Thanksgiving

Are you all ready, everything is planned out. The guests are invited and you are now preparing your menu for your Thanksgiving celebration? My Mother is. Prepared that is. This year? No turkey. Beef. And for me? Black bean and corn enchiladas! Yes! Some have made a noise about no turkey so there will be a turkey breast and for sure there will still be all the fixin's that go with a traditional Thanksgiving feast. And it is always a feast at our house... Mom's house, that is. Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, green beans, salad, relishes, cranberry sauce, rolls, pumpkin pie, apple pie and whatever else anyone who pops in may bring with them and that's all after a spread on the coffee table of every kind of snack food imaginable! How about you, could you do without a turkey on Thanksgiving? I'm excited about the black bean and corn enchiladas!

I really am. Excited about the black bean and corn enchiladas. When you eat like I do, different from most and breaking the family tradition, well... I've got the dearest Mom and she always loved to cook. Now she is learning something new! Yes, like garden burgers and tofu Italian sausage and vegan chili! Different is good here, for me any way. My husband, too. We changed our diet over three years ago and went vegan. Better yet, raw vegan! Not completely. On the Hallelujah Diet we have learned to eat 85% raw and only 15% cooked food. Was it easy? Once you make up your mind it is.

Let me say this; on this blog as you check out what I have to share with you, you will find good healthy information and encouragement to help support you when you choose a healthy lifestyle. You get to choose it (or not). That's it and then we begin. I'll begin by sharing with you nine healthy makeover tips to start you on your way to a daily healthy lifestyle. You'll have to do the reading to get the support but it won't only be reading, let me tell you, there will be hands-on for you too and that will be the key to make it work for you.

Why all this fuss about a healthy lifestyle? Do you want to live out your life to the fullest? Do you want to live it out sickly or healthy? Do you care about your God-given, miraculous self-healing body or will you waste it away? We have a spirit and a soul that has to live in this fleshy body with it's five miles of skin holding it all together, so we'd best be taking good care of it, don't you think? Many people today are trapped in a rut that leads to a dead end but there is hope at the end of your tunnel when you do it God's way! Let's have some fun as we learn to eat to live and not live to eat ourselves into oblivion!

Be careful this Thanksgiving Day and don't eat 'til you're stuffed. Say your Thanksgiving prayer first and then listen to your body or the voice in your head that's saying, "wait, not that", or "stop, you can't eat another bite or you'll die!" There is some truth to that voice as you well know.

I've really seen too many TV shows or movies that I think someone out there is listening... if there is, we're in this together so let's get going! Chat with you tomorrow or next week. Remember, I'm new at this so we'll see what it takes and if I can take it! God bless you and remember to make every day a hallelujah day! Count your blessings today and be thankful ~

This is it! I've started a blog! I feel better already as this is something I believe will be of benefit, if to no one else, to me! I'm encouraged just to have started so now let's see where I go from here. As I think about this blog I just set up, what does it look like? I chose a template but haven't seen it. I'm typing but where is it going? I won't have any of these answers until I stop typing this page and go see for myself, but just so you know, when it comes to a healthy lifestyle I'm beginning to have that all wrapped up in a neat little package and I can't wait to share with you. We'll begin in a few... I've just got to look!