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I hope everyone has a wonderful new week and life is treating you all well. I have decided that wheat will be permanently out of my life. It should be tolerable if eaten in moderation, but in order to help prevent future instestinal and tummy issues, I have been told that even the occasion donut has to go, lest I pay for it physically. Same with anything that contains fiber, wheat, garlic, bran, most vegetables (unless they are cooked to death), olives onions and pickles, and most other veggies, including cabbage and anything made from nuts. Apparently my intestines no longer has the ability to process/break down these types of products. I can have all the tender meat and anything low fiber and residue. It's definitely going to be a "new normal" but I got this, enjoying delicious rice flour honey cakes right now!

I just went to get my haircut and there was horse racing on the flat screens all around me (which upset me)but it was ok bc the hair dresser and I got in a discussion about the horse’s treatment, and how many die while racing and from other abuses. At first she wanted to deny that many race horses aren’t treated well and using them for entertainment isn’t why horses are here. She seemed very disconnected to animals even though she said her family raised horses and treated them well. Then a commercial came on for cheese and showed all these happy cows grazing and I told her that’s not how most dairy cows live. I asked her if she knew about factory farming and she told me she really didn’t want to know the ugly truth bc she liked to eat and didn’t want to feel guilty. I told her that vegan cheese is delicious and so is nut milk. I’m glad I could plant a seed but why does it have to be so hard to get ppl to think of animals as deserving and precious in their own right? Even before I went vegan, I had the utmost love for animals. Ppl are just so stuck in their ways of seeing things. Trying to open someone’s mind is so f’n exhausting bc ppl hate change and think if they ignore the truth, they can live happily ever after.