Irrational Response

I have always believed that the Whole Food, Plant-Based (WFPB) lifestyle is a journey full of obstacles.  Choices abound, right or wrong, compliant or non-compliant, and what do you do when the world is turned upside-down?

In full transparency, I fell off the wagon.  I’m not proud of it, but it is what it is.  Like an addict, if you have a relapse, own it and get back on the wagon.  I’m owning it and back on, but let me give you context.

This COVID-19 pandemic really threw me for a loop.  I’m working from home with my family all here.  Forced to stay-in-place with limited access to shopping, I had a very irrational response to the pandemic.  I ate.  I ate everything.  I hated hamburgers when I was a meat-eater…I started eating them with a passion!  Every non-compliant food in front of me was consumed.  Not realizing psychologically why I was doing what I was doing, the 19 in COVID-19 became the weight I was putting on.

But that wasn’t it.  My legs started to ache.  My stomach started to protrude, and I hurt everywhere.  I had no energy, my skin looked horrible, and I was miserable.

What the freak was happening to me?

I started to do some soul searching.  How did I completely fall off from where I was and where I wanted to be?

I realized that my response to the pandemic was completely irrational.  What would help defend me against the Corona Virus was the very thing I abandoned.  At the time I should have been doubling-down on the WFPB lifestyle, I was consuming those things that would weaken my defenses.

I caught myself and corrected my failings.

Today is day fourteen of my renewed commitment to the WFPB lifestyle.  Weight isn’t the only measure of health, but in the last two weeks I’ve dropped 10 pounds, my skin is clear, and there is a pep in my step as I walk the dogs and tend to things at home.  I feel great, I look better, and I am happy.

So, if you have fallen off the wagon during this pandemic, I get it.  Don’t beat yourself up.  None of us have been through this type of event before.  The triggered response psychologically may not make a whole lot of sense, but we tend to fall back on what is comfortable.  Fifty plus years of eating a certain way doesn’t just go away…at least not easily.

Do as I did.  Recognize it, own it, and get back on the wagon and move forward with this wonderful and life-changing way of life.  If I can do you, you can do it…and I am here to help.

As is the case with everything today, we are in this together and we need each other more than ever.  I look forward to this journey with each and every one of you!