Today at Barnes n Noble, I decided to browse the bestseller section. I grabbed a book called “Skinny Bitch” because I liked the title. It’s a book about getting healthy and is very “tough love” and says stuff like, “You’ll never be a skinny bitch if you eat like a fat ass. Get off your lard ass and exercise or you’ll stay fat forever.” Stuff like that. *blink*
Halfway through the book, it started mentioning vegetarianism and how healthy it is for you and I was like, yeah yeah. So what. But then it started talking about the cruelty done to animals and got so specific that I lost my lunch and puked in the bookstore bathroom. If I am what I eat, I don’t want to be a “dead, rotting corpse” which essentially, is what meat is. I bought the book and five minutes later I was at a health food store stocking up on vegan food. My whole refrigerator is vegan right now and I’ve tossed out everything I own in my whole house that isn’t healthy.
Starting tomorrow morning, I am going to give up all dairy and meat (of all animals). Ironically, I had cheese, tuna, lobster, and egg nog today - so I’ll start tomorrow. I hope I can give it up cold turkey (pardon the pun) but even a gradual shift to get off of it will be good too. I’ve never been a vegetarian or a vegan and this is very new to me, but I’ve just been exposed to the “real world” of slaughterhouses and there is no way in the world I can continue to support that. I mean, I’ve known what happens to chickens (and it’s horrible) but I still continued to eat them because I figured, hey - I’m on the top of the food chain, who cares? But after seeing (and reading) what happens with chickens, turkeys, cows, pigs, etc… it truly makes me sick to my stomach. And all that stuff I was putting into my body is so harmful (and fattening) that I don’t see how it benefits people. Sure, meat tastes good. But some alternative meat stuff tastes good too. I don’t see why I couldn’t try out the veg lifestyle and see how my body handles it.
I feel guilty knowing all the leather products I’ve purchased - mostly for bondage. I’m tempted to throw away all my expensive leather purses (or at least give them away). But is it wrong of me to want to keep my leather BDSM stuff? I mean, I know there are non-leather alternatives, but they don’t have the “sting” or the bite when hitting people. Perhaps I’ll just stick with what I have and stop buying more products with that. Leather corsets? Fuck I’ll miss them. But at least I can wear latex or vinyl instead. I don’t know if this will be a permanent decision or not, but the way I’m feeling right now, I’m pretty adamant about it.
I suppose this may sound like a pretty dramatic lifestyle change, and truth be told, I’ve often rolled my eyes at other people who stopped eating meat cause I thought they were pussies or tree-huggers. But I swear, after reading and watching some of the stuff I’ve seen, I feel the only way to stop animal cruelty is if I stop buying the products. We all know that money controls the industry. And for each person that goes veg, that saves the lives of 90 animals a year. 90! Sheesh. Count me in. I look at my kitty cat, John Holmes, and when I think of the possibility that people will sit on his body for the hell of it just to watch it’s intestines pop out of his anus - it disgusts me. And yet, workers do that to turkeys all the time. The stuff I read, really, truly, made me lose my lunch. I even watched it happen on video (at goveg.com) and… wow. I am speechless.
The only thing that concerns me is that for over a year, I’ve been on the Jenny Craig diet. I really want to maintain the diet I am on because it is *working* for me. The next time I go in, I’ll see if they have any vegetarian or vegan alternatives. I really really hope they have something I can work with or else I may have no choice but to get off of it. For someone like me who has lost a dramatic amount of weight eating Jenny Craig products, that’s a pretty big statement. If I do stop the program, I hope they’ll help me maintain a healthy diet after leaving.
Special thanks to Mistress Lycia for buying me this shirt for my birthday!
Love
Isabella
xoxoxo
P.S. Later this week, I’m going to go to my first AA meeting. I don’t consider myself an alcoholic, but I do have a problem when it comes to social drinking. I rarely drink, but when I do, it gets way out of hand.
Fuck new years resolutions. I’m starting my resolutions early.
I applaud you for your decision! I eat as little meat as possible… I just can’t bring myself to cut meat out completely, plus I live with a beef addict. Good luck with your venture!
I’m not sure if its vegan or not… but I love Boca burgers!
And I love the new pictures, you look better and better every time I see you! Its such an inspiration to see all that you’ve done.
~Jenn
First off, Mistress Lycia has excellent taste as those pics and the dress are stunningly beautiful.
Second, I know that being a total vegetarian can be a difficult change, because of how things are set up to make you eat the meat just because it is easier. I wish you nothing but good fortune in your change and I wouldn’t worry too much about Jenny as not eating meats only makes your body healthier.
