Weigh-in day

                    I added my ticker and I'm ready to rock and roll! I got up today wondering what I was going to do about this battle of the bulge. I know that is on so many of our minds everyday. I hate the word diet though, I wish to never say that on this blog. Living a healthy life doesn't have to be all about restriction and starving yourself. I never have proclaimed I wanted to be stick thin, I just want to be healthy. With this said on to my journey. 
I just found out from my Dr. I have a severe deficiency of Vitamin D.  This causes a whole host of problems I found out. Now I'm on a weekly dose of 50,000 units of vitamin D. I have to do this for 3 months and reevaluate blood work. I'm so happy with this discovery, it has been a bad year of feeling really sick and down. I'm hoping that within the next few weeks my body responds to this and I'm feeling like my old self.
I'm going to do all I can to inform myself on nutrition. With a vegan diet this is so crucial. I just didn't realize the importance of some of the vitamins found in foods. I always thought it was funny when people would say food is fuel for the machine called your body, I thought it was a bunch of health-nut-propaganda but I'm the fool here. They was right all this time. Here I thought I was doing my body a service by adhering to a strict vegan diet and all along I was going about it the wrong way.
I really want people to be informed of the potential risk of doing a vegan diet without knowledge. Yes we get all gun-ho about our animal rights but dont forget without a healthy us they dont have a chance. So the challenge for this vegan this week is to find out all I can about proper vegan nutrition. I will log what i find and my opinions on them.

~Shawn~