I have been eating a plant based diet for a while now. i did this originally to see if eating plant based is sustainable and if it is healthy. i have found that it is both of these things and that there are many other eye opening reasons to avoid animal products.

i have changed and have had a few challenges in the past year. i haven't posted on here in quite some time.

i know many of you are into bodybuilding and i have went through this particular phase in my life but i'm here to talk about health and sustainability.

the plant based diet will without a doubt make your body much healthier. i feel much better without animal products. i still consume honey but its was a gift from a friend from Hawaii and once its done i'll be switching to maple syrup no doubt about that. i go to the bathroom easily, no loss of energy, my food is simple to prepare and cook. heres a few examples of things i eat.

breakfast:

most days: fruit and vegetable juice, or lots fruits.
winter: baked yams, oatmeal (hempseed, berries/apples/bananas, maple syrup)

2nd meal:

more fruit, or fruit veggie smoothie

3rd meal:
most days: salad big pyrex bowl filled with greens, rice/beans, toasted Ezekiel bread (croutons), raspberries, beet shavings, some sprouts, whatever, usually guacamole dressing
other days: veggie burritos with tofu or beans
cold days: chillie, soup

4th meal:
cooked steamed stir fry, mixed veggies anything goes, sometimes tofu, seitan, or tempeh mixed in, lots of rice/beans/split pea/lentils

desert:
fruit salad

vegan milk shake:
homemade hemp/cashew/almond/walnut milk
cacao powder
5-8 dates
dash of organic peanut butter
dash of maple syrup
dash of molasses


when i say fruit for a meal, i mean like 4 mangos, or 1 honeydew, 4 dragon fruits, 1 bunch of bananas, small buckets of lychees and/or berries


thats pretty much what i eat and i will say this. i have not been training with weights like i did a few months ago. i'm inbetween jobs right now waiting for a brand new LA fitness to open because i will be training there. i haven't really road my bike either because of the cold. i'm not a fake person i don't lie and make shit up. i've been lazy straight up, i train 3x a week tops not much at all since October. i'm definitely not as lean as i used to be. once this gym opens its 5 mins from my house by bike. i'll be back in the gym 7 days a week teaching and training people like i have been for years nows. i'm training out of a private studio as of now but its kinda small and dinky, can't wait to be back out in the park doing my bootcamp (give it one more week to get warmer) i was burnt out at my old job. when i quit it was amazing it was summer, plenty of fruits road my bike did calisthenics almost everyday. i definitely think stopping the weights was a bad idea but i've still got alot of my strength and i'm the same weight. i'm very confident i'll get my gainz back easily.
(I left my old job, I was banned from my old job/gym for not signing a non compete clause)


anyways so this has been my experience so far with these dietary changes. i would like to get some blood work done in the very near future once i have some insurance.

I will also say this, I haven't been sick since i went plant based. not one time, nothing not even a cold.*knocks on wood*


for those whole are animal lovers, for those who care about their health and longevity, for those who give a shit about the environment. eating a plant based diet is the right thing to not only ethically but also from a health and fitness mindset.

This post was edited by BarnabyJones on Mar 28 2016 01:13am

*tinfoil hat*

no

Nahh

Do you shit water a lot?

Hope you're takin dat b12 supplement.

I love Steak
I love Chicken

Voted no

Maybe, but amount od food i would have to consume bothers me. I like meat, but might do it for the sake of checking out how I would feel.

I could never cut meat out of my diet.. yesterday I had a big juice rare steak and it was the best thing ever.. no

4-6 a times a day. fibrous effortless poops.



i don't use sups.



i kinda just eat till i'm content to be honest, which depending on what i've been doing over the the day, days, or week can vary.

another thing many of you are like i like meat, well i know nothing is the same as meat but to be honest i go to many vegan restaurants around here. i've had cheeses made out of nuts (amazing) i've had vegan butter (tastes EXACTLY the same as regular butter, same texture everything) i've had mock meat many times: boneless ribs, chicken drum sticks, fish, curry beef, pepper steak, vegan burgers. i eat that stuff maybe once every other week but its pretty on point as well even better then regular meat. i've brought my meat eating friends to these places and they agree if it was more available they would probably go for it more often.

i don't think people think before they really eat. where the food came from, what went into getting it to your plate, the damaging effects of its of production on the environment. the food you guys eat every day 3-5 times a day came from something that was slaughtered. think about the energy that went to that slaughter.

one day i was staring at the 6-8 chicken tenderloins on my plate and i asked myself the question a "could i kill an animal almost or every day just so i could eat meat with every meal (keep in mind 2 tenderloins comes from just 1 chicken). the answer is YES if i was starving and had no other choice. its wrong to kill unless someones life is in danger. in the animal world its kill or be killed. but we live in modern society and we have alternatives that are easy enough to embrace and are worth trying. i don't think i could or would want to ever snap a chickens neck, or slit a cow, lamb,goat, pig, dog, cat, bear,dear you name it's throat. i really would rather live a life a peace than endorse murder. its really fucked up what they do to the animals who are sentient beings and don't want to die. animals are basically slaves. animals are very smart and have personalities i've seen it many times first hand. are they as smart as us? no, am i saying give up meat entirely maybe not, but probably on ethical stand point.

the environmental damage is undeniable, the rain forests being chopped down, just to grow food for the animals on these farms is just unacceptable. all that food could feed the world 2x over (no more world hunger) instead animals are basically force fed so they can be slaughtered. the toxic run off from the animal farms going into the oceans polluting the water. there wont even be fish in the ocean 80 years from now because of the combination of all this plus over fishing. of and did i mention the population keeps growing exponentially every year thus increasing the demand for bullshit products and meat. now of course animal agriculture is not all to blame but its just adding heavily to he problem.

its really not hard to go plant based. i think in life its important to be open minded. i just really wanted to put my experience out here even though i know many of you will be closed off to it. this place this forum was a great place for many of us back in the day.

This post was edited by BarnabyJones on Mar 28 2016 10:22am