Originally posted on 30th March 2020
As I’m sure you all agree, with the exception of aches and pains and the failure of our bodies, we are all young at heart. Growing in experiences, failures and new beginnings but remaining our 20 year old self forever. I often worry about developing illnesses of one type or another but these thoughts come and go like all of our thoughts. However, more recently I’ve discovered my body ageing at an alarming rate. I’m developing all kinds of minor aches and masses of fat in various places. I’ve struggled more with lower back pain and struggled to get out of bed. Its fair to say that I’ve had enough of ageing and after falling into vegetarianism, in and out of veganism and enduring the odd long distance bike ride without any training, I’m ready to take on my body and heal. For quite some time now I’ve been aware of the theory that given the right environment the human body can heal from almost anything. I’ve finally, after 40 years of self-inflicted abuse and neglect, decided to actually give it a go see if I can stomach a whole food plant based lifestyle. After almost 40 years I’m finally ready and whilst I write this I’m a few months in I want to record some of my journey and discuss some of my goals and challenges. As I had not planned to document my return to health, I’m not prepared with before and after shots so I’ll have to make do with some random photos I collect along the way.