can i join in here? i'm very new to this whole not eating animal products thing. no one else in my family or friends does it, so i could use all the support i can get! this seems to be a very active and friendly group. so is that alright? for the challenge my weights are:
starting weight (as of this morning): 148.2
short term goal (thanksgiving): 143
goal: 140

Summerkate! Looks like we're in a similar place, height/weight-wise. It gets tough as you get closer, doesn't it? I'm new to being vegetarian too (since early September).

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We'd be glad to have you summerkate! I've only been a vegetarian for about a month, and no one else in my family is a vegetarian either.

So I have a mini-confession but also a personal success. When i first decided to go vegetarian i decided to try not eating dairy or eggs either, but i said to myself "i can always add those back in if i want to." So i kept the cheese and icecream I already had in my fridge. Now after having gone a month with no dairy or cheese and with a little motivation of some non-dairy cheese (I finally found some in this tiny health food store) I emptied my fridge of the cheese and icecream! Now my fridge is completely animal product free. Hooray!

Well that's my little success of the day.

summerkate- WELCOME to the group!

tigger175- thats great! when i first went vegetarian almost 9 years ago i couldn't have imagined going vegan at the same time! congrats!

Morning Ladies- tigger good for you!!! I am sure I could probably be vegan, but for now I am sticking to my lacto ovo ways... I have thought about it over and over and its kind of like when I thought about becoming vegetarian over and over and over and years later I just finally did it... we'll see I suppose- but KUDOS to you for doing it!!!!

I have been bad on my diet this weekend, but back on track today... we'll see if it shows come Thursday!

Congrats Tigger!!!! I found that after I went dairy free I felt even better




Of course Kate!! Welcome!!!






Good luck!! At least you got back on track!!

Hi SummerKate I added you to the challenge! Glad to have you join!

Tigger.. that's awesome! I'm so proud of you

Haley hey girl!

RDW.. you'll do great :P

TheHeather.. did you see my mini recipe for brussel sprouts?

jillnicole03-HEY

i just got home from a biopsy on my thyroid and it was NOT FUN! my mom said it was freaky looking with the needles in my neck lol im so glad that's over with. hopefully i wont have to go back for any reason! but on the plus side one of the residents was pretty darn good looking haha

Hope all goes well!

JulieJ08- thanks so much! i hope so too lol

haley-- yeah that would look crazy

thanks for the welcome ladies!!

tigger175-that's awesome that you don't have any animal product foods in your house anymore!! i'm kindof not sure what to do with the rest of my meat and dairy stuff. i have three roomates so i'm hoping they'll just eat it eventually.

so tomorrow i'm grocery shopping and trying to come up with some fun but cheap recipes. i have a vinagrette dressing and i was thinking about getting some pasta, beans, and tomatoes and mixing it all together for some lunches. any other ideas??

kate.... fatfreevegan.com and vegweb.com has lots of great recipes... vegweb has a 'easy and quick' section that I love

I gave mine to my roomies (some of my sister's young adult kids live with me). They're strapped, and really appreciated it. I had just bought a big bag of frozen salmon fillets! I kinda figured I would just use it up, then go totally veg when it was gone, but once I started, I just didn't want to have meat anymore.

jillnicole03-thanks for the website. i just checked them out, and they do have some really tasty looking stuff

juliej08-i did the same thing. i figured i'd eat the rest of my coffee creamer and stuff like that at least until it was gone, but i don't really want to right now. not eating meat and dairy feels pretty good so far!! (i think it would be pretty hard to give up a whole bag of salmon though, that stuff is one of my favs!)