Nice to Meet You!
- Lily Green
- Nov 20, 2015
- 4 min read
Time to get glowing…the green, peaceful way!!
My name is Lily, I've been vegan for 3 years now and i am so excited to be finally launching this brand new vegan site to hopefully inspire, connect and share the amazing perks of this cruelty free lifestyle with vegans and non vegans–young and old– alike. In today’s busy world, we are constantly bombarded with cherry picked, funded 'science' and false information about nutrition and what it means to be healthy… so people like myself used to get caught up in buying a product with the nutritional content of toilet paper, and having no idea of the harm (to other beings and myself) involved.
I am still young, still learning, but one thing is for sure… I am now 18, and a self-confessed fruit pig with no shame and no regrets. Label this lifestyle what you want (deficient, irresponsible, nutrient lacking, dangerous) and GO FRUIT YOURSELF! This planet, the health of the population and the animals ain't got time fo yo judgement ;)
Ever since my teenage years began to demand my attention to my health (ahem..acne, weight fluctuations, stress, being tired all.the.time), I tried everything– acne meds, dieting (SO MANY DIETS), creams, gels. And never did I once get that “healthy glow”.
It never occurred to me that health could be achieved by being…well, healthy.
In my first year of being vegan, the struggle was real, I'll be honest. There were a few hiccups, and acts of carelessness. The one lesson I've learnt throughout this journey as both an ethical and healthy vegan is that EDUCATION IS VITAL. I've discovered that with many other vegans who struggled in the beginning, cheating on non-vegan foods is only easy because you're not fully aware of what your food product really symbolises. You are what you eat. How did this food come to be? I was horrified when I realised the murderous methods of the meat and dairy industry. I thought they were 'killed humanely' and lived on a farm until their time came, just grazing on grass peacefully in a lush meadow. It's what we'd like to believe. And maybe if it weren't for the equally horrific side effects of consuming dietary animal fat and protein I'd be less violenty opposed to such a corrupt industry. There's really no excuses anymore.
After becoming an informed consumer by watching documentaries, speaking to other vegans and reading some hella epic books (all of which I will post on this site!) you can begin to ask yourself the hard questions: was there harm involved just to make this cookie? Is it worth it? Is it worth the damage to my own body as well?
Course the answer is always no! (Plus it's 2015 yo, vegan cookies are EVERYWHERE and they good. They good.)
Anyway, now i’ve been doing everything I can to live more and more ethically, healthily and sustainably– not only to protect the planet, but also to save myself.
I refuse to be part of the percentage of people who suffer from any such lifestyle diseases as cancer, diabetes, heart problems… and I hope to empower many other young and old people to do the same. I’m a teenager, yes. Some nights I would only make it through the leaning tower of textbooks with a block of dairy milk and some jelly snakes as a side dish–without sharing.
But I took it upon myself to do the brave thing and actually put myself first for REAL– my food, my mind, my fitness, my body, my happiness. Now, as a whole, I am truly empowered by this glowing, green and peaceful life to take a stand for something bigger than me, something outside myself.
My vegan journey is continuous….to be glowing, green and peaceful is not a destination in itself, but a lifelong pathway of challenges and delights… it is the relationship you have with your body and your mind, and eventually the planet. I am only 18 years old, but I have been a vegetarian, a vegan, gluten free, sugar free,paleo, grain free, raw, 80:20, CSIRO and have researched every kind of diet, and every kind of lifestyle people attempt in order to find their health, their birthright. You don’t find your health, however. You regain it.
In being so open and experimental, I’ve developed and shaped my own perfect fruity lifestyle (combination of rawtill4, starch solution, high carb low fat) that is MY personal approach to plant based eating. My life itself empowers me, and this site was created to empower YOU. Now get glowing! Your lush green path to glowing, green, peace begins here xxxxx
Glowing Green Peace (formerly Empower Wellness @ wordpress) is a vegan portal aiming to inspire anyone and everyone to thrive on the benefits of a vegan and cruelty free lifestyle on a path to lifelong health and happiness. Thoughts? Comments? Questions? Suggestions? Inspired enough to write for GGP?
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