former figure/fitness competitor

[ReneeWojo]

Hello. I'm newly vegan. I'm loving the lifestyle but struggling to find a balance with my nutrition while stripping some body fat to get back to somewhere close to my avatar pic.

 

From Canada living in the DC area.

 

hope to learn from you all!

[robert]

Welcome to the team!

 

Great to have you!

 

We have a few competitors here and more and more joining all the time it seems. I'm sure you'll find that balance that helps you get shredded and lean on a vegan diet.

 

All the best and welcome aboard!

 

-Robert

[horsedoc]

Welcome to the forum, glad you are here.

 

How can we help? Where are you now and where do you want to be?

 

What is your diet currently? What are your struggles?

[djshrew]

Welcome!!! awesome another female in the DC area!!!

[ReneeWojo]

Thanks for the warm welcome! I am not competing or fitness modeling anymore but I'd love to look that way again lol!

Currently: 5'7 and 145 lbs

Goal: 137 lbs

Diet struggles seem to be getting a gram of protein per pound of body weight or close to so I researched some vegan protein powders and will give it a shot. I graze too much at night so that's done

 

DIET:

M1: 1 cup Silk w/1 cup frozen banana, 2 tbsp flax meal

M2: apple and 10 almonds

M3: 3/4 cup tabouleh, 3/4 cup black beans, 1 cup steamed green beans

M4: 1 plum, 10 almonds

M5: (oops, 2 Vega bars!!)

M6: TBD

 

Training: cardio 6xweek, weights 3-4/week

[beforewisdom]

Hello. I'm newly vegan. I'm loving the lifestyle but struggling to find a balance with my nutrition while stripping some body fat to get back to somewhere close to my avatar pic.

 

From Canada living in the DC area.

 

hope to learn from you all!

 

Hi Rene;

 

The DC area has a LOT of resources for vegans:

 

VEG-DC: Vegan Resources Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area

There is a great list, over 10 years old, for vegans and vegetarians in the area to network about what is local,cool, and veg*n. This list is unaffiliated

with vegdc.com

https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/veg-dc

 

Compassion Over Killing

COK puts a great veg*n restaurant and veg*n resource guide for the DC Metro area:

http://www.vegdc.com/

 

COK also organizes a lot of volunteer activities to promote veganism that are a great way to have fun and meet area vegans:

http://www.cok.net

 

The Vegetarian Society Of The District Of Columbia has some nice non-political events some times:

http://www.vsdc.org

 

They advertise many of their events through this meetup.com group:

http://vegan.meetup.com/28/

 

Poplar Springs Animal Sanctuary

Local animal sanctuary that takes volunteers to help care for the rescued former livestock animals. Horses, cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys, goats etc. It is a quick drive but in a nice, quiet rural area. They do a few events a year

http://www.animalsanctuary.org/

 

 

Humane League Of Baltimore

also does cool stuff and is run by high energy, positive, grass roots people:

http://www.baltimoreanimalrights.com/

 

Glut is a 100% vegetarian workers collective / natural food store:

http://www.glut.org

 

There is also a chapter of "Organic Athlete" in the area, just google on it.

 

There is also an extremely useful Facebook group called "vegdc.com"

[horsedoc]

Thanks for the warm welcome! I am not competing or fitness modeling anymore but I'd love to look that way again lol!

Currently: 5'7 and 145 lbs

Goal: 137 lbs

Diet struggles seem to be getting a gram of protein per pound of body weight or close to so I researched some vegan protein powders and will give it a shot. I graze too much at night so that's done

 

DIET:

M1: 1 cup Silk w/1 cup frozen banana, 2 tbsp flax meal

M2: apple and 10 almonds

M3: 3/4 cup tabouleh, 3/4 cup black beans, 1 cup steamed green beans

M4: 1 plum, 10 almonds

M5: (oops, 2 Vega bars!!)

