Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness

7am: 1 banana
3T Organic Almond and Peanut Butter (mixed together)
1T Blackstrap Molasses
1/2c Cherry Juice
1/2 T Flax Oil

10am: 1/2c Hummus
8 Carrot Chips
1c Tea

12pm: Pumpkin and Sunflower Seeds
Dried Pineapple and Mango
Protein Shake (1/2c Cherry Juice and 1 scoop non-soy powder)

3pm: 1c Bean "pasta"
2/3c Sauce
1c Tea

5:30pm: Vega Shake

8pm: ANDI bar

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"May I always be the type of person my dog thinks I am"

"Don't Hassel the Hoff!"

"Don't Mess with the 'S'!"

Robert, during a typical nutrition day as you posted above, when do you do your workout sessions? I assume your timing and what you eat at each meal reflects that.

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Matt Norwood
I'm was there, now I'm here.

I often workout around 5PM. So I get that snack in around 4PM and hit the gym from 5-6:30 and come home and eat.

Those aren't exact times that I eat, but a breakdown of my typical schedule when I can stick with it. It all depends on work and other things going on, but I always get in food every 2-3 hours, even if it is just a quick Vega bar or Clif bar, just some sort of fuel.

But I do like to stick to a program like this to get X amout of protein and X amount of calories throughout the day.

Sometimes I workout at 8PM so I just plan meals around it.

Before training I pretty much only like to eat fruit (bananas, apples and oranges being my favorites) and sometimes and energy bar. I don't like to have a full stomach but I like to have that energy from those foods. After a workout, I'll eat quite a bit. Sometimes I don't have much of an appetite after training, it depends on the workout. But gotta eat, so I get it done.

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I'm the same way...planning what u eat and when to eat really helps. But sometimes is so easy to get stuck in a rut when u find a good plan. That tends to be my problem.



No kidding! Eating in and of itself is like a full-time job! I've added a lot more food to what I was previously eating, so now I eat at least 6-9 times a day. I always carry food with me... had to buy a bigger purse to accomodate it all!

Oh!!! I finally know for a fact that I actually CAN cook! LOL... I made a pizza tonite and it ROCKED! (Usually, I SUCK at cooking----case in point: I've burned pasta, tofu, and even soup. Most of my pans have burned food permanately crusted onto them. Yeah, with my cooking skills, I'm going to make my future husband very happy, lol!!! ) However, the pizza was yummy and didn't burn (AMAZING!). I used spelt pizza crust, sauce, tofu, spinach, mushrooms, and vegan cheese. YUM!

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"May I always be the type of person my dog thinks I am"

"Don't Hassel the Hoff!"

"Don't Mess with the 'S'!"

Congrats on your newfound pizza cooking skill Shelby!

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Courtney

"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we'd all be vegetarians."
-Linda McCartney

I LOVE VEGAN PIZZA!

I look forward to eating it once I finish competing this spring. Nice job on the cooking. I'm terrible. I can't really cook anything.

A few years ago I could cook a bit, and bake too, but those years are behind me.

Maybe I'll be good at it again someday.

Anyway, eat up!

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My cooking skills have taken a bit of a regression as of yesterday. Case in point:
I was making my Famous Vegan Pizza (one of the only things I know how to make), and I not only managed to set off the Smoke Dectector, but also burned a good chunk of my forearm in the process. (At least the pizza was Delicious!!!) Needless to say, I'm done with cooking for a while and instead will resort to gorging on hummus, tofu, salads, and nut butters. The Raw Vegan Diet is looking more appeasing by the minute! LOL

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"May I always be the type of person my dog thinks I am"

"Don't Hassel the Hoff!"

"Don't Mess with the 'S'!"

