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I am doing the Starting Strength program. It's only my fourth session so far after way too long of a hiatus, but I plan on continuing to lift heavy and eventually compete in powerlifting. Also anyone else who is doing a similar program or SS can add me!

I do Starting Strength, and his recommendation for finding a beginner weight for your first workout is to warm up with the empty bar and then add 5-10 lbs at a time, do 5 reps, and then once you start to slow down a bit, that becomes the work set for the first session and you will increase from there. With programs like SS…

I use soylent as a semi-primary source of food/nutrition. Essentially it's powdered food without a lot of fillers or additives or sugars, and I normally use it as 1000 calories a day and drink protein shakes pre/post workout. I still count my calories and log it, but it has helped me with cravings as well as improving my…

I really like The Vegan Stoner for easy recipes that don't take a lot of prep work. The Vegan 8 has recipes that are all eight ingredients or less and they're vegan, gluten-free, and oil-free, although I haven't tried any of their recipes.

I can vouch for Raw Meal working well. It's my favorite meal replacement and the taste gets better over time. Raw Meal is also much cheaper than Shakeology and has twice the protein, with a better ingredients list. If you are going to drink a meal replacement shake, at least get something better than Shakeology and your…

I'm vegan too! I haven't been as active lately, but I'm working on logging regularly again.

Is there a running or shoe store near you? They would be able to evaluate how you run and recommend the best shoe for you. I personally wear vibram five fingers, which are super comfortable and most of the shoes are vegan, but they are about $100 a pair, unless you can get them on sale.

Well if you are interested in the ethical side of why I went vegan, I decided that I no longer wanted to consume or use animals in my life. I watched Earthlings and it made me realize how horribly we treat these other beings on our planet and I didn't want to contribute to their suffering any more. Veganism is a lifestyle…

I agree with this. I have been a vegan who lost 40 lbs from eating vegan foods and a vegan who put back on those 40 lbs by eating more vegan foods. Veganism itself is a lifestyle against animal consumption and is not a weight loss diet. A plant-based diet excludes animal products for health reasons and could definitely be…

I'm vegan for ethical reasons and eat a whole foods plant-based diet for health reasons. Weight loss isn't necessarily something that happens just from going vegan, but if you are eating a whole foods plant-based diet, you would be eating a lot of veggies, fruits, and other high-nutrient, low-calorie foods, so eating that…

I have a fitbit that is synced with MFP. I only enter my exercise on the fitbit and only enter my food on MFP. On the fitbit website, it has a place where you can enter the type of exercise as well as duration and calories burned (if you know it), and it will "overwrite" any previous activity during that timeframe that the…

I've been a vegan for almost 4 years! I eat a high carb low fat diet with as much raw as possible, and my diary is open to friends.

I just got my Charge HR yesterday! https://www.fitbit.com/user/39YHYX

This is great, especially the importance of supplementation with DHA+EPA, D, and B12.

Salads are probably the quickest and easiest meal options. Vegetables with hummus or a veggie/hummus wrap. Tofu scramble. Quinoa with roasted veggies. If you prep in advance, you can cook a lot at one time and freeze it in individual portions so all you have to do for lunch and dinner is defrost a serving of food. The…

I live in the South, so I can completely relate to not knowing any other plant-eaters. I eat high carb low fat following the Eat to Live plan, love to cook, and have been working on getting a regular exercise schedule. I'll send you a friend request, and anyone else is welcome to send me a request as well!

Matcha is my favorite tea, and I just did a matcha latte this afternoon! Can anyone recommend a good brand though? Right now I have a couple of tins that I got from my parents who didn't like it, but when I'm through with those, I want to buy some decent tea. I personally right now do make yerba mate in a french press.…

A plant-based diet makes so much sense from economics, environmental, and philosophical standpoints. I think with the rise of documentaries like Blackfish and The Cove, people are starting to realize that animals are a lot more intelligent than they thought and it will only be a matter of time before that perception of…

Yep we do 30-45 minutes at least once a day with shorter walks throughout the day (high energy dog means a lot of work for me). But I live in the southeast, so the bad weather for me is in the summer when it's prohibitively hot. We also like hiking at state parks or unpaved trails when the weather is nice.

There are so many ways to be a healthy, fit vegan that I don't think you should obsess about whether or not coconut oil will be a detriment. If you want to eat coconut oil, include it in your calorie count and let your macros work themselves out based on a varied and balanced diet. If you're like me and dislike religiously…

Casein was my nemesis for a while and it kept popping up in the most annoying places ("veggie" cheese, here's to you). With that being said, the Silk plain soy creamer is pretty decent. I wouldn't recommend the french vanilla flavor though.

Yep! I have a GSD/Malinois mix so my workout is his warmup. We do 30-40 minute walks with a little jog (in the grass for him since he's still young) most mornings. He is 11 months old and ready to get leaner and put on some muscle, so we've been steadily increasing our physical activity (or at least his) to a couple hours…

900 calories per day is wrong by any nutritional standard, vegan or not, and I'm surprised to hear a nutritionist tell you that. I'd recommend doing your own research on vegan nutrition (not implying that you haven't already, so everything I say might be old news to you) so stuff like this doesn't dissuade you. Jack Norris…