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I saw Food Inc. which planted a few seeds about how animals are treated in today's modern farming practices. A year later I saw an image on Facebook of baby cows, only hours old, at a veal farm. So I spent the weekend watching videos online and was vegan by Monday.

I find it very hard to hit my potassium intake as well. I'm restricting to 1200 calories a day, so this doesn't help. I can usually get to about 3500 mg/day by eating: potato or sweet potato (with the skin), spinach (at least 2 cups), banana, cantaloupe and avocado or asparagus. I also have at least one big glass (8 oz) of…

You get B12 from animal products, or from products fortified with B12. Vegans are typically deficient, eventually (it take a while to deplete the stores). I am one of them and so I supplement with a B12 daily. I get my blood checked every six months and my B12 levels are fine on the supplements. (I also take iron, D3 and…

I love the detailed breakdown of Cronometer. The database seems much more sparse than MFP, however. How do you get around that? Have you simply entered all of your most common foods yourself? I did notice the Cronometer seemed to somehow be hooked up to some large gov't type databases, but I wasn't sure how that worked. Is…

My diary is public, btw, if you want some insight. My diet the past two weeks has been pretty balanced for nutrients (except yesterday. Don't look at yesterday. It was a lazy couch day. :)

Where do you think you are deficient? In tracking my micronutrients, I find I have to take B12, D3, calcium, iron, and potassium supplements. I was taking these anyway, but now I have the math to back it up. As you track, you will see where you need help. Cronometer.com breaks down the micronutrients in far more detail…

Technically I'm vegetarian, but I really am ethically opposed to dairy, so I call myself vegan. Truth be told, I have about 2-4 eggs a week.

Thanks, Club. I have been quasi-vegan for 4 years now. I take B12, calcium, magnesium, iron and d3 daily. I'm a chronic migraineur so have bi-annual bloodwork done to check my levels. I've just discovered chronometer.com tonight so I've been rummaging around there checking things out. Pretty excited to be able to monitor…

Thank you, Christine!

I should clarify. I am not 100% vegan as I still eat eggs (we get them from my uncle's chickens, they are pastured hens). But other than that... yup.

You can have a peak at mine. I'm logging in my recipes as I make them, too. I'm new here tho, so there's not tons to see yet. I'm going to snoop in yours if you don't mind! :)

Smoked tofu. Cut into thin strips and marinate in 1T soy sauce, 1T maple syrup, 1tspn hickory smoke, 1/2tspn smoked paprika overnight. Fry it up and it makes for a pretty good BLT. There is also a Facebook group called What Fat Vegans Eat where some posters have recently been experimenting with making 'vacon' out of rice…

I'm having a veggie burger and salad right now. Even if the condiment quantities are off, it's only mustard, tomato and onion. And the salad might vary, too, but it's salad. :)

Vegan for many years, but new to MFP (just over a month). 10 pounds lost so far. Loving having the ability to track my protein without too much hassle! Feel free to add me.

Oh, and whatever you do, no matter how bad you want off the steroids, make sure to follow your prescription for tapering. You can withdraw pretty bad on this drug (I did, and the pain was pretty intense!) so tapering is critical. As an aside, my dog was on prednisone for several months last year. He went from being a dog…

I was on steroids for 6 weeks after brain surgery five years ago. The weight gain was terrible. It actually hurt, it came on so fast. But then I was on a very high dose as it was designed to combat brain swelling. In any case, all of the weight and hunger goes away pretty quickly after you're off the drug, so don't beat…

Another Canuck here. Fergus, ON.

I'm a vegan, and so my husband's homemade multigrain bread (with peanut butter) is a great source of protein for me. I usually have 2-4 slices per day (since starting MFP a month ago), and I've lost 8 pounds so far.

I'm about 95% vegan (sometimes inadvertently have dairy or eggs when dining out). I've been vegan for 4 years, for the animals, not the health. So I ate a lot of crap. And gained a bunch of weight (15lbs). En route to fixing that now! one of the great things about this website is that I see now I wasn't getting as much…