It was just a dream that I had and I just never actually thought I could get it together
to do it and finally somebody nudge me to, it’s time to really write your book and
when you have a deadline you have to do it. (laughs) So, although I’d been planning
to write this book for eight years, I finally did it and, um, really I, the, my inspiration
for it is, I really just know deep, deep in my heart…I have absolutely no doubt that
when you eat this way you will feel better than you’ve ever felt in your life, and
I feel like it’s a crime to keep that a secret. I’m a food snob, you should know
that. I will not eat something that is not delicious so when I talk about the food in
the book, I am not lying to you that this is really amazing food. The most incredible
thing about eating this way is you really do get younger and stronger. I think we think
of aging as this idea that you’re going to slowly, you know, just, unravel and that’s
just normal, but it really isn’t. Getting fat and sick is not part of getting older.
It’s just not. It’s just, you can get healthier and stronger and so I feel like
I’m getting younger and healthier as I go along and I want to share with people those
secrets, and show them how delicious it is. Two weeks into being vegan for the first time
in my life people were like “what’s going on with you? You seem to be glowing or something,
like what’s happening?” Not to mention all the weight loss, but like, those are all
the, like, superficial things, and there all fantastic, but um, I mean I loved that I lost
weight, I loved that I felt, had so much more energy and I loved, but the biggest, most
impressive thing to me was that I just felt like I was walking around the world a little
lighter. Really, what I’m talking about is vibrancy and I’m talking about how amazing
you’ll feel. Those are the sort of everyday feelings that you might want to shift because
I’m assuming you’re not ill, but if you’re ill, you can heal yourself through eating
this way. It will actually heal you, and, um, you know, the book, we have loads of great
information in the book about, you know, different medical doctors talking about, you know, how
they’ve cured heart disease and how they’ve cured cancers, and how they have all these
different pro, and diabetes, there’s all these different programs and it’s all through
diet that these illnesses are healed. So, um, I just think it’s so amazing we can
stop wasting all this money and time and energy trying to find cures for things that, the
cure is in the food. The cause is in what you do to cause it. I’m so excited for the
book to be out in the world and see how it, see how people feel about it, and, hopefully
it really inspires people and makes them feel good, and really, I just know in my heart
that this will help them to be their best selves and I really can’t wait for them
to get to feel that. I’m Alicia Silverstone, and I’m a vegetarian.
There’s nothing in the world that’s changed me as much as this. I feel so much better
and have so much more energy. It’s so amazing.
