Well hi! Welcome to my first blog ever, called, "Please Pass the Vegan?" I am starting off this blog honest. Until this afternoon I had no idea what a vegan was. I thought they were the animal lovers as displayed in SATC's fashion week segment when Samantha gets red paint dumped on her fur coat and only ate vegetables.  Along this journey, however long it takes, I will be researching information about a no meat diet and everything that comes with it in my point of view. So, let's get some brief info what led me here tonight.

I came home from my awesome church, PHCC, and my husband was sleeping still from working so hard overnight at Target. I was bored and desperately hoping Netflix would update and I could watch season 2 of Downton Abbey. Loving documentaries, I came across one called, Vegucated. It's about a conformed vegan who places a Craigslist ad for 3 meat, egg, and dairy lovin' people to do a 6 week study to learn and try becoming Vegans. These people did medical tests and went shopping and ended up learning about how animals were treated. I wish it had a warning, I saw the most disgusting acts preformed on chickens, cows, pigs, and the baby forms of them.

"Ahhhhhh!"
I gagged, screamed, cried and winced.

Not only was I shocked from that I was learning how bad meat is for your health!

Animal protein including dairy is so bad for you. It spikes your cholesterol, chances of cancer and tumors, diabetes, heart disease and so on... Crazy right!?

Now that you know what shook me up here's my bio.

My name is Desiree. I'm 28 years old. I've struggled with anxiety since I was born, just enough to keep me in my toes. I recently became ill with high anxiety, panic attacks, and depression. I am fatigued all the time and sit 30 odd hrs a week basically doing light cleaning waiting for guests to wander into the salon I'm at. I get home and eat out with my hubby and sit in front of the tv every night. I don't work out anymore. I do Zumba but I now work when my favorite instructors offer classes.  I am 5'5" and weigh (oh my) somewhere in the 240ish lb range.  Yes, obease and i cannot tell you the last time I weighed myself.  I have an over eating problem that wears on my mind all the time. My favorite foods are bageles and cream cheese, pasta, PB, cookies, Coldstone Ice cream, cheese pizza, fried sesame chicken, sliced beef brisket, and the mouth watering medium cooked ribeye steak.
I just got married to Juan who is 100% Texican ;) and the best cook! (Not always the most healthy) He's 13 yrs older than I am and I am concerned for his health too. He's a skinny fat. He looks in great shape but who knows what's going on in the inside.
I have a Scandinavian back ground  and a Grandma who loved anything processed aside from her meat and potato diet.
I have a growing list of allergies and sensitivities. Let's list them shall we? Lactose intolerance, walnuts, anything colored blue, green, purple, MSG, adhesive, trees, pollens, molds, any shedding animal, dryer sheets, hydrocodone, and ibuprofen!   When you look at the food I can't have it's anything processed with preservatives, anything containing dairy; milk,whey, cheese, malt, and nothing with said food colors.  What does that leave to eat for an average person? Not much.

My goal is to start eating to live. I'm doing this to hopefully rid myself of unwanted fat, future health problems along with the current, and to teach others around me. The other benefits? Not contributing to the animal abuse and saving the environment too.  I'm going to do my best with baby steps. Wish me all the luck in the world! I'm going to need it!

-d