“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”
Albert Einstein
I’ve been a vegetarian on and off during my life but it’s been steady over the past four or five years.
Mum spent the last year of her life in a nursing home but before that I lived with her and cooked and gardened and nursed her. My favourite thing is whenever I passed her in the living room sitting on her armchair and I kissed her on the forehead and said “love you mum.”
Mum was painfully thin and I hope it wasn’t my poor cooking and most of the decade we lived together before that we both ate meat and fish.
With mum before cooking dinner, I would ask her what she wanted for dinner and if she wasn’t sure I would give her a few options.
“A mother is the truest friend we have.”
Washington Irving
I love this quote and I feel my mum was the closest friend I’ve had through my life particularly my adult life when I lived with her. Some days I feel incredibly immature but I feel that is because I always compare myself to my mum and she was incredibly kind, mature and wise.
Since buying my own apartment I have taken more time away from my creativity to cook better vegetarian meals particularly dinner.
Some of the dinners I cook include: vegetarian Mandu dumplings, kimchi fried rice, pesto and pasta with fried mushrooms and rocket and cherry tomatoes, boiled vegetables with rocket cherry tomatoes fried eggs and chilli sauce and three cheese macaroni with rocket, cherry tomatoes and fried mushrooms.
Even though I’ve been swimming between 40 and 60 laps or between 2 and 3 hours in the pool over the past few weeks and building up to that five days a week over the past three months I’ve been having too much food as the exercise is making me very hungry so my weight has ballooned out to 99-100 kilos after the past three months.
Several years ago, when I lived with mum, I watched my vegetarian diet and exercised three days a week with a personal trainer at the gym and in a park when the gym was closed due to COVID and did one to two hours beach walking on the other days and I got right down to 78 kilos and my kind neighbour Neville remarked that I was in good shape.
“Your body can stand almost anything. It’s your mind that you have to convince.”
I don’t know who said this quote but it rings true.
In conclusion I enjoy my lifestyle based around swimming exercise, art, essay writing and a vegetarian diet. However, I need to watch what I eat particularly the munchies in the evening
