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Macros are so individual. What works for one person won’t work well for another. Our exercise routines (or lack thereof) would affect macros. Chart every bite, and those logbooks will help you learn what works for your own individual body. We are all our own science project. 😉 I’ve found a couple cookbooks I rely on…

Vegan 10 years, lacto-ovo vegetarian for 21 years prior to going vegan. 56 years old.

Oh! And Nordstrom locally had bags made by Sole Society that are vegan. I don't know if the whole product line is vegan, or just select items. Nice, plus you get Nordstrom backing the return if necessary.

Jambu (JBU) makes several vegan shoes and boots. Not ALL their products are vegan, but I love the ones I've purchased that are. They're a quality material that took well to re-soling at the shoe repair store, and I wore them all summer and they didn't take on any off smells in the heat. Best? They were easy to purchase at…

Ohhhhh. I think I get it...it doesn't post to our profiles, does it? Ahhhh. Wisdom. Enlightenment. Boom! Ready for 2014, the year of my run.

Help! I want in for 100, created my ticker at the factory, but can't figure out how to copy/paste it to my profile or signature. Can u give me a quick step-by-step? Thanks! F

When u get a negative reaction from guys, have you considered that this is a great way to weed out the riffraff? Not that HE would need to be vegan, but a guy who immediately condemns your food intake and puts u in a stereotypical box cuz it's easier than actually getting to know you sounds more than a little unsupportive…

yes. do it. donate those clothes. i slacked off and started gaining, and when i reached 10 lbs of gain, my clothes felt miserable. if i still had one size up i would've kept goofing around about getting serious about losing that 10. it was a great wake-up call to say "welp, you can wear the same two outfits everyday or you…

Yes, I hear ya. I was sooooo self-conscious because I'm super slow, and not the lithe, trim runner I imagined I would be. I live in a small town, in a well-lit neighborhood, and I started running at pre-dawn hours, or at night. I realize I'm lucky to live in the place I do, though, and it is risky no matter where one…

Wow! Sounds delicious, this jerky stuff. Thanks for the tip.

Finally got around to looking this up. Thanks for this post. I live an hour or so from her area, and felt very inspired by her story.

Thanks! I didn't know about the gingerbread.

You said my own thoughts very well. Thank you.

Thanks. That's reassuring.

thanks. good point about the money thing. smile. and congratulations on the grand prize at fundraising! wow! so many animals helped! i'm more worried about turning a solitary activity into a group one. i'm not a group person by nature. but i also live in a teeny tiny town, so i am likely to be a team of two.

I think it means their recipe changes from time to time depending on who knows what? But this way they're covered.

My wedding ring needed to be reduced in size too! Pretty fun to be smaller than when u got hitched!

I've had a similar walk to yours weight-wise. I will say more movement helps me get to the other side. I know u say u hv tried your c25k numerous times--I would counter that with when I was a vegetarian many, many times I attempted being a vegan. I failed easily 5 or 6 times. Then one day I didn't fail. And one day turned…

I dumped big clothes as I went along. Once I was steadily wearing the next size down for a couple weeks, out the old size went. The downside, I hv no back-sliding clothes. The upside, NO BACK-SLIDING. I took two months off from going to the gym, started eating what I want in mass quantities, and now my clothes are…

If I were u (and since I'm not I guy for starters, I'm not u), I would go online to body building vegan websites. If those guys don't know protein ratios for vegans, I don't know who would. Veganly and too sedentarily, Dinahcakes

My doc said those slow-loss years are the ones that make people give up, thinking they just can't lose weight. The key is to stick through with it even when the going is slow. Good for you! Powerful loss, slow loss, doesn't matter which kind of weight loss--it all beats what the past years were for us. What u had was a…

Mcdougall website or books can help u on the "no oil salad dressing" front.

I luv pumpkin pie. Please. Share this recipe? My last vegan pumpkin pie attempt failed tragically.

Am I mistaken, or aren't all the fake meats high in sodium (which is why I luuuuuuuuv them too much)?

Small slow cooker: high protein chili (vegan) 1 cup chopped onion 1 can Eden brand no salt black soy beans, drained 2 cups crushed tomatoes (I used my garden's over-abundance of tomatoes, peeled and whirred with a hand blender) 1 package Westsoy brand seitan cubes, drained, chopped a little smaller than they come in the…

Best posting of an update ever! Thanks so much for sharing! Blessings on your next 500 days!

You look so beautiful and so much younger! Great work!

Try visiting PCRM.org. Click on the health and nutrition drop-down, and choose your topic. They offer all kinds of information and meal plans. Congratulations on choosing to be a vegetarian!

Tempeh. I super thin slice it, marinate it overnight in a little lite soy sauce and liquid smoke. In the morning my favorite breakfast is quick fry the tempeh slices and make a TLT (tempeh, lettuce, tomato) sandwich on Ezekiel bread.

At first mine got bigger. As I lost more and more weight they got smaller. I was pretty surprised. I didn't think there was any changing them. My shoe size even decreased by a half size. Seriously? Yes. Meaning I was truly packing fat THROUGHOUT my body, even on my calves and my feet? Kind of embarrassing. Kind of a relief…