Welcome to my “homesoil”.
I am pretty sure that I have been fed “crap” my entire life either orally, verbally or visually from the society that I live in. The world today has changed dramatically in the last 50-70 years and not for the greater good. What once applied no longer does.
I have been lied to, manipulated, and forced to eat things that I have been completely unaware of and all in the name of “profit”.
The world has gone mad but things are starting to change thanks to the internet & people power.
Most of us are still in the grip of all the ugly stuff but change is coming.
I created this website so I can track my progress and share what I learn on my journey for the benefit of everyone else.
My biggest goal is to live a long healthy life into my old age and until only recently did I believe this was possible.
I have become a nutritarian and it is amazing how your whole outlook on life changes when you start feeding your body what it needs to function optimally.
Weight loss, energy, calmness, lowered blood pressure are some of the things that have happened to me and I am only just getting started.
I am also experiencing happy thoughts like I used to when I was younger like looking to the future instead of dwelling on the past. I thought that person was long gone but I was wrong.
I now have a burning desire to learn more and share it with the people I care about.
I will never again underestimate how food/drink can affect my life either positively or negatively but there is much more to the story than what we eat like soil erosion, economic collapse, modern toxic chemicals, sustainable energy and more and I will be writing and posting about all those subjects and more in this blog.
I want to live to a ripe old age but more importantly I want to be fit, healthy and active until the day I die. I believe this is possible providing I haven’t ravaged my body beyond repair through the choices I have made over the last 40+ years. Having said that I am humbled by our body’s ability to heal itself when given the right “tools” so it is never too late to start.
It is hard not to preach when you feel passion about something but I feel this way only because of real personal experience and I know other people who understand because it happened to them too.
How did I stumble on this journey? For years I have been concerned about the dangers of processed foods but I did eat them although much less than most people around me. I have continued to search for answers for years but never got too far because of conflicting advice, personal circumstances, lack of money and bouts of depression. So I remained “stuck” like most of us, unhealthy, tired, confused and fed up.
Then I got some time on my hands and started to research different sources from what the mainstream news, magazines, articles, adverts and media were spoon feeding me and things started to change and I began to soak up information like a sponge and began trying to make sense of it all.
The biggest change came about when I watched to film “Forks over Knives”. Overnight I became vegetarian. My energy levels soared. Then four months later I became a “vegan” and my ankles returned. Then I started to tweak what I was already doing and the weight started to shift. Still a long way to go where the pounds are concerned but it doesn’t bother me in the slightest because I went into this lifestyle choice to live longer and the weight loss has become a wonderful by product of that choice. I do “meet” people who are on a similar path to mine who get discouraged when they stop losing weight and I think I would too. For me it’s easy because I just decided I want to get up every morning with enough energy to do the things I want to with my life and I don’t care what size I am because I believe in my body’s natural ability to figure that out for itself providing I give it the right fuel.
Another interest and desire of mine is “growing your own food” which has to go hand in hand with putting the right foods into your body especially if you are on a low income as where else are you going to get non toxic organic vegetables?
Most people think they have to have a garden or an allotment to grow food but that is not strictly true and I want to share another passion of mine by encouraging people to become urban gardeners and I am hoping to share my own urban gardening experiences. I have not been able to do this over the last few years because of circumstances beyond my control but this is going to be the year I change things and share the “how to’s” and “up’s and downs” of my urban garden.
