Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness

Next year, consider planting Scarlet Runner Beans. They grow like crazy, bloom in scarlet red which attracts hummingbirds in droves, and the beans, themselves, are mottled in shades of purple, black, and cream and taste AMAZING in a vegan crumb bake. Nummy! Ironically, the organic ones are often insanely expensive in stores to buy for cooking--strange considering how effortless they are to grow.

Scarlet Runner Bean: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runner_bean
Recipe to veganize: http://search.yumyum.com/recipe.htm?ID=20899 (You could use the sinful Daiya in lieu of butter and anchovies.)

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fallacy: the strange error that our perfection
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opinions and applause of other men."
Source: Thomas Merton

Workout this evening at gym:
All stretches except shoulders.
30 each pelvic tilts, crunchers, bicycle maneuvers.
Supermans
10 hanging leglifts (bars to low)(or too tall)
Supersetted with 25lbs DBs, 3 sets
Did seated overhead presses, seated curls, lying skull crushers.
Didn't set DBs down until done with all.
Supersetted
Bench Press Machine 110lbs 2 sets of 10
Rowing Machine 120lbs 2 sets of 10

Had scoop of protein powder and water after workout. (not noted in earlier food log for today)
Thanks for reading.
Hope your day is special!

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Happiness is a personal choice!
I am the sole source of all my sadness and joy.

"The logic of worldly success rests on a
fallacy: the strange error that our perfection
depends on the thoughts and
opinions and applause of other men."
Source: Thomas Merton

Breakfast:
1/2 cantaloupe
3 cups of orange juice (330 cal.) with a scoop of protein powder.

Lunch and breaks:
1/2 sour apple, (drop half no place to wash it off) 1 banana, 3 black plumbs, chewed 1 calcium pill and water.

Dinner:
1/2 eggplant barbecued light oil spray, beans Called wife during lunch and asked her to soak some beans for me, she must have add extra water much later in the soak because half of the beans were cooked and half weren't as you might see. Into the soup with the rest of them. Wife at store, so can't ask her, just my guess. Only 90 calories of Daiya cheese, over some catchup.




OK, well I couldn't get through half the beans on the plate, so I set about rounding up some older veggies with the beans and soup it is.



Down about 8 pounds from Sunday, still fit in my 38 waist paints, they don't make men size 37 in pants, only 36, 38, 40,...
So onwards and downwards!



Well with some of the family leaving tomorrow, My daughter bought some soy choc. ice cream. I think her sister put her up to it. So I measured out 1 cup 260 calories.

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Happiness is a personal choice!
I am the sole source of all my sadness and joy.

"The logic of worldly success rests on a
fallacy: the strange error that our perfection
depends on the thoughts and
opinions and applause of other men."
Source: Thomas Merton

Breakfast:
Oatmeal, chia seed, almond milk.
Water and a scoop of protein powder.

Lunch and breaks:
2 cups of leftover bean soup.
2 bananas

Adding my vitamin intake:
1 multi, 2 Vit. E, 1 B12 sublingual, chewed 2 calcium/magnesium with food.

Dinner:
Can of refried, cherry tomatoes, chopped onion, garlic, 2 small bell peppers, 2 button mushrooms, pickled jalapeno chips, 180 cal. Daiya cheese.



After heating stirring in microwave.



1 nectarine, 1 plum, 6 strawberries, 1 banana, 1 scoop protein powder, 2 cups orange juice, ice.

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Happiness is a personal choice!
I am the sole source of all my sadness and joy.

"The logic of worldly success rests on a
fallacy: the strange error that our perfection
depends on the thoughts and
opinions and applause of other men."
Source: Thomas Merton

I finally live somewhere where I can buy Daiya so my first night here I rushed right out and bought some and came home and made a grilled cheese. It took me awhile to get used to it, but it's pretty good! The first pizza I made with it kind of creeped me out since it has been so long since I've had cheese, haha

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vegan for the win!

Oh yeah sure, blame me.

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Happiness is a personal choice!
I am the sole source of all my sadness and joy.

"The logic of worldly success rests on a
fallacy: the strange error that our perfection
depends on the thoughts and
opinions and applause of other men."
Source: Thomas Merton

Breakfast:
Oatmeal, chia, pecans, blueberries, and almond milk.
Orange, pineapple, and banana juice with a scoop on protein powder.

Lunch and breaks:
2 cups bean soup, 1 apple, 1 banana

Dinner:
Grilled eggplant with ketchup and Daiya cheese, broccoli, and carrots, both steamed.
2 slices toasted rye bread with a little Earth Balance.

3 cookies 210 cal.
1 cup soy ice cream 230 cal.
1 cup almond milk 70 cal.

2 black plumbs
Homemade lemonade

Vits
1 multi, 2 Vit. E, 1 B12 sublingual, chewed 2 calcium/magnesium with food

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Happiness is a personal choice!
I am the sole source of all my sadness and joy.

"The logic of worldly success rests on a
fallacy: the strange error that our perfection
depends on the thoughts and
opinions and applause of other men."
Source: Thomas Merton

AM:
Bike ride same as last time 12 point something miles.
Nothing but water until 7:00PM.

