I just wanted to throw up a quick blog about the Ottawa Citizen Newspaper.  They did an article about the Simply Raw Festival that I am attending right now, and also included a brief mention about me.  Check it out by clicking here.

Among them is motivational speaker Philip McCluskey from Connecticut, who is to talk at 10 a.m. today about his experience with healthy weight loss and overcoming emotional eating.

McCluskey, 31, weighed 400 pounds and was a candidate for radical gastric bypass surgery before he adopted the raw vegan lifestyle two years ago. He took a pass on the surgery, is down to 200 pounds and feels great.

"I'd basically been overweight my entire life," he said in a phone interview. "I tried more than 30 different diets, but none worked. I was basically sick and tired of being sick and tired."