Mina

Thanks love! I think I'm getting there too. I wasn't able to work out today, and I'm pretty bummed out about it. I tossed and turned last night, had nightmares of being on the Rachel Ray show & her guest was killing baby chickens on tv with salad prongs, heh. It really disturbed me lol. Anyways, all that to say, I was still sick and couldn't get enough sleep before work even without working out. Sleep is vital to me, seemingly more so than for the average north American. I feel extremely and terribly uncomfortable all day if I can't get enough; my body & head aches, I can't seem to shake the grumps out of me lol and its just a state I premised myself I wouldn't be in at work, if I could avoid it. It will end up making me hate my job, something I don't want to have to do, since I will have to work for a very long time lol. I'm looking forward to tomorrow. I work at 11 so I have plenty of time to get a good nights rest and workout, cats & dreams permitting lol Today, I had some Vega pre-energizer regardless, as its a healthier & tastier source of caffeine than the coffee I have access to. I then had a raw active greens chocolate bar, a go4trim supplement, Amy's microwave enchiladas, hemp chips and hommus. For dinner I ate cookies, miso soup and a chard/red lettuce salad. Just ate some toast, butter & hommus bed time snack heh.

Oi that's no good, take care of yourself mister! Today, I will hopefully feel better, be well-rested & rdy to start jogging again!

Aww lol take care of yourself love! I'm not feeling as hot today either, and had to wake up at 5:30 for a 7 am meeting. Can't even get 8+ hrs of sleep when I'm sick lol. Thankfully, its an off day as far as working out goes, so I don't have to wake up even earlier. Breakfast Coffee, soy creamer & Stevia. Snack Some cookie-like thing that I made lol which had old style oat meal, hemp seeds, chia seeds, coconut oil, peanut butter, sesame seed butter, & 1 mashed banana. Lunch 2 home made sandwiches, consisting of high fiber bread, Tofurky, Vegenaise, mustard, lettuce and a few shreds of Daiya. Dinner Had a go4trim stick from Genuine Health, a big homemade salad of red chard, curly lettuce, Braggs liquid aminos, lemon juice, fresh garlic & onions, and my herbal seasoning mix, along with some homemade miso soup. So full lol.

Oh man, I wasn't that bad though, just ended up having the sniffles, sneezies, & I knew I wouldn't be able to work out tomorrow. =D course, I was also taking this potent herbal mix when I got to work which has helped =) Hope you didn't make yourself worse!

Oh! Side note! I just discovered that there is a gym near my work! Crazy! I'll try to check it out soon & see if I can't just go there before work & then shower and change when I'm done =D

Monday I feel sick today. My head hurts & my nose is stuffy. I'll go jog anyways & just walk if it's too tough. Took some pre-workout energizer, then blended up some Vega meal optimizer, bananas, berries, & rice protein with water. Ate 2 apples, a raw active greens chocolate bar, big salad, and homemade sandwich with Tofurky, vegenaise, Dijon, lettuce & some Daiya on some high fiber bread.

Sunday Weight: 120ish Burned jogged for 20mins, 140 Consumed: Vega pre-workout Energizer, Vega whole meal optimizer in a smoothy with half a cup of banana & berries, coconut milk, green powder supplement, extra rice protein & omegas 369. I sampled the new go4trim fiber supplement from genuine health which made me feel buzzed, had 2 homemade sandwiches, then tried to make some high fiber protein bars to snack on while at work. They turned out alright for a first attempt and no recipe. Oh, and I had an endurance bar from Vega.

thanks ! Looks like I can't just keep adding to a previous post AND stay subscribed, as my app is a jerk and somehow loses track of this one, forcing me to use FireFox to find it instead... defeating the purpose of an app... ugh, w/e. Anyways, hopefully posting now will put my journal at the top of the list now, so going back to app... Note: oh goody, there it is... /facepalm. Now back to posting from my app.

Agreed, for all the reasons Chrisjs brought up.