Here's what I had today:
9 am
Homemade smoothie:
1/3 cup frozen berries(blueberries/rasberries)
1 bananna
1 cup blended veggie juice(wheatgrass, carrots, broccoli)
1/2 cup strawberries
11am
tofurkey sandwich
Salad w/homemade dressing(rasberry vineg/flax oil)
12pm
broccolu/hummus
2pm
1/4 cup mixed raw cashews/almonds
3pm
apple
5pm(almost here)
pasta puntanesca
salad
mixed steamed veggies

I try, I don't always get the perfect amount of fats/carbs/protein. I also try to stick to 1800-2000 calories.

I know I've been asked, and I think I've posted this elsewhere, but I'll post it here again, where it's supposed to be.

What I typically eat:

A.M.

Fruit - usually apples, pineapple, oranges, bananas, etc. My job is particualrity hectic at times, so I like to eat "fast" foods. How much?? it differs from day to day, but I generally eat 10 -12 pcs of fruit throughout the morning.

Lunch - Fruit, and usually a stalk of celery, or a cucumber, or maybe some brocolli. I used to eat a big salad for lunch, but I found that it makes me lethargic in the afternoon, which effects my work, as well as my daily training

Dinner - now this is the meal that generally changes from day to day. I sometimes have some roasted potatoes, or a vegetable stir fry on a bed of long grain brown rice. Or even a veggie sandwich, and of course lots and lots of SALADS!! quite often I will make myself a green smoothie consisting of 3 bananas, 6 medjool dates, and .5 - 1 lb. of dark leafy greens. YUM!

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I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants

This is pretty much the average amount that I will have in a day, I've noticed that I have made a change from eating fruits at random to instinctively seeking juicy seasonal fruits.

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FRUITARIAN FITNESS
The Fruitarian Lifestyle & Fitness Coach
www.fruitarianfitness.com

Anybody use http://www.fitday.com ? I'm curious to see how some of these diets break down in terms of macronuritents and calories (with screenshots).

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This is how I ate to get my bench up to 370 and squat to 600

Breakfast:

2 bananas before the gym when I woke up...when I got back:
close to a Whole box or cereal
1 carton of soymilk
a couple apples
2 heaping spoonfulls of peanut butter before class

In class diet...about a span of 5hrs:
Pick at a can of nuts
2-3 fruits...whatever I stole from the dining hall
2 very peanut buttery pbj sandwiches

Go to track practice(3-4hrs)

Late Lunch 5ish:
huge salad...atleast a head of lettuce, 2 tomatoes, couple handfulls of mushrooms, as many scoops of chichpeas that wouldn't overflow my tray.
Alot of really lousy vegetarian chilli(the only hot food that was vegan and availiable every day)
1/2lbs of pasta with really lousy marinara and some bread with oil

As much fruit as I could eat for desert

Go home to study...
Aka...skim a little and eat to keep full.

Pic away and eat my daily package of soy dogs

2-4 veggie burgers

Do some technique drills and stretching in my room

Maybe a cheeseless pizza from the local pizza shop or a stromboli

snack on carrots, raisons and nuts

Chug down some soymilk and juice before bed

Go to bed for 4 hours and do it all over again.

About 10,000 calories...sometimes more

breakfast: shake made of unsweetened soymilk, hemp protein, and some frozen berries (sometimes with nut butter or some maple syrup)

snack: another protein shake because it is right after my workout

lunch: some type of sandwich. maybe a low carb wrap with mock chicken salad made of tempeh, avocado, sprouts, and tomato. maybe some german flourless whole grain and seed bread with a marinated tofu cutlet, sliced onion, sprouts, tomato, spinach......

snack: a bowl of vegetable soup with tofu cubes

dinner: stir-fried vegetables and tofu OR high protien pasta with faux ground beef & tomato sauce OR beans in corn tortillas with enchilada sauce and fresh salsa......

snack: another bowl of soup with tofu cubes

i think i am eating too many carbs.

I think your fine on carbs, protein seems good too.
As for hemp protein whats it taste like. I can't at my local grocer and haven't felt like ordering something I haven't tried thats not cheap. Is it a little like flax meal or what...I'll get it eventually but I live in a really christian area and anything with hemp in it is really hard to find.

Easy way to tell: http://www.fitday.com

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