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I ran 7 miles and broke my foot. Alright... I'm lying. I was good. I didn't run on the injured foot THIS week. 5 days from now... all bets are off. I did however plant a tree (my mom wanted one for Mother's Day). Which makes me even more of a hippie than normal. I lost a little bit of weight, and I'm not really sure how. I guess I should just be thankful. My diet this week consisted of restaurant food and ice cream sammiches (yes, that IS the correct spelling). They were diet ice cream sammiches, but still... My grandma wanted to go to a new hole-in-the-wall country cafe near where she lives in the boonies, so my mom, aunt, and I went to lunch with her. That was the first time in two years of being a crazy vegetarian that I ate at a place that didn't have a vegetarian entree. I ended up with fries and lemon icebox pie for lunch. That's nutritious, right? I mean, lemons have vitamins, so lemon pie is probably good for you. They put berries on top of it too, so it was probably super healthy. randomness1) randomness2) Maybe we should have eaten at this place... (youtube link)
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195.4 lb
Lost so far: 69.6 lb.
Still to go: 10.4 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
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losing 1.4 lb a week
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Hahahaha. Skinny Cow brand? I love those things... Especially since you can get a package that has chocolate AND vanilla ice cream in it.... Mmmmm.
12 May 09 by member: Starladesiree
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What's that I keep reading in someone's signature?... Oh yeah. Work is the curse of the drinking classes. Haha. As far as the ice cream sammiches goes, I made the mistake of going grocery shopping when I was hungry. I don't know why, but the frozen vegetarian food is right in the middle of the ice cream section. ARGH! I saw that Skinny Cow had "diet" PB&Chocolate ice cream sammiches and... well... *nomnomnom*
12 May 09 by member: Divided By Zero
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i always wanted to know what switched ya to the 'other side' or others reasons too. i am interested in watching those films, although i am convinced i will never stop eating meat. lol then again i don't want to be pulled to your side. lol no offense.
12 May 09 by member: cindyshine
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None taken. LOL I think "Earthlings" is very well put together, but still has a lot of shocking moments. It doesn't just deal with the food aspect of animals though. It goes into pets, clothing, circuses, etc. I've known several people that have seen the movie. Some people become vegetarians because of it (temporarily or permanently), but it doesn't really have that effect on everyone. But like I warned before, it is eye opening and it can ruin your appetite. I remember one of my coworkers watched it while eating dinner... and couldn't finish because of it. I felt kind of bad for mentioning it to her because she couldn't eat meat for months, but didn't know how to eat vegetarian either. Like I mentioned before, if anyone ever has any questions just go ahead an ask. Even if I can't give you a good answer I can probably point you in the right direction.
12 May 09 by member: Divided By Zero
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lol. thanks. I really appreciate your help on this site, you seem to know your STUFF, :D
12 May 09 by member: cindyshine
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Not quite related: I saw "How It's Made" on hot dogs. We all know the hot dog is kinda made of random animal parts, but that isn't what made me stop eating them. It was the look of that paste they made the meat into. OMG. <<<<< Uhhh, anyways.. I wanted to thank you for saying sammiches. I actually yelled at a co-worker yesterday (TWICE) when they said sandwich. I would scream "SAMMICH!" She got it the second time. I also have to correct her when she said scrambled eggs. It's SO OBVIOUSLY: scramby eggs. Duh, people.. duh.
12 May 09 by member: CryCry
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I'd be interested in the Ice Cream Sammich Diet book! It would have to have gluten free options, though. ;) Since we're on the subject of documentaries, I watched "King Corn" recently. My favorite line from the film is when the farmers are asked if they would eat what they grew and they said "No, we're growing CRAP!" LOL. I definitely did stop eating grain-fed cattle after seeing that movie. Vegetarian or not, it is important to research where your food is coming from. Sustainable growing practices also produce more nutritious food as well as protect the environment and the well-being of animals.
12 May 09 by member: sararay
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I've been thinking about getting a pet cat, and was looking on Craigslist postings for one to adopt and someone had posted a link as to why they were asking for a rehoming fee. I actually read it, and it was awful. I didn't even think people would actually take "free to good home" pets and do horrible things like torture/murder them for their own sick pleasure, give them to labs for research, train them for fighting, etc... I figured some people would take them to feed snakes... which is still awful. That stuff makes me sick. Some people are so messed up. Now I kinda don't wanna know how meat ends up from the animal to the supermarket.. I'd probably cry.
I would have to drown my sorrow in a PB and chocolate Skinny Cow sammich.
12 May 09 by member: Starladesiree
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12 May 09 by member: cindyshine
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Side note: Just as dangerous... They also have Strawberry Shortcake sammiches. :P
12 May 09 by member: Divided By Zero
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Sammich is definitely and always the correct spelling. Sararay, I really want to see that movie. Great line. I think I've seen parts of it on Frontline but have never seen the whole thing. Next up we need a movie on the soy industry--especially how it relates to the "health food" industry.
12 May 09 by member: beets_yum
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A highlight: Soybean lecithin comes from sludge left after crude soy oil goes through a "degumming" process. It is a waste product containing solvents and pesticides and has a consistency ranging from a gummy fluid to a plastic solid. Before being bleached to a more appealing light yellow, the color of lecithin ranges from a dirty tan to reddish brown. The hexane extraction process commonly used in soybean oil manufacture today yields less lecithin than the older ethanol-benzol process, but produces a more marketable lecithin with better color, reduced odor and less bitter flavor.7
Historian William Shurtleff reports that the expansion of the soybean crushing and soy oil refining industries in Europe after 1908 led to a problem disposing the increasing amounts of fermenting, foul-smelling sludge. German companies then decided to vacuum dry the sludge, patent the process and sell it as "soybean lecithin." Scientists hired to find some use for the substance cooked up more than a thousand new uses by 1939.
12 May 09 by member: beets_yum
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