And we're off! Day 1 - No Pigs

Okay, actually I'm on Day 3 of No Cows, and still trying to set up the "No Problems" parameters. Here's the deal: how often do we know what we WANT to do, yet never quite manage to DO it! If I can't do it 100% I don't want to start. But that's not how life works. I think we ease into change, and only if it works for us. Only if it makes sense to us. I've felt blocked in some areas of my life for about three years. I can say it started right when Mom died, and that's probably partly true, but it goes beyond that. I've always been a consumer, a Super Consumer, even, and it's just not working for me anymore. It's becoming a boring distraction, and that's where the No Problems comes in. Yesterday I had this thought: I bet I would go for a whole year without buying anything unnecessary and still be just fine. Actually I could probably for the rest of my life and be just fine not buying any more unnecessary things. But then the thought comes in: what is unnecessary.

So please allow me to fine tune that for the next week or so - you can join me down the path if you like. How can I even think about not buying anything? I think it's the cow's fault. Or the LACK of cow in my body. I dedicated the next week to not eating any red meat, and while I've gone months at a time without eating any red meat, for some reason when I'm conscious about it this time I can feel some stirrings inside me, and it's not from the heavy meat sitting in my colon. I wanted to start out slowly - eliminate cow, then drop the pig in a week or two, but I decided today to drop the pig as well. So there we go!

Is my decision to stop buying clothes, jackets, shoes and jewelry related to my decision to stop eating cows and pigs? I don't know, but I'm interested enough to keep exploring it and see where I go, see what I discover, and maybe you can walk with me down this path to Health Land. Day One - it's good! Hummus and tabbouleh and whole wheat naan for dinner. Why? Because it sounds good. Pass the lemon juice, please.