Vegan Experience

About

(THE NEW NEWS)
This is no longer an "experiment" and has become an "experience" so I'm changing the name.
Also I'm now on a quest to loose weight while being a vegan on Weight Watchers.





STATS:
Height - 5'9"
HW:204 (1-1-2011)
SW: 199.8 (3-10-11) Day started WW
CW: 171
UGW:140 ish -I'll know when I get there

WEEK 43

22 inches lost
Old dress size 20/ New Dress size 10

5% Lost Goal - (met 4-14-11)
10% Lost Goal - (met 5-19-11)
G#1: 186 New Sandals (met 4-21-11)
G#2: 174 - Clean out old clothes (met 6-9-11)
G#3: 160 - Get my Momma/Baby panda Tattoo
G#4: 150 - (I'm not setting a reward for this.. it doesn't need one..150 is reward enough)
End Goal: BE HEALTHY and stay that way! (not sure what weight that is.. I'll know it when it happens)

Weigh Day = Thursday

(THE OLD NEWS)
It started as a four week trip into the world of a vegan diet as an experiment for hubby's job...
... the trip is now ongoing and we are learning as we go.
Along for the ride is our non vegan offspring who thinks chicken is a major food group.
This blog is about what we ate..what we found.. and what we have learned as we go...as well as a little kid torture (that's what parents are for right?)


Our 28 day experience is almost over….

So the original plan was to try Vegan eating for 28 days because Chris is developing a line of foods to go with the Engine 2 diet book… (Chris works at Whole Foods for anyone who does not know) and he figured it would be helpful to follow the diet for the 28 days like the book says so he had a better understanding of what he was developing. He sold me on the health benefits so I was in - fully expecting we would stop this at 27 days because Thanksgiving is day 28. Anyone who knows Chris would question his giving up meat and cheese for any length of time. The diet is pretty much eating Vegan but also cutting out oils , switching to whole grains and staying away from processed foods… oh and you can have chocolate but 70% cocoa or more. (That’s important!!) Well we went to a party last weekend and they had Vegetarian lasagna and we both resisted.. in fact we were not even interested. We ate at home before the party and were good all night just had some wine. Spent the night chatting with people who fell into the.. I’m vegetarian and could never go vegan I love dairy too much group.. the has Chris lost his mind? group… the interested in what we eat group… and the wow I’m impressed but could never do that group. On the way home I asked him… so.. after 28 days what are we going to do?? And his reply…. “I see no reason to stop this..the food is good… we’ve both lost weight and feel better.” So.. instead of this being a 4 week experiment this is now officially an ongoing experiment!!!! WOOHOO I felt the same way and was hoping he’d say that!!!

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  3. feminanimal reblogged this from veganexperience and added:
    That’s awesome! I’ve been loving your posts. Thank you.
  4. veganation reblogged this from veganexperience and added:
    see other people trying similar things...may change my mind later
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