Forums: March 2010 Kickstart Forum Archive: Stopping at the grocery store a lot more!!!!
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BlondRenee Joined: 02/28/10 Location: California Posts: 97	Stopping at the grocery store a lot more!!!! Posted Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 8:26 PM I usually go to the grocery store or health food store once a week. With this plan I am stopping more and more. I want fresh veggies and I am finding it fun to shop for new items. I have been a vegetarian for decades so the veggie thing is not new to me. The no dairy, is sort of a biggie for me. I am liking Almond milk ( have always used soy) About a year ago I discovered Earth Balance and love it. I won't buy anything else. I talked about my new vegan lifestyle today at lunch with my girl friends. They all were eating animal products and there I sat eating a huge salad. Later told them about the vegan plan and some of the benefits of it. They all looked crossed eyed at me, but I felt good telling them I lost 2 pounds, that it was a start to losing my goal of 15 pounds. Most of them are over weight and need to stop eating animals!!!! All I can do it be an example. Thanks for letting me share.
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kcwriter Joined: 03/13/10 Posts: 62	RE: Stopping at the grocery store a lot more!!!! Posted Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 12:06 AM I am with you on the more shopping. I am on day 5 and am just learning all this stuff. Not only am I no meat, dairy, I am also no wheat or gluten products. I think I have an allergy to wheat. Anyways, I hope I'm doing well. I went to Trader Joes and they have eggless egg salad. It's tofu seasoned. Ohmigosh! I love it. I found some rice crackers and eat it with that or a slice of toasted rice bread. This program is so easy for me, I truly believe it is a gift from God. be blessed, kc
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Vegann Joined: 03/02/10 Posts: 35	RE: Stopping at the grocery store a lot more!!!! Posted Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 9:41 AM Not only do I HAVE to go shopping a lot more. But I LOVE IT! I am like you. I love trying new things. i try to get one new thing to try each time i go. Whether its a fruit, a vegetable, a new grain i haven't tried.. or like my last shopping trip, I bought tempeh. Its fun to try new things. And I am loving it. Its great that you can be a source of information for your friends. Just you being around may help them be more conscious of what they are eating. Whether if its spoken, or not. Good for you! keep up the good work!
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LaniMuelrath Joined: 12/30/09 Location: California Posts: 557	RE: Stopping at the grocery store a lot more!!!! Posted Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 9:49 AM BlondRenee wrote: I usually go to the grocery store or health food store once a week. With this plan I am stopping more and more. I want fresh veggies and I am finding it fun to shop for new items. I have been a vegetarian for decades so the veggie thing is not new to me. The no dairy, is sort of a biggie for me. I am liking Almond milk ( have always used soy) About a year ago I discovered Earth Balance and love it. I won't buy anything else. I talked about my new vegan lifestyle today at lunch with my girl friends. They all were eating animal products and there I sat eating a huge salad. Later told them about the vegan plan and some of the benefits of it. They all looked crossed eyed at me, but I felt good telling them I lost 2 pounds, that it was a start to losing my goal of 15 pounds. Most of them are over weight and need to stop eating animals!!!! All I can do it be an example. Thanks for letting me share. Nice work! Keep in mind that you are planting seeds...and your results are what will make people sit up and take notice more than anything else you do or say. This has been the case for me in my fitness work. I could talk about health and body shaping by utilizing the tools of a plant-strong, starch-based diet until I am blue in the face, if I were not achieving the body ideal I aspire to. But when people come up to me and say "wow, how do you eat to stay so healthy and trim?" I have an interested audience! Stay the course and enjoy the fruits of your commitment! Lani Lani Muelrath, M.A. CGFI, CPBN the Plant-Based Fitness Expert McDougall Health & Medical Center 5 Minute Fitness & Plant-based Blueprint www
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uniquebuys Joined: 01/07/10 Posts: 69	RE: Stopping at the grocery store a lot more!!!! Posted Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 8:25 PM I, too, am spending lots of time in the fruit and vegetable departments in Kroger. I am there so often, I now know the produce guy. He commented the other day that he had not seem anyone hang around the fruit and vegetable area for so long at one time. Also, I do agree with Lani that you are planting seeds in hope that at some future date, they will sprout. That is all you can do, and in time, when they see you looking wonderful, they will ask! I have dropped only a small amount of weight, 18 pounds, but I am getting lots of attention with that small of a reduction.
