December 2009
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Where Have All the Cookies Gone?
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One of the most difficult things for me during this journey has been curbing my sweet tooth. I love baking chocolate chip cookies, gingerbread cookies, almond cookies, sugared pecans, etc. (The Joy of Vegan baking is one of my favorite cookbooks, along with the Veganomicon for cakes.) However, I have slowed down my baking since Tom has embarked on this journey of a...
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Kale
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Right around a year after I chose to be vegan I discovered kale and I instantly thought, “Kale, where have you been all my life?” I love Kale; there are so many amazing ways to prepare and eat it. It is one of the best foods you can eat, which is why my wife and I eat some form of kale at least three times a week.
Kale is a super nutritious vegetable. It has antioxidant...
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Weekly Weigh In, 12/11/09
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This morning I weighed in at 248.0 pounds which means I have lost 1.6 pounds in the last week and 26.8 pounds since August 16th, 2009, according to skinnyr my BMI is now 36.62. To be honest I am a little disappointed with this number, I went to the gym three nights this past week and I burned over 2000 calories according to the machines I was working on, not to mention we had...
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The Eliptical is My Friend
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So last night around 7:30 PM I sent out a tweet to the world that said “Sitting on the couch after dinner and slowly losing the motivation to go to the gym tonight, help!” I really wanted nothing more than to have a glass of wine and call it a night, but for some reason I actually got up off my butt and put one foot in front of the other and made it out the door.
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First Serious Gym Visit
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Michelle and I hit up our local Planet Fitness for the first time since I began this whole process of getting healthy, which is kind of a shame since that was almost four months ago. I am really glad that we went as the gym is going to be an essential part of my life in order to stay A Healthy Vegan, it is one of those priorities that I need to change, but I had forgotten how...
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Weekly Weigh In, 12/04/09
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I weighed in this morning at 249.6, which means I have lost 25.2 pounds since August 16th and 0.8 pounds in the last week, according to skinnyr my BMI is 36.86, still severely obese.
Would I like to be lighter? Sure I would but to be honest I am kinda living on the high of still being below 250 pounds. Now 2 weeks ago I was 247.2 my lightest ever, I am accounting this...