you would think I killed someone
ok spoiler alert, you be glad to know, I did not kill someone, or commit a crime, but that is what it felt like with the reaction I got when telling friends and family.
So, for those of you who know, I have a podcast for those who do not it is called "Talk Till the Cowzers Come Home" and is available on Spotify and Apple podcasts (yes cheap plug) but the name relates ironically to this newsletter, I've just realized, which I will explain.
Anyhow, the podcast started surrounding my journal as a marketing tool, to speak to people around each chapter of the journal, and they were short and to the point and opened up discussions between me and my guests about ways to journal, etc.
so for season 2, I wanted to be educated a little more, and my guests ranged from ultra athletes to make-up artists, to holistic healers and then there was Shelley Smith, a plant-based PT who works around plant-based foods and the benefits of them. Or so I thought, what I learned was the reason Shelley started eating plant-based foods was that when diagnosed with cancer she changed her whole diet and ate herself healthy.
I'm not gonna lie, she sold it to me, so right away gave it a go, just to see how it went. Two weeks into it, I felt better than I have in so long, with sleep, energy, and digestive system plus felt I was eating good food again, and felt content never overly full as before.
So for me, it was/is a success, yes there is a lot of adjusting and getting used to, and becoming more aware of food choices, but that comes with any change.
But on telling my friends and family well, it was a look of complete shock, some strange comments and one even asking, what has happened to you?
The reaction was not that surprising, as I knew they were reacting from a place of self, perhaps the thought of them giving up meat would seem impossible, to have to change the traditional meals they would have been used to, or disrupt that shopping list, or take away option at the weekend?
"You've changed" was my favourite, whereas before I would of worried and overthought this comment and made me doubt decisions upon hearing it, but now I embraced it, yes I have and am happy about it, for this change or choice has me feeling good, and why would I stop that?
How long it will last, well that I do not know but its a choice yet again.
So perhaps it is alcohol you have given up, or stopped being around toxic friends, or created boundaries to certain people, saying No and not allowing someone to treat you the way they have for years, these are all ways in which only you can make that choice, and if it makes you feel better then why should you let anyone make that decision for you?
Some food for thought (so to speak)
And the podcast name, well it was loosely related to my surname and the old saying, talk till the Cows come home, which they won't be, to my home anytime soon at least.
As always,
thanks for reading.
Marcus.