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mollyhorn Joined: 03/03/10 Location: Fort Worth, TX Posts: 582	RE: Stopping at the grocery store a lot more!!!! Posted Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 11:54 AM uniquebuys wrote: I have dropped only a small amount of weight, 18 pounds, but I am getting lots of attention with that small of a reduction. That's not a small amount - that's huge!!! Go pick up two nine-pound dumbells, and tell me that's not a lot of weight. You deserve a huge pat on the back and congratulations. Be proud of yourself for your hard work and commitment. Molly Horn
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2meowers Joined: 02/26/10 Location: Sequim, WA Posts: 127	RE: Stopping at the grocery store a lot more!!!! Posted Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 1:43 PM uniquebuys wrote: I have dropped only a small amount of weight, 18 pounds, but I am getting lots of attention with that small of a reduction. Congratulations! And I agree, 18 lbs. is no small feat! I've lost 40 since I went vegan last Aug. (reached a plateau in Dec. after 30) and that translates into two 20 lb. bags of kitty litter for me! When I carry two bags from the car into the garage, I can really feel the load on my knees and can't believe I carried that weight for so long! Only 30 more to lose! Again, congratulations on the new you!! "But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy." Plutarch. email
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uniquebuys Joined: 01/07/10 Posts: 69	RE: Stopping at the grocery store a lot more!!!! Posted Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 2:55 PM 2meowers, I am so impressed you dropped 40 lbs. I need to really start some exercise program to help me break my plateau and then I, too, can drop my other 20 lbs. I know just what you mean about lifting that weight and wondering how we carried it. The other day, as I carried up, 20 pounds of something up my hill, I thought about how I use to carry that weight, too. On dress sizes, I have gone down 3 sizes from a 22W to now 16W so I know that is genuine. I am so serious about my new way of life and my husband has also gone down 1 size. He is not a vegetarian, but living with one....chuckling.. Well, thanks for the encouragement and I will hope to see you in the next message board. I was reading that they plan to close this one down after March 28th... : ( EJ
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2meowers Joined: 02/26/10 Location: Sequim, WA Posts: 127	RE: Stopping at the grocery store a lot more!!!! Posted Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 3:38 PM uniquebuys wrote: 2meowers, I am so impressed you dropped 40 lbs. I need to really start some exercise program to help me break my plateau and then I, too, can drop my other 20 lbs. I know just what you mean about lifting that weight and wondering how we carried it. The other day, as I carried up, 20 pounds of something up my hill, I thought about how I use to carry that weight, too. On dress sizes, I have gone down 3 sizes from a 22W to now 16W so I know that is genuine. I am so serious about my new way of life and my husband has also gone down 1 size. He is not a vegetarian, but living with one....chuckling.. Well, thanks for the encouragement and I will hope to see you in the next message board. I was reading that they plan to close this one down after March 28th... : ( EJ That's my downfall - exercise. Bought Richard Simmons "Sweatin' To The Oldies 5-CD set, started out with a bang and then my work schedule changed. I get home later and don't want to be eating dinner at 7-8 p.m. Got to rearrange my life 'cuz if this couch potato lost 40 without exercise, just think what some will do! "But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy." Plutarch. email
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WAYOFLIFEHAWAII Joined: 02/25/10 Posts: 14	RE: Stopping at the grocery store a lot more!!!! Posted Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 7:47 PM Hey Lani, Thanks for sharing about, "being blue in the face". Lani,I'm Certified Personal Trainer with the National Academy of Sports Medicne, I'm a Corrective Exercise, and Performance Enhancement Specialist, and I have huge passion for "Nutrition". Lani,a year ago an established Bodybuilder Trainer hired me part time because some of his clients wanted a more functional approach. Well, It wasn't long (3 months) before some of his clients started asking me about my eating habits. Then one day the Bodybuilder approached me and ask me if I would leave the nutrition up to him, I said sure.(after all,that wasn't the reason I was hired) Then,one month later I told the Bodybuilder because of my passion for the way I eat it was time for me to move on. Today, I train 9 of those clients, and I have educated them on a plant based diet. 3 have lost over 20 pounds and they are keeping it off. the other 6 have lost between 5 & 12 pounds. they all have more energy and overall feel better. Thank You, Lani and friends for all your support for the last 21 days. P.S. One of my clients young son was full of energy and couldn't focus. Her Doctor said he thought he was ADHD...! She changed his diet to a more plant-based. Today that young boy is still full of energy, just in a more relaxed way. Aloha & Mahalo, Jerry & Junko
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