I am going to get better with this

Okay, I am making it my goal to attend to this blog. I'm not getting lazy or anything, but it seems for the moment I have a writers block. But slowly and surely I am starting to be motivated to blog about the vegan journey again. I just had a birthday yesterday and I turned 37 (I was about to type 36, wow) but anyway as I age I understand more and more the importance of being conscious of what I put in my body. During this journey I have unintentionally lost about 30 lbs. Now I am not going to say that I am sad to see that weight go, but eating a more healthy diet had a lot to do with it. As I said in a previous post one thing that I need to start is an exercise regimen. I do, do African Dance twice a week but that is purely for pleasure, but I must say it is a great workout. However it is not enough. I need to do more. I don't like working out in a gym, so I am not going to waste my money doing that again. I need to find an physical activity that I enjoy doing, as a workout. I have been looking at a couple of things and one thing that has surprisingly peeked my interested is pole dancing. I have been talking to many people who have told me that it really tones and shapes your body really nice. Now for me that is definitely interesting and I definitely see it as a challenge. So I think that is one thing that I am going to try out to see if that is something that I can do to get fit. I'll let you know how that turns out.

Issues, issues, issues

Okay, I've know I have posted before about this, but it is so hard to be vegetarian, vegan in a family that is not.  I know I have been dragging my tail on this eating fish issue, but I finally stopped eating fish too. I am trying to live the rest of my life healthy. I have even toned down my sugar intake, a lot. I know I said I would do without during Lent, but I shouldn't have even played like that.  So now I what I have to do is add some type of exercise/workout routine in my life. I don't know if I've said this before, if not, I hate working out. I don't hate exercising though. I think what I don't like in the monotony of working out, I need variety. Let's face it we don't like monotony in anything we do. So once again I have decided to try the 200 push-up challenge to start me off, after I heal from this wretched kidney infection. Oh let me tell you about this wretched kidney infection of mine. On Monday my back was hurting, but stupid dependable me decided to go to work anyway. Now I've had a kidney infection before but it was like 10 years ago so that was the furthest thing from my mind anyway. So I get to work and sit down and my back started hurting really bad. I went to my boss and informed her that I was going to the hospital. So I Get to the hospital (great experience at Ochsner on the West Bank in Gretna, LA I must say) and I didn't have to wait long to get seen and treated. The nurse came with the IV bag to get me hydrated. Then she came back and said "This is for the gunk in your system", I was like you all had to pull all the heavy antibiotics. One thing was different this time with me being sick--this time I was down for the count for some days. I think I down so many day either because I am getting old and it takes longer for me to recover and heal or this was just a bad infection. Usually if I do get sick I'm may be out for a day or two at the most. So after this experience needless to say I am now cutting out pop(cold drink as they call it down here), and dare I say it alcohol..don, don, don, don, dooon! I do have an appointment with a kidney specialist next week so I will definitely take their advice, even if it means I can't drink alcohol anymore. I'm seeing a kidney specialist because I have been experiencing my unfair share of UTI's (sorry if this is TMI, not trying to be like Snooki) and I need to put a stop to it. I have done everything they have suggested on the web and previous doctor visits and I still get them so since I have insurance now, I think I should put it to good use.