Thanks! =D

You're very welcome & I need your cheese recipe lol Daiya & Sheese can be pricey, if you can even get the latter, but they are quite nice to have on special occasion at least =)

Congrats! Awesome health recovery from abstaining from animal derived ingredients. Mind if I share your store anonymously on FB with my friends? =)

Aww thanks love =) It does get easier to count them, and I'm happy the counter has a lot of basics like fruits & veggies (just not vegenaise for instance lol). I like to keep track of them so I don't risk eating less than what I need of protein, and so I can get the most out of my training =) Do me a fav? Can you tell me if you see double of the second to last entry I posted? Lol I see double, but in case its a glitch on my side, I don't wanna delete the whole thing lol

Oups.. double post!

I started this journal by adding how many calories I was eating a day, but because the app I'm using doesn't seem to recognise half the food I'm eating (bar code scanner - its a calorie counting app with the least permissions, so it has its down sides), I have to manually enter everything I eat... And it was getting tedious so I had stopped. Then I started just jotting down what I'm eating & now I started up again, slowly entering the nutritional info of my food into my app as I go. So, soon, ill be able to jot down just the name of the meal I ate in this journal, and for how many calories in no time! =D This way, I'm not overwhelming myself, which helps me not just quit because its getting hard. Baby steps is what I gotta do. Heck, I still can't believe I'm even on this site lol. I want to bodybuild again, but I'm so not mentally, physically, financially, or even situationally capable at this time, but ill never be if I don't start somewhere =)

Bored? How odd. Try watching Earthlings too, esp the end when they get into animal testing. Buy a new vegan cook book, check out barnivour.com for vegan booze, go to veganessentials.com, go to where Veganism started: at the vegan society's website! Buy some vegan condoms &/or lube, get on this website, go to vegan meet-ups! Bored? Just odd!

Either its so long ago that I can't remember, or I never noticed any changes. I was already a quasi vegetarian around the last year of my vegetarianism, but doing drugs & spiraling down. I decided to get my life in order, quit the drugs, eat better, take my supplements and become a better vegetarian. Then I discovered Veganism & never looked back. All that to say, there was so much going on as far as physical changes, that I couldn't attribute any in particular to Veganism. What I can say is, I still feel amazing with each vegan meal I eat, each vegan product I buy, each time I do anything really that is related to animal rights. I'm part of the solution and its so uplifting, even after over 13 years.

Haha I know right, and thank you so much X)

Yea, Karen is totally right. I used to be a big cheese fan, ate it with everything I could. After going vegan, it was a tough transition. I never gave in, which made it easier to pass quickly, but I really missed it. At the time, we didn't even have any decent vegan brands lol, they all had the consistency of rubber & didn't taste too swell. Now when I smell cheese, I gag. I smell the animal in it, if that makes any sense. Like, it smells like a barn lol. Thankfully, vegans today have Daiya & Blut Island Sheese <3

LOL truth! Look out for me! XD

I have always disliked jogging, so I don't just jog at a steady pace. I jog taking small steps, big steps, side ways to the right then to the left, backwards, etc. When I have to stop for traffic or because the dog wants to sniff something, I'll do jumping jacks, dance, or w/e comes to mind. I'm also trying to sweat as much as I can during this time, to help my body detox itself. Since I'm usually cold, I end up having to wear a long sleeve shirt, sweat pants, a hoodie with the hood on & tied in place, and sometimes 2 hoodies lol. Florida summers are nice because I can usually sweat up a good storm with just shorts and a t-shirt =) To make sure I look extra dorky, ill often have bentonite clay spotted on my face over pimples... heh. Hey, sometimes ya gotta look ugly to look pretty.. that's my story & I'm sticking to it!

Welcome! So glad you could join us! I'm in florida as well, Tampa Bay area =)

It's so cool that you're starting to see your 6 pack! I can't wait either. My weight has been the same since I started too... even though I have probably been "working out" for less time than you. If it helps any, after I read Fat Wars by Brad J King, and a few other weight loss / bodybuilding articles, I stopped putting as much value in my weight as a reliable indicator of my progress. Instead, it was suggested by these sources that I one uses measuring tape to measure arms, chest, tummy, waist, & legs, if nothing else. Course, I still have to go find some tape heh. Does this help or am I off on the wrong track? lol

I didn't think so as I only jog and haven't been putting the food I eat up here, but thank you very much. And YUS, I shall find it again!

Dam lol, your journal is so much better than mine. Hopefully this new tapatalk app will make it easier for me to post this kind of stuff.. so tedious to keep track of it all lol