Well I did catch the triathlon bug. It is now 9 years that I do triathlon. Mainly sprint and olympic distance but next year in June I am subscribed to a half ironman ( )
I cycle outdoors when it is not rainy and above 3°C. Otherwise I cycle indoor (meaning mainly January - February)

Hi,
I’ve been following a WFPB lifestyle since 2012. I’ve lost 140# with 35# to lose to goal. I’ve been a member of TOPS(take pounds off sensibly) since 2007. I love playing pickleball and knitting.

Welcome @TrueBlueVegan !
Is TOPS another group on this forum ? Or what is it ? I like the name in any case

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Hello @MKWXIII

Welcome to the group. I hope we can achieve our respective goals thanks to this community support

Do you have a nick name we can use ? Or real name ?
That pseudo name is quite difficult to remember ahah

Melissa or MKW
either is fine ☺

Welcome in the group Laurie

Hi Denee !

Great results on your blood pressure, well done

So happy to find this group! My name is Sandy and I'm looking for vegan friends here ☺️ please add me if you like, I find the accountability so motivating 😊

I became aware of this group from a post that @AnnPT77 made elsewhere. It sounded interesting, so here I am!

I was a vegetarian for 30 years. It started in seventh grade when I read an article in Consumer Reports that said people could get all the protein they needed without eating meat. I decided to forego red meat for 30 days, just as an experiment, and well, things just went from there.

Over those three decades, I would waiver back and forth about eating dairy or eggs. From time to time I slid into a pescatarian approach. During that time, my family also started moving towards a healthier way of eating. My mother was a big fan of Diet for a Small Planet. My uncle and aunt's family was doing Pritikin. We ate well. I learned good lessons on how to cook, and that has served me well throughout my life.

I don't remember when, but I became an omnivore. One reason was to make it easier for people to plan river trips. I do multi-day self-supported river trips every year, and everyone shares meal planning and cooking. In order to make it easier for my fellow travelers to plan, my ex and I just decided that we would not impose any restrictions on meal planning. The exception is my ex said that, "Dinner can't just be a steak - there has to be vegetables." Kind of interesting because some of the people I boat with HAVE to have meat at almost every meal.

Currently I really don't eat much meat at all In general I avoid eating poultry because of the way most domestic fowl live and die. Actually, even when I was not eating meat, I would eat wild game, and I still will. I am an angler. I am also a SCUBA diver, and sometimes I collect Dungeness crabs while diving.

I love to cook. I also love to eat. Enter MyFitnessPal! Back before about 2017, I realized it was time to make some changes. I didn't want to subscribe to a commercial service, so I was using the USDA "SuperTracker" website. It was for sure klunkier than MFP, but it was not run by a business. Well, they decided to roll up their operation, and I poked around at a couple different other options and settled on MFP. Next month marks six years. I log every day, although sometimes it's from a wild estimate. I like to go on multi-day river trips, so I have a "recipe" called "Rafter's Rations" that's just a huge number of calories made up of fat, carbohydrate, and protein. I just log that for every day I'm gone and call it good. I still try to pay attention when on these trips or otherwise away. You can't manage what you don't measure, so I pretty much always show up. It works. I lost the weight I needed to lose in the first year, and I have <mostly> maintained with some gains that started around the time we were dealing with COVID. I've been up and down since then, and it's all OK. Well mostly. Sometimes I get frustrated. Who doesn't? But mostly I accept that I'm going to bounce around, and I will not go back to where I was before 2017.

I hope I'm welcome to stick around even though my way of eating does include honey, eggs, dairy, yeast and every now and then parts of animals. Yeast is actually more closely related to animals than plants. I do eat lots of plants. I grow lots of fruits and often have a vegetable garden. I like whole grains and legumes, and I love roasting vegetables.

Hi Phyllis !

Welcome
What is your objective ?

Welcome!

I'm pretty new here too. It's a friendly bunch!

If you have a food dehydrator, you can make your own backpacking meals. Friends do this for self-support multi-day kayak trips where we carry everything we need for a week or more in our whitewater kayaks or canoes. That includes clothes, food, water bottles and filtration system, tent, sleeping system, toilet system, stove, and everything we need.

What you can do is when you make a meal, make a double-batch. Eat half. Weigh the other half, then put it in the dehydrator until it's really super dry. Weigh it again. The difference in weight is how much water to add back since a gram is a CC, and an ounce is an ounce. Vacuum seal or use zip-seal bags. Write how much water is needed on every bag. You can keep the in the freezer until you're ready to go.

When you get to camp, add the amount of water indicated, and then let it sit for a little while. It doesn't take long. Then heat gently on your backpack stove. Boom! Home cooked meal!

For pasta, cook it first and then dehydrate it. It sounds counterintuitive, but do it. Avoid very oily things.