Clean Food Dirty Girl // Whole Food Plant Based Everything
This Isn’t a Diet. This Isn’t a Lifestyle. This Is Your Life. Make Sweet Love To It By Fueling With Plants
I read The Pleasure Trap by Dr. Douglas Lisle in 2009, and it has yet to exit my brain.
Most of the books I read about food cover the science of why eating a nutrient dense diet, full of whole plant foods is so powerful for our health. Not only for preventing illness and disease, but in some cases, reversing them as well. These works are incredibly important and deserve a spot on every doctor’s book shelf.
Everyone has their own little dance they do each morning.
My morning dance USED to consist of nursing hangovers and mustering enough spark to get through the morning. That was a shit dance. I hated that dance. I hated it because I LOVE mornings. I love getting up early. I love the quiet light and the possibilities that so peacefully wrap themselves on the soft breath of morning.
But when you have a throbbing fucking headache, a mouth like the Sahara, a stomach that feels like it’s being catapulted out of your body by a rocket launcher, and tired, heavy, bloodshot eyes, the joy of morning gets sucked right out by the vacuum of death.
Stop right now, take a pause, and look at your body.
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Earlier this week I wanted a cigarette more than anything.
I wanted to put it between my lips. I wanted to light it. I wanted to inhale the smoke. I wanted to blow it out. I wanted to sink into it. And I wanted to repeat.
There’s a convenience store a few blocks from my house. They sell cigarettes. I have plenty of lighters lying around my house. And, I’m an adult, 100% capable of making the decision to go buy a pack of cigarettes and light up if I want to.
Here’s what I did instead…
Hi peaches n’ cashew cream,
Last year I was on the brink of a meltdown…
But first, let me rewind this track.
Clean Food Dirty Girl has been 100% self-funded. Luanne and I started working on our business full time in January 2014. We put in 12 hour days for two years straight before we started making enough money to pay our rent and our bills without a side gig. For those first two years we were running on passion, determination and trust that one day it would gain traction and it would work.
