Guest guest Posted May 21, 2008 Report Share Posted May 21, 2008 My name is Viveca. I am a young 56 year old. I live in Palm Beach Gardens, FL. I have been married for 31 years to my present husband (2nd marriage). I have 2 grown children--a girl & a boy. I have 3 granddaughters by way of my daughter. My son isn't married at this time. I have been a vegetarian for 27 years and a vegan for 4 years. The first year that I became a vegan, I was also 100% raw. After 1 year, I decided to start eating some cooked foods again. One thing led to another and before I knew it, I was addicted to many of the foods that I hadn't been eating. I came to my senses Saturday night and have gotten back to the program, so to speak. I need to lose about 20+ pounds. Sunday I drank only smoothies (vegan protein powder added), Monday I had those and some oranges, yesterday was smoothies and fruit and today I will add vegetables to my diet. To me, getting started is more than half the battle. I thought it would be a great time to join this list to share with other vegetarians that are interested in losing weight. It will help motivate me. I try to stay active, but some weeks aren't as good as others. I do at least get in 3 days of water exercise, but on a perfect week, I would get in about 5 days of water exercise, 3 days at the gym and 1 bike ride. My husband is a vegetarian, but will not go out out of his way to eat eggs or dairy. Once in a while, it may be an ingredient in something he eats away from home. I would say that he is 98% vegan. I do all the cooking at our household, but he fixes a lot of his own food since he tends to be addicted to eating peanut butter and apples & peanut butter and ricecakes, etc. He can fend for himself, but I would like to start making more vegan meals. I look forward to meeting the other mebers here! Viveca Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 23, 2008 Report Share Posted May 23, 2008 Welcome to our group Viveca! Glad you are back on your program! I just recently started doing Weight Watchers again since I had gained some weight back and am happy with the results so far! I'm sure you'll have lots of low-fat recipes to share with us with all of your experience! Again, welcome and don't forget to poke around our files as we have a lot of good info & recipes. Cindi, co-owner of group with Pat --- On Wed, 5/21/08, Viveca Park <viveca wrote: Viveca Park <viveca I'm New Here--introduction vegetarianslimming Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 9:09 AM My name is Viveca. I am a young 56 year old. I live in Palm Beach Gardens, FL. I have been married for 31 years to my present husband (2nd marriage). I have 2 grown children--a girl & a boy. I have 3 granddaughters by way of my daughter. My son isn't married at this time. I have been a vegetarian for 27 years and a vegan for 4 years. The first year that I became a vegan, I was also 100% raw. After 1 year, I decided to start eating some cooked foods again. One thing led to another and before I knew it, I was addicted to many of the foods that I hadn't been eating. I came to my senses Saturday night and have gotten back to the program, so to speak. I need to lose about 20+ pounds. Sunday I drank only smoothies (vegan protein powder added), Monday I had those and some oranges, yesterday was smoothies and fruit and today I will add vegetables to my diet. To me, getting started is more than half the battle. I thought it would be a great time to join this list to share with other vegetarians that are interested in losing weight. It will help motivate me. I try to stay active, but some weeks aren't as good as others. I do at least get in 3 days of water exercise, but on a perfect week, I would get in about 5 days of water exercise, 3 days at the gym and 1 bike ride. My husband is a vegetarian, but will not go out out of his way to eat eggs or dairy. Once in a while, it may be an ingredient in something he eats away from home. I would say that he is 98% vegan. I do all the cooking at our household, but he fixes a lot of his own food since he tends to be addicted to eating peanut butter and apples & peanut butter and ricecakes, etc. He can fend for himself, but I would like to start making more vegan meals. I look forward to meeting the other mebers here! Viveca Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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