My quest for a completely animal free diet

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21 years old, New York City

Vegetarian since July 4th, 2009
Pseudo-vegan since January 1st, 2011

100% VEGAN since December 1st, 2011

Why?
- My health
- Love of animals
- To Protect the environment
- I like it!

Using this blog to keep myself in check with cheating, especially with chocolate or small snacks that contain milk ingredients that I eat anyway sometimes!! =(

Also going to keep tabs on my exercise on a daily basis, general feelings of health, and on a less consistent basis, my size/weight.

I've focused on weight loss before and I tend to yo-yo and I realized it's finally time to take that energy and channel it into something I can more readily control, such as the choice to keep toxic animal byproducts, hormones, and artificial ingredients OUT of my body!

P.S. If you are a vegan/vegetarian/health related blog and you follow me, I will follow you back from my main tumblr, presentlaughter =)

This just in!

When you eat a spinach calzone at midnight, your 8am run the next morning will be a slow one!!

But at least I didn’t stop, and I made it 3 miles! Getting back into it =)

Back from a nice 20 minute jog in the park before shower and church!


Back from a nice 20 minute jog in the park before shower and church!

I’m back….

It has been a very long time since I logged into this blog.

I am currently sticking to a strict vegetarian diet… absolutely no meat, fish, shellfish, or even eggs and milk. I have, however, reintroduced small amounts of cheese, yogurt, and butter into my diet (though butter is VERY minimal, as I find Earth Balance preferable anyway).

I also found there were things in my life that required more time and attention then my eating habits, for the sake of my mental health and for my family and overall quality of life.

But, now that things are back on track… I have once again been paying more attention to my meals, cooking more and making more vegan meals (even for my boyfriend!!) and I have been focusing on exercise again!  I decided I would like to get back into blogging about health and fitness, even just for my own personal use.

So… here I am! =)

sailorvegan:

vegoutwithyour—out:

Looks tasty!
Eliminating Gluten from my diet as a part of Lent.

So, I’ll be a gluten-free vegan.  One step closer to raw =)

sunshel:

1. Soy
2. Diet soda
3. Sugar
4. Coffee

findvegan:

Spinach-Coconut Chickpea Fritters!

findvegan:

Spinach-Coconut Chickpea Fritters!

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