The change was unacceptable. I didn’t feel it coming. It just happened as I was going through my routine. It started when I shopped.
I started reading the back of each package I took at the market, wondering what these long letter words and all those letters were associated with numbers that I didn’t recognize. I took a package of pastrami. Everyone buys pastrami. I flipped the package and it said that its only 70 percent or something like that, meat. Why? What are the extra 30%?

Honestly, I didn’t give it much thought at the time, I just returned the box to the shelf and thought to myself, we just didn’t really need pastrami this week.

Gradually, as I kept reading, I noticed the sugars hidden in plain site just about everywhere. We will get to that

the change snuck up on me through my shopping cart, and the next natural step was cosmetic. I realized that the more a brand spends on advertising the more you need to stay away from it.

And that is the catchy part, there are no guarantees, You start changing, not with 100% success, the brands you buy, some just appear natural others are too natural. It’s long research that I’m still conducting. I had to spend money, try new brands. This was easy, it took me time and money. What I found challenging was the social aspects. I’m living the city life and I love what the city has to offer, my social circle struggled with my change and was quite judgmental at first. I was often asked why I still live in the city. Since my new philosophy had not been founded yet, I  started making excuses instead of asking them why weren’t them waking up. But I did eventually – we will get to that as well.