My Life Update: Weight Loss Goals Achieved, New Job, New Website, New Lease on Life
Hi Guys,
So guess what, everything is going great in my life.
For 1. It’s Spring, and summery weather is here at last and all the good fruit is coming back in season. Fruit in the winter is just pale imitations of fruit in the summer, but you forget that in the winter.
For 2. I have totally relaxed about my diet. I no longer even think about it (whereas for the first 2 years I stressed about eating fruit during the day even if I wasn’t craving it). The videos of High Carb Hannah really helped me recently and now I just aim for vegan whole foods. By now I am so used to having fruit be the staple thought that I just naturally reach for that. I feel fruit makes me feel and look the best but I don’t stress about it if I feel like eating cooked food anymore. I feel I have achieved my weight loss goals and now I can just forget about my diet (of course I’ll always be vegan and always high carb vegan) and just celebrate for the rest of my life.
For 3. I have a new job pole dancing. I would never have been able to get this job if I hadn’t found the secret key to weight loss and youthful looks–a vegan diet based in fresh fruits and vegetables and no calorie restriction.
For 4. I started this new thing called rejection therapy which is where you repeatedly expose yourself to rejection in the form of asking people embarrassing things every day that they will probably reject you for, such as taking a selfie with a stranger, auditioning for a local play, singing the star spangled banner in public, asking to deliver a vegan pizza for a vegan pizza place, etc. This little program developed by Jia Jiang (check out his youtube channel on his 100 days of rejection experiment) helped me so much that I feel like a new person. I feel so much less fear in my life. It inspired me so much that my whole life is better for it.
5. I am very inspired to start my youtube channel and show people how I lost weight on a vegan diet and show people how much veganism has changed my life for the better. Here’s a quick list of the things its done for me
-helped me lose 20-25 pounds never once “dieting” or restricting my calories in any way
-helped me look younger and feel more beautiful
-allowed me to tell people daily about veganism and show people that they have been brainwashed about how animals don’t deserve to live as much as we do
-allowed me to boycott murder and torture–thank god.
-allowed me to never feel guilty about food again
–cured my cramps
–taught me the principles of health
–educated me and inspired me through learning about incredible inspiring animal rights peoples
–allowed me to start a blog and connect with other vegans
–gave me a new appreciation for nature and fruit
-made me look at animals as fascinating intelligent misunderstood beings that we share the earth with instead of cute brainless machines.
I could go on!
I even have a new site redesign.
Life is beautiful.
How are you doing. Please let me know by contacting me in my new “contact me” section or commenting below if you have any questions or if I can help you achieve your weight loss or vegan goals in any way. I believe I have answered or tried to answer almost every single comment ever posted on the blog so I will definitely answer you. I am available to help.
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Hi girl! Congratulations on your achivement!!! I wrote to you on Instagram and think I received a reply from you but had no opportunity to check it out))) So happy for you, for your new job and that I found your blog!!!))) Rejection challenge seems to be a lot of fun)))) Please write more about your dancing and life in general. So you decided to try a starch based diet now? Or I misunderstood you?)) I thought that raw food gave you the most energy splash. Then why cooked meal? I am interested as I eat mostly raw and sometimes incorporate cooked food for dinner but a little bit confused if I really want to be fully raw. I started HCLF in January and gained some weight and it frustrates me though my husband thinks I look great but that’s not my ideal body. I used to be leaner and now I have fat layers though I keep on excersisin really intensively on a daily basis((( I think I should keep high carb raw and give my body some time to reconstruct and speed up my matabolism as previously I used to eat high protein low carb meals. Please cheer me up as I need some motivation and inspiration!!!))) xo xo xo))
Hi Maria! Yes I remember you from instagram! I replied to you and tagged you in my banana island posts…hope you see it soon.
Right now I’m still eating a lot of fruit…I’d still say I’m fruit based but I have just relaxed about eating starches and have been eating I think a bit more than I used to. I am hoping to increase my raw this summer as it is just getting warm here in nyc…after a totally frigid winter and all the good fruit is just coming back in season. The question of whether or not to be fully raw is hard…it’s so great in so many ways but sometimes it is better to transition slowly and little by little improve your diet by cutting out processed foods and all that before going ALL IN. You should join the group on facebook “vegan fruitarians”. It is amazing inspiration for going 100% raw and there are people in that group doing it and giving great advice so you can tell them what you are eating… I think what they would recommend for weightloss is doing green smoothies and not eating any overt fats like avocados, nuts, seeds or coconut meat for a while. On the other side of the spectrum, some people tend to have more luck losing weight on a starch based diet…check out the videos of high carb hannah on youtube and potato strong on youtube…they have both had amazing weight loss success on starch. I used to think all raw was the only way to lose weight but I’m not sure about that now….I still think it makes me feel the most vibrant, beautiful and energetic though. But starch makes me feel satisfied and comforted…so it’s sometimes a tough call which I prefer. ON 100% raw the weight will come off very quickly but if you can’t maintain it…it will gradually come back on…so it’s better to find something you can maintain for life. I know you got this–keep experimenting and tweaking your diet in little ways to improve it and your health and beauty will keep improving!! Over the long run for sure… thank you so much for the encouragement to write about my life on my blog as well. Let me know if I can help in any other way :))
Thank you dear!))) I also was watching some youtube videos and found Sunnyknows she is a vegan BB and looks amazing. She I think is the only one who said the real reason of initial weight gain on rawtill4 and how to prevent that – to increase calorie intake gradually week by week. She is so funny by the way)) And I also like Tami Torossian channel)) she is so positive))) and has a great body too. I couldn’t find a guy who survived 60 days on banana island.. I also am not good in using instagram and will try today to find your post on it)))