M6: TBD

 

Training: cardio 6xweek, weights 3-4/week

 

I am a bit of a heretic here, but I will tell you that I do not concern myself with getting a gram of protein per pound of bodyweight. I do focus on eating as much real food as possible, staying low fat and eating a lot of greens.

 

Comments on your diet:

 

M1: I would recommend trying a substitute of a banana green smoothie that consists of 3 bananas, 2-4 large handfuls of spinach (the more the better), the flax meal and water as needed to get either a smoothie or pudding consistency.

 

M2: best not to mix fruit and nuts as you have a rapidly digesting food and a super slow one since nuts are fatty, so do the fruit in one snack and the nuts in another or wait at least a half hour after the fruit to then have the nuts

 

M3: seems okay but might want to increase the veggies as they are filling and super low calorie and high nutrition

 

M4: same comments as M2

 

M5: I would suggest a large salad instead of food bars

 

M6: could move the salad to here or eat steamed veggies or skip it depending on how late you are eating. If night eating is an issue then make it a salad with a ton of greens to fill you up. I find that drinking tea when I'm hungry at night helps also.

 

Just my 2 cents worth!

[ReneeWojo]

 

Hi Rene;

 

The DC area has a LOT of resources for vegans:

 

VEG-DC: Vegan Resources Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area

There is a great list, over 10 years old, for vegans and vegetarians in the area to network about what is local,cool, and veg*n. This list is unaffiliated

with vegdc.com

https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/veg-dc

 

Compassion Over Killing

COK puts a great veg*n restaurant and veg*n resource guide for the DC Metro area:

http://www.vegdc.com/

 

COK also organizes a lot of volunteer activities to promote veganism that are a great way to have fun and meet area vegans:

http://www.cok.net

 

The Vegetarian Society Of The District Of Columbia has some nice non-political events some times:

http://www.vsdc.org

 

They advertise many of their events through this meetup.com group:

http://vegan.meetup.com/28/

 

Poplar Springs Animal Sanctuary

Local animal sanctuary that takes volunteers to help care for the rescued former livestock animals. Horses, cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys, goats etc. It is a quick drive but in a nice, quiet rural area. They do a few events a year

http://www.animalsanctuary.org/

 

 

Humane League Of Baltimore

also does cool stuff and is run by high energy, positive, grass roots people:

http://www.baltimoreanimalrights.com/

 

Glut is a 100% vegetarian workers collective / natural food store:

http://www.glut.org

 

There is also a chapter of "Organic Athlete" in the area, just google on it.

 

There is also an extremely useful Facebook group called "vegdc.com"

 

thanks so much for taking the time to post these, I was aware of a few but not most so thanks!

[ReneeWojo]

 

I am a bit of a heretic here, but I will tell you that I do not concern myself with getting a gram of protein per pound of bodyweight. I do focus on eating as much real food as possible, staying low fat and eating a lot of greens.

 

Comments on your diet:

 

M1: I would recommend trying a substitute of a banana green smoothie that consists of 3 bananas, 2-4 large handfuls of spinach (the more the better), the flax meal and water as needed to get either a smoothie or pudding consistency.

 

M2: best not to mix fruit and nuts as you have a rapidly digesting food and a super slow one since nuts are fatty, so do the fruit in one snack and the nuts in another or wait at least a half hour after the fruit to then have the nuts

 

M3: seems okay but might want to increase the veggies as they are filling and super low calorie and high nutrition

 

M4: same comments as M2

 

M5: I would suggest a large salad instead of food bars

 

M6: could move the salad to here or eat steamed veggies or skip it depending on how late you are eating. If night eating is an issue then make it a salad with a ton of greens to fill you up. I find that drinking tea when I'm hungry at night helps also.

 

Just my 2 cents worth!

 

Excellent advice, thanks so much. I never eat bars but today I was at Whole Foods and they accidentally jumped into my mouth

 

Green tea, yes! Gotta love it

[lobsteriffic]

Welcome! Good luck reaching your goals!