I am posting a review of the journal Plant Positive created and written by Kate Galli. The review that I recorded for Book Tube is below and the written review is below that. I was thinking that this is good to post for the holidays given the toxic food culture, but really it is good to read about Plant Positive at all times. The journal is a reminder that we are in control of our food, what we do and do not eat, and ultimately we have more power over our lives than we think we do.
When I saw Kate Galli interviewed on Rip Esseltyn’s PLANTSTRONG Podcast, I was intrigued. I immediately ordered her recently released Plant Positive Journal.
I got it as a gift for my partner but decided to read through it before she started writing in it. It is a year-long daily journal, broken down into months, weeks, and days, with the intention of helping people change their thinking, habits, and ways. I got the impression that the journal is designed primarily for people who are new to the vegan lifestyle. However, my partner and I have been vegan for four years now and the Journal was still extremely helpful.
Plant Positive Journal is beautifully done with exquisitely wrought drawings and well-placed inspirational quotes that alone are worth the price of the journal and the postage from Australia to the United States. Kate Galli, who created the journal, is a vegan bodybuilder and health coach based in Sydney, Australia. Her podcast, about all things plant-based, is called “Healthification” and can be found wherever people get their podcasts.
As my partner said when I gave her the journal (for our fortieth anniversary), “It is the best present I ever got!”
Being vegan together—which we first did for health reasons and then went through a consciousness-raising about the animals and the environment—has been pretty amazing also.
Kate writes, “This journal covers the habits and thought patterns that help me manage my time and more importantly, my MIND.”
One of the suggestions from the Journal was to “piggyback” good habits onto each other. Kate mentions ten-minute meditation practices in the book, and I ended up “piggybacking” a ten-minute meditation onto the end of my regular yoga practice. I was meditating regularly but fell out of practice. I found this technique of “Piggybacking” my habits to be quite effective. The meditation time that I added has been life-altering and I often find myself looking forward to it!
One of the nuggets of information in the Journal was that both the American Dietetic and the British Dietetic Associations have stated that “A vegan, plant-based diet is nutritionally adequate, healthy, and safe at all stages of life, including pregnancy.”
As Kate writes, “Animals taste great. I will admit it. Most vegans will. We don’t become vegan because we hate the way animals taste. We become vegan because we discover we have been LIED TO.
We have been told our ENTIRE LIVES that some animals are ‘products.’ That it’s ok to eat some animals. Not all of them. That’d be bad!”
Plant Positive Journal created by Kate Galli reminded me of how much hope—for people and their health, for the animals, and the planet—that being plant-based also inspires in me. I found it practical, beautiful, inspirational, and very well-written.
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