Weight loss Jars

 

So here is my weight loss jars. I made one for the ounces I need to lose (below)  and the other for the ounces I have loss (above).

Each penny = 1 oz.

My sister came up with this fantastic idea, I hope by the visual of them on my kitchen counter will reset my habits I've formed in the kitchen.

So far I have 32 pennies in my weight loss jar, only 704 to go till my goal weight

Have a blessed day and remember “you’re the treat”

~SHAWN~

Open your eyes!!

This week was a dozy! It was full of eye opening events that has made me change my view permanently. One thing that really gave me clarity about my veganism is, reading everything and anything I can get my hands on. The most resent book Ive read, The Kind Diet,  was very interesting, though Ive heard a lot of the information the book has before it was written in a fun way. I enjoyed it and recommend it to others. It also has great recipes for all stages of going vegan.
So with all that said, I want to get back to the issue that has my mind going hundreds of miles a minute, the problem I have is why in the world don't people want to open their eyes?! You would think obesity,cancer,diabetes,heart disease, and all these ailments that could all be prevented or helped through food.?? I just don't understand this? But then again I had my eyes closed once too. I cant fault people who cant seem to get the blinders off. We get conditioned and addicted to all these chemical laden foods and wonder why we feel so bad. Then when a person comes and lets you know this information and the addict comes out in us. Ive seen this time and time again, sad!

The planet and our bodies our suffering all in the name of flesh, does this make any sense?  The world is in our hands, what are we going to do with it??

 So I'm going to try another approach, I will practice what I preach and Ill be the example that they will want to follow!
This week I'm 2.4lbs down. I'm doing this mind you all without dieting or any pangs of food restriction. My secret I only eat vegan foods that will be of benefit to my health. They are SO yummy!!!
So off to a new week and a new book, Ill let you know how it goes.

~SHAWN~

Weigh-in day

                    I added my ticker and I'm ready to rock and roll! I got up today wondering what I was going to do about this battle of the bulge. I know that is on so many of our minds everyday. I hate the word diet though, I wish to never say that on this blog. Living a healthy life doesn't have to be all about restriction and starving yourself. I never have proclaimed I wanted to be stick thin, I just want to be healthy. With this said on to my journey. 
I just found out from my Dr. I have a severe deficiency of Vitamin D.  This causes a whole host of problems I found out. Now I'm on a weekly dose of 50,000 units of vitamin D. I have to do this for 3 months and reevaluate blood work. I'm so happy with this discovery, it has been a bad year of feeling really sick and down. I'm hoping that within the next few weeks my body responds to this and I'm feeling like my old self.
I'm going to do all I can to inform myself on nutrition. With a vegan diet this is so crucial. I just didn't realize the importance of some of the vitamins found in foods. I always thought it was funny when people would say food is fuel for the machine called your body, I thought it was a bunch of health-nut-propaganda but I'm the fool here. They was right all this time. Here I thought I was doing my body a service by adhering to a strict vegan diet and all along I was going about it the wrong way.
I really want people to be informed of the potential risk of doing a vegan diet without knowledge. Yes we get all gun-ho about our animal rights but dont forget without a healthy us they dont have a chance. So the challenge for this vegan this week is to find out all I can about proper vegan nutrition. I will log what i find and my opinions on them.

~Shawn~

Fresh start

Here I go again, starting to blog my journey to weight loss. This time I will be faithful. I will meet my goals. I will make me a priority. I will pick my self up and dust myself off every time I fall.

This is my promise to myself.

Wednesday July 20 2011 I will post my weight loss ticker and a picture of self. I will blog no less than 4 times a week. I will post updates and pics weekly on Wednesdays.  

My goal date is 9/20/2011

On this goal date I want to weigh 20lbs less. I know this is a lot for that amount of time but I'm going to aim high.

If I make my goal on 9/20/11 I will treat myself to a shopping trip.

I will accomplish these goals by:

1. eat better
2.surround my self with supportive people
3. exercise
4. read all i can
5. ask for help when i need it
6. learn new recipes for fatty favs
7.make a goal
8. ask myself if I'm hungry walk away
9. use same plate
10. reward for every five lbs lost

 Obstacles that might come up, and the ways you will fight them:
1. People food pushing:
 let them know how passionate you are to be there for them a long time
2.Going out to eat:
3.Sweet tooth:
 make sure to have healthy options on hand at all times
4. Holidays:
make new healthy recipe and make it a annual holiday treat
 5. Stress:
just remember that this to shall pass and if you dont put you first how are you going to be ok enough to be there for family and friends

I will remember I'm doing this for me and I need to be around for my family a long time

                                                     Til tomorrow
                                  ~Live healthy and compassionate~

Please start this journey with me.

The first post! Here we go!
I want to start by saying thank you to my friends over on F.B. http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/groups/brianm
I wanted to start a blog about vegan weightloss, so with the help and guidence of some good friends Im going to do my best to accomplish what I set out to do, living a more healthy and compassionate life.

Weight loss, in my eyes, is a long journey of self exploration. In the end you make the choice of what goes in your body and it is up to you to figure out why. No one can do this for you, it is a journey all your own.  Many people out there,( I to am one), are in a constant search for why they are over weight.

 I'm learning that without being compassionate to myself and remembering me I can not be the person I'm intended to be. The weight will never fall off if I don't put me on the front burner and tend to me. So off on my weight loss journey I go.

~VEGAN~

This is a choice that I'm proud to have made. I no longer have the heartache associated with my food. So I hope  this blog will encourage others to not only be compassionate towards themselves but animals as well.

Now lets start this journey together...