Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness

Ok, I see everyone else has one on here so I thought Id start one. Bare with me some days I eat enough some I dont.

5:30am- 1.5c Oats w/ 1 banana, 1 small box of raisins, and almond milk

9:45am- 1 large carrot

10:45 am- a protein bar

3:30pm- 4 pieces of ezekial sesame bread, 1 banana, some peanut butter and 1 box of raisins

8:30pm- 4 small white potatoes with small amount of tofutti

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5:15am- 1.5c Oatmeal w/banana and 1 box of raisins

8:45- banana

9:45- banana

12:45- honey crisp apple (gawd I love these kind!)

1:30- 28oz baked beans

4:15- honey crisp apple

5:00- 20oz canned pineapple

5:45- protein shake

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Where are your green vegetables?

ETA I know I know, not supposed to make comments until after a week.

Im bad about my veggies a lot of the times. Ill eat almost nothing but fruit and I CAN tell that I need my vegetables, but I almost always prefer fruit. I'll go eat some romaine before I go to sleep tonight.

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8:45am- banana & jade greenzymes barley grass juice(1 packet)

9:45- apple

10:45- apple

11:45- banana

2:45pm- vegan gumbo (1 little bowl)

6:00- protein shake

7:30- pasta dinner

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What is vegan gumbo? Sounds awesome

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Greens wisdom!

I ensure I get at least two servings a day every day through my smoothie. When you add in the fruit too, I'm getting about 5 servings of fruits and veggies in one big cup.

Do you eat broccoli? Spinach? Kale? I have lots of ideas for those too.

You mentioned collards. Five things you can do with collards are:

- Dice up other raw veggies and make an avocado dressing and then wrap them in collards

- Shred them and put them in summer rolls in place of lettuce

- Put them in smoothies

- Sautee them with onions, garlic, salt, pepper etc.

- Add them in to salad

There's lots of other things to do with them I'm sure, but I'm still learning myself. I just know how important they are for calcium and stuff.

10:00am-6 bisquits

4:00pm- small plate of collard greens(mixed with mushrooms,carrots,potatoes, baby spinach and fresh garlic)

7:00pm- 2 plates of greens with 7 biscuits.

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5:15am- 2c oats w/banana and box of raisins

10:30- honeycrisp apple (large)

11:00- handful of unsalted mixed nuts

12:45- honeycrisp apple (large)

1:45- Amy's pizza -3 out of 4 pieces

4:45- biscuits -5 total

7:15pm- Collard greens w/baby spinach,carrots,mushrooms,potatoes,pole beans, and garlic. Glass of Milos Tea

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I think im going to give up. Im injured right now and not sure when Im ever going to touch a weight for upper body. My calories were crazy high yesterday. Even though I like low calories and low body fat i think im just going to give up and start eating like a mad man again.

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What's the injury man? Sorry to hear that.

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Its my right elbow(1 of the few) that was really bothering me. I do really high reps and after a workout a couple weeks ago I felt pains like Ive never felt in there and I felt nerve type shocks throughout my forearms and such. it sucked. I took 9 days off and got back to doing basic things monday(bodyweight exercises). I have only felt it a few times since but not unbearable like it was. It seems that I have to resort back to BW exercises and light weight to get back into it which I have all this week. I was just down when i wrote that and kind of scared cause I have never felt that kind of pain before. I feel better and actually killed my arms yest which hurt like hell today so Im better. I will probably start posting my diet again next week or by this weekend. Thanks for asking and being concerned.

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Ouch, that's too bad. Yeah it gets me down when I am injured and have to slow down, but it sounds like you will recover from it

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So it looks like your eating fairly low calorie and really low protein. How do you retain lean muscle on that kind of a diet?

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The (Vegan) Dating Coach
Buy me a drink if your gonna hit on me like that!
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I workout! haha. I dont believe you need as much protein as everyone seems to think.

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