Lastly, when it comes to the leather, you already have a fine collection and I wouldn’t give it up as it has already been bought, so giving it away isn’t going to affect anyone but you since the industry already has your $. You do a great deal for the enviorment and for people in need Mistress, don’t let your heart begrudge you a few special things that you deserve.
ya eatibg meat is gross. big time gross. jenny c has some good vegan choices, but nutrisystem has more of a variety. as for leather and what not, I am american indian (soshone & navajo) and it is my culture to utelize animals for survival and that is just the way it iw. we eat them, wear them, use them for our people, our children etc. I don’t eat meat simply because it is so gross for you once it gets inside your stomach ughhhh just thinking about all the colonic blockage accumulating over time is simply unacceptable.
but yey for your eating plan!
Gorgeous pics!
NutriSystem has a lot of veggie-friendly food options, and it works! But the majority of it tastes rather nasty.
being a vegetarian is extremely difficult. i was a vegetarian of various levels for 6 years. if anyone can do it successfully and healthfully it’s you!
as for your leather goods: keep them. as was mentioned above: the money was already spent. giving them away isn’t going to reverse that. if you are hellbent on getting rid of your purses…well i’ll be happy to take them off your hands.
but seriously, you worked hard for those things.
also, if you decide to go vegan, you would have to rethink a lot more than just your leather…
miss you! i’m moving to the bay area, you need to come visit me! we’ll go to gay bars together.
Love the new pics… very beautiful
My partner has been a vegetarian for 30 years which was a big issue when we first got together since I come from a family of butchers. I knew there was no way I would go veggie, even knowing the terror of factory farms. However, I was able to find a happy compromise–free range, organic meat. These are more expensive, certainly, but taste better and the animals are treated better and slaughtered more humanely. Most of the time that I have non-free range meat it’s when I’m in crisis (can we say BK DQP?), which I try to cut out for all sorts of reasons.
If you want to fully transition, a friend of mine did it in annual stages. He gave up mammals the first year, poultry the second, fish the third, eggs the fourth, dairy the fifth. At some point he stopped buying leather, but I don’t know when that was. Seemed a reasonable plan to me.
Ultimately, I think that your awareness of the food you eat is a vital element of spirituality and that only good can come of knowing what sustains you and all that it goes through to get to you. You should consider, though, that if your diet has been working and it is important for your health (physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, or otherwise) for you to continue, you should definitely consider a gradual change. You’re going to be shocking your system by taking out its primary source of protein, the vegetarian replacements of which usually are accompanied by more fat and starch (from what I’ve seen).
Whatever your choices, good luck in your journey.
I echo and ’s comments about keeping the leather: you already bought it, if you throwing it out it just goes to waste, which doesn’t benefit anybody, so you might as well keep it.
I found it helpful, when fighting early meat cravings, to remind myself that my stomach is not my master, and to make it about more than just dietary, like “If I can’t resist a single hamburger, how will I ever [difficult task that I wanted to accomplish]?” But I imagine you’re already familiar with that sort of thing since you’ve successfully controlled your diet so long.
I don’t know if my tastes have changed because I’ve been vegan so long, but the following are some things I’ve learned that may be helpful to you:
That’s all that comes to mind. I’d be happy to help if I can. My e-mail address is kittenchicken0398@yahoo.com. Best of luck.
Just remember to make sure you still get protein. A lot of people who switch to a vegan diet neglect their protein intake and that leads to many, nasty problems including anemia and extraordinarily easy bruising.
That is so brilliant! I started becoming veggie at age 11 when my parents took me to a farm where you chose a chicken and they would slaughter it on premises and later serve it up to you as a meal. Within the next few years I turned 100% veggie and haven’t looked back. With friends in the bdsm and glbt fetish communities I often came up against things that turned me off- like, in a sense I loved the leather pride festival in NY but thinking about it I felt sick. Alot of people just choose one thing to be an activist about or to simply care about but that seems a bit narrow. Anyway, let me know if I can offer any tips about anything vegan (I’m vegan now) or veggie.
Oh, and the pictures are beautiful!
(isabellafan/andy…livejournal isn’t letting me log in for some reason)
Read fast food nation, way different than the movie, it talks a lot about how both animals and people are treated badly in the food industry. I was vegan or 3 years and felt very healthy during that time.
I saw this movie listing and I thought you would really enjoy it as it combines your newest passion with your oldest.
“In early November a militant vegetarian known as B recruits a high society girl and would-be activist known as A as her unwitting conspirator…”
http://www.bemyoswald.com/