chainedpunkgirl

Thanks for all the advice so far. For the most part, I really don't drink anything but water and cold tea with honey in it... when I work out, I drink almost half a 2 liter of water and drink lots of water throughout the day. I'm not really good with setting goals for myself... I told myself at the beginning of the month I was going vegan... that lasted 3 days. D= I'm really surprised at myself, it's been a few days and I've been keeping pretty consistent with my workout. Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm not REALLY looking to bulk up a LOT, I'm mostly interested in losing weight and going vegan; those are my main goals. Cooking greens ends up taking a lot of the nutrition out, yes? I try to buy raw spinach to use in sandwiches, but it ends up going bad before I can use all of it, and that's just more wasted money. I'm pretty proud of myself; I'm growing my own alfalfa sprouts! ^_^ I wish I had more money! D= edit: Also, the reason I'm not full vegan: cheese. ;_;

Ok, I didn't know where to put this, but I'm kinda lost on how to navigate this site. Lets start: I'm 23 (in a few days! ^_^) and I'm slowly going vegan, and I live with my vegetarian fiance, and an omni roommate. I don't have a job, and they are both keeping us afloat with money. Vegetarian foods are pretty expensive and my fiance is not fond of a lot of a lot of foods I try to make... (example: he loves indian food, yet hates lentils). 2 years ago, I went vegetarian, and in a years time, I went down from almost 300lbs to 230lbs, where I plateaued.. I was working at a shelter and lost a lot of weight and gained muscles, but at the end of last year, I lost my job. I haven't been able to find a job and went back up to 255. At one point I went vegan and was vegan for about 2-3 months. It was difficult, but my friends helped. Then, once I lost my job, it became almost impossible to make meals without practically making separate meals, which ended up costing MORE money. Now, I'm tired of being fat, and I want to lose weight, gain muscle, and eventually go back to being vegan. My fiance is worried I'm not getting enough protein (while he was working out, he was eating a lot of nuts and soy powders; something I'm not doing). How vegetarian am I: No meat, no fish, no lard, no gelatin. I eat honey, I don't drink milk, I don't eat butter, and I don't eat eggs, though I do eat products with those things in them. I do use bone char sugar and flour... because everything seems to be made with bone char... >_< Here's me: http://a471.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/116/l_c536ee9b6e0c4bffa47779b739b2045e.jpg http://a645.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/37/l_28c34846af4ad8eeb69a61f06b75199c.jpg Ok, to skip the long story: I'm trying to build muscle and lose weight, and go vegan. I need help learning how to do these things, while not having a job, and only having so much equipment given to me by my apartment complex in the work out room. What I've been doing: 10 minutes on the treadmill, 20 minutes on the eliptical, 20 sit ups, 20 pushups, 10 minutes on the treadmill, 20 sit ups, 20 push ups, 20 minutes on the elliptical, sauna, shower. Anyone willing to help a poor veggie wanting to become vegan?