30 Day Vegan Challenge

Terry Carter

Today I'm going to talk about my 30 Day Plant Based Diet that I'm trying.

As a successful musician you can't perform at a high level if you don't feel good.

Many of you know that I'm big on exercise, eating well, meditating, positive thinking, and reading a lot.

Although lately I haven't been feeling 100%. I wouldn't say that I have felt bad, but I feel like there was some room for improvement.

In attempts to better health I decided to do a 30 day all plant based diet.

This is something that I'm a little scared of. I have eaten meat and dairy my entire life so giving it up, even for 30 days is scary.

Although my diet didn't involve a lot of meat or dairy, mainly chicken or fish with dinner or eggs with my breakfast or milk with my coffee, but I felt like it may have been the thing causing me to feel the way I was.

We also generally tried to avoid red meat and only had it occasionally.

I was watching some videos on Netflix and it started to change the way that I was thinking about meat and dairy.

I high recommend watching these 2 documentaries about food and diet.

The first is called, In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan https://www.netflix.com/title/80097071

The second is called, Forks Over Knives https://www.netflix.com/title/70185045

What is great about this videos is that they have great information and studies on how much food and diet can not only help us feel better, but how it can actually reverse many of the diseases so many people suffer from. Diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, and even cancer.

Another great thing about these videos is that they are not scare tactic videos. They don't try to get to get you to eat a plant based diet by showing tons of animals being mistreated or abused. Matter of fact the Michael Pollan video talks about eating a mostly plant based diet.

I watched both these videos on a Saturday night and decided the very next day to try to go plant based or vegan.

I was nervous to approach my wife about this because, this would essentially change the way we ate. When I mentioned to her that I wanted to try a plant based diet, she didn't say a word, she simply turned around and pulled out 4 books on plant based eating.

She purchased the books a while ago but was actually nervous to talk to me about going to a vegan diet.

To my delight she was totally on board with this diet and even ready like I was to start immediately.

I love the fact that we didn't ease into it or go out and eat a bunch of meat or dairy and then start the diet. It was literally like let's start right now.

We decided to give the plant based diet a 30 day trial and see how we felt. This is very similar to the 30 day sugar free diet we did at the beginning of the year. Here is the vlog on it, https://youtu.be/74Y0FXfSVT4

I'm convinced based on the research that I have done and the experiments I have tried with eating, that this will make me feel better, have more energy and perform at even a higher level.

This whole thing comes down to being successful and you can't be successful if you don't feel well. You have to feel good, be energetic, and you have to put the right things in your body, along with all the other things such as exercise, meditation, and breathing.

So far I feel great. I know that it has only been a few days and sometimes changes are easy at first but can be more of a struggle as time goes on, so let's see how I feel after a week, 2 weeks, a month, or even after 6 months.

I can tell you this, I feel great this week. I feel full after eating a meeal but I don't feel stuffed like you do so many times after eating a big meat based meal.

I highly recommend watching the films that I suggested above and whether they make you change your diet or not, but hopefully they will at least make you think more about the food you put in your body.

The better you treat your body, the better you treat your mind, the more your going to become that better performer, the better songwriter, or whatever your goals are to become a successful musician.

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Terry Carter