Here's what I looked like before I became a healthy vegan. I was 45 years old, and ate the Standard American Diet.
I looked okay, but I always felt like a dork, to be honest. More importantly was how I felt, which was not great.
Here's a picture of me and my dad about to embark on an exciting adventure, flying my airplane to Alaska. Whenever I looked at this picture, instead of thinking, "what a great trip!", I thought, "I wish I weren't so dorky. "
Funnily enough, this one just cracked me up:
The pants didn't flatter me.
I weighed about 150-155 in those pictures. I'm 5'9". I purchased my first pair of size 16 pants in Spring 2005, and thought that was just a natural part of aging. Then I became vegetarian for environmental reasons, and secretly because I didn't want to eat animals (I barely admitted that to myself). I learned more about animal suffering and became vegan in July 2005. I lost weight over the next year, and felt better, which caused me to investigate this surprising result, and I discovered the unbelievable health benefits of eating a mostly vegan whole foods diet through websites like Drs. McDougall, Fuhrman, and Barnard. Here's a post describing how my health improved. So, as I mentioned in some other posts, I discovered the route to health by accident!
Now I just turned 49 and I weigh 120 lbs. I do wonder if that's a little low for my height but it is stable, and I have never had much muscle mass even though I've always enjoyed physical activity.
Here's the tired and weakling vegan:
Here's me at White Sands National Monument on our recent vacation. The wind was blowing really strong.
Another vacation picture:
In a furniture store last fall modeling our new bench.
