from chair to chair to walking at least 5000 steps per day and practically jogging around the office. Everyone at work is amazed at the transformation in me.
Please, please, please do your research and choose to leave animals off your plate! For the sake of your health, for the sake of the planet, and most of all for the sake of the animals!
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