- frequently were statements like, "I felt better in 48 hours my appitite just leveled off and I've never even thought about eating refined sugar
Married housewives looking real sex girls dating since." So that makes it look like you got over sugar in two days, and there I was two years later, still wanting chocolate and ice cream. I ran into a lot of people talking like this, about substituting nutritional yeast for cheese and never looking back etc. You are the very first vegan-identified person I've encountered who's said that two years is barely the beginning. I'm sure you know more people, having walked that path for decades. You can understand how I didn't initially go there given the "over sugar in two days" anecdote. The message in cookbooks, dietary guides, vegan websites etc. is often "after a few months of being veg everything becomes habit and it gets easier." Maybe it's where I set the bar of "easy". I'm following the blog of a woman doing the Gersen detox to battle cancer, given that the chemo/surgery survival rate is dismal for case. It's incredibly challenging to keep up with, but they say "it gets easier". Anything can become the new normal, we're adaptable creatures. I think there's a perspective on what you define as a struggle, the expectations you set. I could set my mind to accept the cravings indefinately in lieu of the health benefits, assuming I find a diet that keeps me physiy for more than two years. But I find that struggling with cravings creates an emotional imbalance which is just as signifigant to health. This emotional imbalance could manifest itself as being judgemental of others, getting preachy or self-congratulatory. I just felt deprived all the time, so I had to convince myself that the deprivation was good and it was a lot of mental work to keep that up. I'd eliminated all sugar and wheat from my diet for two years prior to becoming veg, but became veg after the high amount of animal protein I was consuming on the above mentioned diet was starting to affect my liver after two years. I'll know I've found the right diet when I pass the year in physical and emotional balance.
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Wish things didn't end the way they did. I think and worry about you a lot. Hope you are ok.