Dinner:
Salad:
Leaf lettuce, carrots, few carrot tops, mushrooms, red bell peppers, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds.
Food processor salad dressing:
Fresh tomato, chopped onion, 2 cloves garlic, nutritional yeast, Tbs olive oil, lemon juice, vinegar, fresh basil, chili powder, dry thyme, salt.
1 cup macaroni and Daiya cheese 90 cal., 100 cal. soy butter.
Plain rye toast.



3 cookies 210 cal.
1 cup soy ice cream 230 cal.
1 cup almond milk 70 cal.
No Vitamins

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Happiness is a personal choice!
I am the sole source of all my sadness and joy.

"The logic of worldly success rests on a
fallacy: the strange error that our perfection
depends on the thoughts and
opinions and applause of other men."
Source: Thomas Merton

Gym about 4:30 PM
All my stretches except one.
35 each pelvic tilts, crunchers, bicycle maneuvers.
Supermans
Supersetted with 25 lbs DB
seated shoulder presses, 2 x 10
curls 2 x10
Suppersetted
25lbs DB lying skullcrushers 3 x 10
55 lbs standing rows 3 x 10
24 in 60 sec. full squats with Oly bar.
5 min treadmill at 3.5 mph
20 each alternating knee lifts hanging from elbows.
Jacuzzi, steam room.

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Happiness is a personal choice!
I am the sole source of all my sadness and joy.

"The logic of worldly success rests on a
fallacy: the strange error that our perfection
depends on the thoughts and
opinions and applause of other men."
Source: Thomas Merton

So cool that you have all these food pics in your journal!

Great stuff Joe!

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Thank you very much Robert!

Breakfast:
Oatmeal, chia seeds, almond milk,
Water and a scoop of protein powder.

Lunch and breaks:
1 banana
2 apples
3 plumbs
water.

Dinner:
Black bean burgers, dark rye bread, leaf lettuce, onion, tomato, Veganaise, ketchup, iodized salt, pepper.



Made three, one for wife, so ate 1 other patty with Daiya cheese and ketchup only.

2 cups of almond chocolate milk 280 cal..
Vits today: 1 multi, 2 Vit E, 1 B12.
1 cup soy ice cream
4 cups homemade lemonade
Good night!

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Happiness is a personal choice!
I am the sole source of all my sadness and joy.

"The logic of worldly success rests on a
fallacy: the strange error that our perfection
depends on the thoughts and
opinions and applause of other men."
Source: Thomas Merton

Breakfast:
Cooked teff seed, soy butter, agave syrup, cinnamon.
540 Cal.
Water with scoop of protein powder.

Lunch and Breaks:
1 banana, 2 apples

Dinner:
Baked potato 1 tsp of soy butter, balck beans plain, pan fried tofu with ginger, sprinkiled with walnuts.



Vits: 1 multi., 2 Vit E, 1 calcium, 1 B12 sublingual.

1 slice toasted sourdough bread with soy butter, 150 cal.

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Happiness is a personal choice!
I am the sole source of all my sadness and joy.

"The logic of worldly success rests on a
fallacy: the strange error that our perfection
depends on the thoughts and
opinions and applause of other men."
Source: Thomas Merton

Breakfast:
Frozen mixed vegetables (heated), 1 tsp olive oil, salt, pepper.
Orange, pineapple, and banana juice, with 1 scoop of protein powder.

Lunch and breaks:
1 large avocado, 2 roma tomatoes all plain, 1 small apple, water.

Dinner:
Black bean sandwich, on toasted sour dough, with leaf lettuce, onion, Daiya cheese, Veganaise.(mighty good!)



Weighed and measured
Cucumber with skin (organic) 250 grams, 1/2 lb, 38 cal..
1 Tbls. Veganaise 90 cal., 2 Tbls. apple cider vinegar, salt, pepper, chili powder.



3 cookies, 2 cups almond milk, with cocoa powder, and protein powder. 560 cal.
Vits: 1 multi, 1 B12
Toasted sour dough bread and soy butter, maybe 200 cal..

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Happiness is a personal choice!
I am the sole source of all my sadness and joy.

"The logic of worldly success rests on a
fallacy: the strange error that our perfection
depends on the thoughts and
opinions and applause of other men."
Source: Thomas Merton

Breakfast:
Wheat gluten, millet, and brown rice flour, with 2 Tbls of olive oil.
Maybe 500 - 600 cal..



Lunch:
Can of refried beans. pickled jalapeno chips, tortilla chips, chili powder. 500 - 600 cal.
Red seedless grapes, on vine that fit into a 2 cup measuring cup. upwards of 200 cal.

1 cup orange juice mixed with a bunch of cold water. 110 cal.

Dinner:
Artichoke (young) (shared it) (from garden), potato and 100 cal. soy butter, mungwort soba noodles,
250 cal. olive oil, pole beans (garden), broccoli, onion, garlic, portabella, spice.



4 cookies, 2 cups almond milk, with cocoa powder, and protein powder. 550 cal. (unsweetened almond milk)

No Vitamins

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Happiness is a personal choice!
I am the sole source of all my sadness and joy.

"The logic of worldly success rests on a
fallacy: the strange error that our perfection
depends on the thoughts and
opinions and applause of other men."
Source: Thomas Merton