Health/ weight loss

A big part of my personality has always been a deep

concern for my physical health.  I didn't really begin

to understand what makes me healthy, or unhealthy,

until about two and a half years ago.  My partner and

I began a deep exploration of many different types of

health fads including diets, exercise routines,

nutritional
supplements, and a whole cadre of methods

for weight loss.

       Since I was about twelve
years old I have been a Yoga

practitioner. Since then I have taken all of my health

cues from the ancient scriptures as my view on each

new health philosophy.  The philosophy I have taken

out of these texts is the extreme importance of

complete purity.  This to me means that we strive

through diet and exercise to purify the body.  We then

use other means of self purification to cleanse the

mind and spirit.  So within each new weight
loss

program or nutritional supplement regime I came

across, I have looked for the stressing of purity and

not intoxication.  As our exploration of different

dietary ideas continues, my practice of purity becomes

exponentially more rooted within my everyday life.

While my philosophy has been rooted in one sort of

mindset for many years, my partner is quite the

opposite.

       My partner  has
always had an easier time jumping

from one idea or philosophy to another without much

effort.  Where I look to the scriptures or meditate on

my own ideas, she may hear of a new regime and jump

right in to it.  Though for her the exploration has

become quite limited since her diagnoses with diabetes

this past fall.  Her diet now is quite limited, but

she still follows a Nourishing Traditions type of

diet.  This is where our philosophies come together.

This diet is based around purity of the food you eat

and supplements you take, for the purposes of living

longer.  Since her beginning this diet, she has lost

around thirty pounds in about seven months.  Her

weight loss is so astonishing that we
all notice

changes in her about every week.

       Our diets differ in only one
large way, I am a

vegetarian and she is not.  At this time I have been

eating meat due to some complications of malnutrition

and protein deficiency.  That aside I am morally a

vegetarian person and believe that eating meat is

impure and will naturally carry with it the pain of

the animal.