The Decision

Hi Everyone!!

My name is Marlana, I am 25 years old. This is the first time ever I have blogged so whoever reads this don't judge I write like I talk so my grammar sucks!! I am engaged to my best friend Justin, 28 years old, we have been together for almost 7 years. And last night he made a decision that will affect the rest of our lives. We have decided to change our entire diets to be vegans! It is going to be a very BIG change and I would like to blog our journey changing over. The main reason we are doing this is to be healthier. Justin's background story is that everyone on his mom's side is diabetic. His mom, grandpa, both aunts and uncle. He wants to fight the odds and make sure that he doesn't become diabetic also. Most of them who are diabetic are also overweight. His grandfather two years ago was diagnosis with lung cancer and has gone through chemo and is in remission (thank goodness). My side on my dad's both my dad and grandma are diabetics and on my moms side has heart disease. So after watching on Netflix Forks over Knives it really opened up our eyes. To be able to know what we are eating and how we are eating is killing us years before we should and how changing to a simple plant based diet could reverse the damage we have done so far and help prevent us from future damage. I was so SHOCKED that Justin wanted to do this because he drinks soda like its water everyday all day and we have a very unhealthy diet especially with us eating pizza every Wednesday. This will be a new journey and it will be tough I think but as long as Justin and I do it together with the support of my best friend Marissa I think it will be better for us in the long run. For this week we are doing our research figuring out what we will be changing into. Plus this week is Thanksgiving so it would be extremely tough to change. We are going to finish as much as we can of the "bad" food in our house and whatever we don't use we will donate it to family or a shelter. I will keep everyone updated hopefully weekly depending on school. Thank you for reading!