OP HEALTHBOD 2025 | Phoenix Song

The Phoenix Totem surrounds the landscape as we're in the middle of Spring 2025 and I feel the Muse of Change sing her Phoenix Song!

I have Gaga's MAYHEM album playing in the background as I type this (so excited to go to the tour in September!) and I'm going to explain this Phoenix Song.

This Phoenix Song aka OP HEALTHBOD 2025 is a culmination of a series of Breadcrumbs throughout the last few months starting at the beginning of March 2025.

As I already wrote about...2024 was a complete shithole of a year for me. One of the worsts! But...what do we do? We continue to Rise.

I had a series of physical ailments in 2024. I pulled my groin which resulted in a long period of being a couch potato as I healed. Mother's Day 2024 until Mid-Fall 2024. I couldn't move without discomfort and I could not exercise. I did too much on the elliptical without proper stretching and BAM! Years of the same movements on the elliptical and just going too high in intensity and speed.

The groin injury / lower abdominal muscle pull finally healed...but then 11/3/24...I had my first Gout flare-up. The worst pain I ever felt. Felt as if my foot was constantly being stomped by a sledgehammer and tiny hot needles poking my toe underneath my big toe's nail. That was a gut punch. How the hell do I have gout? Anyhow, I'm on a treatment plan for this beginning March 2025.

So I finally started going back to the gym in March 2025. I just walk on the treadmill on an incline just like I did when I was 15 beginning my weight loss journey with an exercise physiologist. I was (and am) very careful about not doing too much, too fast, and what not so I can avoid any injuries! Daily stretching as well!

So...come the week of 4/13/25...I knew I had my Florida trip coming up the following week. My foot kept bothering me. I think it was due to a combination of Gout as well as decades (literally) of wearing improper footwear. Skateboarding shoes and Boat shoes. No arch support. Just basically paper. So I took a week off and I finally bought myself the PERFECT shoes which carried me through my Florida trip without any problems.

Coincidentally, 4/13/25 also brought upon another change aka Breadcrumb. The day before, my love and I went to the movies to see Drop. I brought my cannabis vape and let's just say I accidentally inhaled too much resulting in a bug-out. Some of you may know this when you take too much cannabis and you're bugging. Thankfully I was able to control myself since this wasn't my first rodeo. That uncomfortable bugging feeling. The next day, I decided to take a break from cannabis. I don't abuse cannabis, just maybe a puff at night before bed, and I wanted to make sure I was fine during my trip since I wouldn't have that on me. There are withdrawal symptoms of cannabis which include disruptive sleep and/or insomnia.

Mind you, I haven't drank a full glass of any alcohol since April 2024 and then just a few small sips of wine in September 2024 at my friend's wedding. Nothing else in between those dates nor since then. Cool. I'm alcohol-free. Wasn't a big deal, wasn't a decision I made, it just happened. I already wrote an entry about this.

So! Come to Florida. I was very careful with what I ate. Even though I'm treating the gout, I didn't want to increase the probability of a flare up (please no, God, no!). I consumed mostly vegetarian and vegan meals. I had the vegan Shepard's pie at the Three Broomsticks in Hogsmeade.

Now I do want to take note that I eat pretty well. I rarely snack. I don't think I overeat. I always eat many vegetables with my meals. I just gained weight from being a couch potato for so long in 2024! No movement even on a pretty well balanced diet would result in weight gain. Duh. I would've gained so much more if I drank alcohol along with eating a poor diet. Absolutely, no question.

I'm in Florida and I'm feeling just this Muse to go Vegan again. I was Vegan from 2018 to 2021. I think it was that or was it 2017 to 2020? It was 4 full years. I just woke up one day and decided to do that. Then I woke up another day and decided to stop.

I felt the best ever when I was eating a plant-based diet. Some vegan junk food sprinkled in, but mostly healthy plant-based foods. I also looked the best ever! Buttttt, let's get it straight, I don't care what you do with your life. I'm not one to judge. In harm none...do what ye will. There are some awful vegans attacking anyone who disagrees with them. Disgusting.

It was really easy for me to be vegan. A positive trait of mine is...I don't succumb to peer pressure easily. Helllllo 2021 when that trait was amazing when everyone was doing XYZ and I didn't allow anyone to pressure me. Hell fucking no.

my god I love this album.

So! The sister I visited in Florida is vegan. She went vegan after I did back in the day and is still consuming only a plant-based diet. She reversed her lime disease diagnosis and is thriving. She also isn't one of those pesky, judgmental vegans. She just does her.

Now I came back home last Sunday and I decided to go dairy free. Easy, Done, No issues. Then I consumed meat and just looked at it differently. I had flashbacks to my plant-based days and I missed them.

Allllll these Breadcrumbs came to a loaf bread, if you will, today! I had so much work to catch up on since returning home that I wasn't able to go to the gym (excuses? maybe). I haven't weighed myself in a while, but you know when you feel like you've gained weight. I'm sure I lost a few pounds since returning to the gym in March 2025. But...I want my birthday to be special with a gift I give to myself.

Today, 5/2/25, came in with a Plan. OP HEALTHBOD 2025. To gift myself with a weight loss plan I can easily commit to. I've already done large weight loss journeys in my past and this go-around isn't nearly as big of a journey. I'm not fat, I just gained weight over the last year.

But! What today brought me was just a sudden urge to go vegan again. Like. Decision is made. What will be different this go-around is that I'm now with my love and we live together and I (joyfully) cook all of our meals. It'll be different having to make two cuisines at each meal, but I'll manage. I'm not forcing anything on him so I'll make him whatever he wants while I eat what I want to eat.

30 pounds to lose by 7/17/25...my 34th Birthday. Totally doable. I'll give myself 20 to 30 pounds weight loss, but really...30 is the goal.

When I make my mind and come to a decision...that's it! I decide and I do it.

I'm going to write about my journey as it will keep me even more accountable. I don't have a desire to use a weight loss medication which is very popular right now. I just remember how much better I felt while being plant-based and how much better I looked.

Remember that you do you!

Gagaaaaaaa, why is this so good?

I created an Excel spreadsheet this afternoon. I love data! My Healthy Logic Mind is on fiiiiiire. The reason why I also keep doing my psychic and mediumistic work is because of the data. Remember authentic psychics and mediums are not air heads nor lunatics nor stupid. Pattern Recognition & Data.

76 Days of Transformation! I'm also going to be, once this is completed and I reach my goal, treating myself to purchasing a Playstation 5. Even more of a reason to go go go!

Measurements each month. I'm going to weigh myself everyday to just have the data while acknowledging the varying day-to-day weight fluctuations.

I'll keep writing about this and maybe this will inspire you to create your own OP HEALTHBOD 2025 journey.