I've started this blog to chronicle my journey towards optimum health and wellness. I want to write about what I learn and experience for both my benefit and the benefit of others.
You should also know - I'm five months pregnant.
This all started a few days ago at my prenatal appointment when I realized that in just 5 short months, I had gained nearly 35 pounds. My midwife assured me that because I am eating well and exercising daily, that this is just my body's way of being pregnant. However, I've always felt that there is a seldom-chosen, somewhat more complicated but infinitely better way to live than the way we learn to from mass media, health officials and popular culture. There has to be.
For the past few years, I have been experimenting with different ways to eat, exercise, relax and live my life. I've taught myself the art of eating so I feel good. I've taught myself to love running. I've fallen in love with nature and the peace it brings me.
Now that I have a life growing inside me, a human that I already love with all my heart, who depends on me with all of his, I'm humbled. I also feel an incredible sense of responsibility to live in a way that gives him the best start possible, and that will also teach him by example the most healthy and successful way to live his life. I don't want to look back and say that my son grew up to be overweight, sedentery, stressed-out or altogether unhealthy because of the example I gave him. I especially don't want him to say that. So here goes...
First Exploration: The Raw Food Movement
Stay tuned. :)
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