Hello I'm Keri and I am 23 years old. I am so new to the veg world that I haven't taken all the meat out of my diet just yet. I am well on my way but I was told to take it slow and to make 2 meals a week vegan and one more every week after that until I am on a full vegan diet. I am not doing this on my own however my boyfriend is coming along for the ride. Meat was a big part of my life for 23 years. I grew up in a hunting family and even hunted myself. I'm not taking meat out of my diet because they love of animals or that I think it is wrong to hunt because I am ok with others doing so if that is how they feed their familes. I have found that  that lifestyle is not for me anymore. I watch Forks over Knives and I want to be healthy and if that means not eating animal bi products than so be it. I have a one year daughter that I want to watch grow up and have kids and I want to be there for her when she has kids to help her. My boyfriend has heart problems and we are hoping by going on a whole foods plant based diet will help ease some of the issuses he is having. Also losing weight would be great too. After having my daughter I have not lost any of my baby weight but I have not gain any either. I have been working out and trying to eat better but nothing seemed to be working. I just could not lose weight. On top of not losing weight I was tired all the time. I know being a new mom having a baby cleaning a house is work but I should not feel this tired all the time. So with that being said I am hoping that this new lifestyle will help jump start a whole new feeling for me. I want to live my life and not watch my friends live it without me. I am 200lbs right not and 5'5" so as I get in to my new life style and make it work for the family I will keep everyone here updated how things are going. On Monday I am going to the doctor to get some blood work done and talk to him about the big change. I hope that with how well I feel and look after all of this my family will ask me how I look so good that in the end I can share all the info I have learned and help them to become healthy. I am the most worried about my dad. He has many health issuses that if he changed his diet and lifestyle like I am doing they would go away. I hope that through my actions he will change. I told him today that I am going vegan and he did not take it so well at all. He told me God put animals on the earth to be food. But in my study in the bible I found that is not the reason animals were put here. Before the flood we were to eat the herbs of the earth. It was not until after the flood when good said that flesh may eat flesh. Maybe animal proteins cause cancer because he no longer had hope for us or knew we would soon over indulge in such things and cause ourselves harm in the long run. I mean think about it for a second. The flood happened because the world was full of sin and Noah was not a great man he was a drunk and with that being the best man of his time says a lot doesn't it. So maybe by saying we could eat meat he was dooming everyone who like to over eat? One of the seven deadly sins is glutonny after all. Just food for thought.