tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69101727562676285032024-02-19T01:15:45.581-05:00A Man Finally Eats his Veggies: A Meatless YearA meat lover decides to go a year without any beef, poultry, pork, fish/seafood or eggs just to see what it's like. This experiment began on 11/2/09 and on 1/1/10 expanded to excluding dairy products as well.Meatless Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02206133283187398092noreply@blogger.comBlogger181125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910172756267628503.post-29200096209427994962011-01-24T14:58:00.004-05:002011-01-24T15:28:47.838-05:00Jack LaLanne, September 26, 1914 – January 23, 2011<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When I was a lad, I caught my first glimpse of the 1966 Batman film. This was the one that spun out of the 60’s television show starring Adam West and Burt Ward. It was a real treat to see as I had been trying to view it for some time before then but could never find it in my local TV listings or at the video store.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This film had everything a little boy who loved the Caped Crusader could possibly wish for or expect in a film based on the character; Batman and Robin, four colorful villains, kickass superhero vehicles and batfights complete with their colorful trademark onomatopoeia.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It also had <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_LaLanne">Jack LaLanne</a>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After seeing him pop up in a rooftop cameo I asked my mother, “Who’s that?”. She answered calmly, “That’s Jack LaLanne. He’s a fitness guru.” “Oh”, I replied and went back to viewing my afternoon movie.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At the time I didn’t realize how important Mr. LaLanne was to our national culture. This was a man who spread the word of the benefits of healthy eating and fitness routines long before it was fashionable in this country. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It turns out he did feats in real life that my fictional childhood hero Batman never did such as:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>In 1956 at age 42 he set a world record of 1,033 push-ups in 23 minutes on national television.</i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>In 1976 at age 62, to commemorate the "Spirit of '76", United States Bicentennial, he swam one mile in Long Beach Harbor. He was handcuffed and shackled, and he towed 13 boats (representing the 13 original colonies) containing 76 people.</i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>In 1984 at age 70, while handcuffed, shackled and fighting strong winds and currents, he towed 70 rowboats, one with several passengers, from the Queen’s Way Bridge in the Long Beach Harbor to the Queen Mary, 1 mile away.</i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let’s see Christian Bale, Michael Keaton or Adam West do that.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Without him there might not have been later exercise gurus such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jake Steinfeld, Richard Simmons, Jane Fonda or others like them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Without him Bally’s Total Fitness might not have survived past the 1980’s. Why? Because he licensed his health clubs to Bally's back then.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This was a man who extolled the virtues of a vegetarian diet and knew that processed foods were no substitutes for natural, whole foods—and he exercised everyday right up until his final days. He passed away at 96. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;">I never personally knew him but I will miss him.</span><span style="color: white;"> </span><span style="color: white;">He is the best example I can think of when it comes to inspiring others to be the healthiest they can possibly be. </span><span style="color: white;">Fictional heroes can be entertaining but real life heroes like Jack LaLanne are true inspirations.</span> </span></div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Congress has passed a bill that <i>"will be the first major overhaul of the U.S. food safety system since the 1930s."</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is good news but the article also goes on to say, </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>"The new law would not extend to meat, poultry or processed eggs. Those foods are regulated by the Agriculture Department and are subjected to more rigorous inspections and oversight than foods regulated by the FDA."</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Really? While our peanut butter may soon be safer for consumption, we will still have to worry about e coli in meat products? I believe that even though the Agriculture Department claims to “<i>more rigorous inspections</i>” of meat, poultry and eggs they don’t seem to be doing the best job they possibly can. I see articles all the time on unsafe practices in the meat industry such as this <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-katz-md/unkillable-bacteria-where_b_730715.html"><b><u>one</u></b></a>. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To me, this new bill only works to solve only about half the food problems in this country since the U.S. is still a nation where the majority of people still like to eat meat and big portions of it. Even though I no longer consume beef, pork, poultry, eggs and fish/seafood, it would be nice if we could see improved safety standards put in place for those that do.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you knew some of the unsafe practices of the meat industry you would realize that Congress and President Obama still need to work on making <b><u>all</u></b> types of food safe for everyone in this country. The article also mentions that "The bill had broad bipartisan backing in Congress". If this is the case then this really should be a no brainer as it looks to be one of the few issues that both of our major political parties agree on, don’t you think?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The more things change, the more things stay the same.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hello all and Happy New Year! I hope you have been well and I apologize for not coming back sooner like I promised I would. It has been a very busy holiday season and I have been otherwise occupied preparing for important job interviews and a move to a new location. I also just plain realized that I needed more time off from this blog then I had initially thought. This was a useful thing as it allowed me a chance to step back and see what I had accomplished in 2010.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I will admit though, it was tempting to step away from this blog for good. Why? Well I simply wasn’t sure if I had anything more to say and the initial arc of the blog, my first year without meat, was completed. So what more can one post about the meatless world? Plenty, but this time I don’t think it should be on my experiences alone.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Since doing this blog I have heard from other vegetarians and people I have met online through this blog or personal acquaintances I have known already telling me that they now want to go veggie too. They have been asking me for advice on how to do it and I have been more than happy to share my experiences with them. Maybe, just maybe, I can get them to share their own stories on here. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">My challenge to others out there is to go veggie in 2011—if not for a least a year, then I challenge you to try it for at least 90 days and see how you feel. I think if you make the effort you will be most pleasantly surprised to see how it can change your health for the better.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">By the time you read these words my first full year as a vegetarian will have been officially completed. </div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It’s chilly outside and clouds completely line the sky like a continuous sheet of cotton as I scribble onto a cheap notepad that will comprise this entry. It very much reminds me of another day, November 2nd 2009, to be exact. Precisely one year ago on that very day I chose to go meatless for a year.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That day started with me waking up in a very comfortable and clean bedroom in upstate New York. After showering, shaving and dressing I bid the owner of said bedroom goodbye. I didn’t know at the time when we would see each other again but somehow I think we both knew deep inside that it would be never.</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She looked very beautiful that morning in a black dress, which was inadvertently appropriate on this occasion. We briefly kissed goodbye and she left for her teaching job. I packed my suitcase for the long trip back to Western Massachusetts and saw myself out.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">About five hours later, I was driving north on I-91 and decided to take Exit 20 to go into Hadley, MA. I had a shopping list of my basic food staple items that would help me wade into this new vegetarian lifestyle. Whole Foods, Wal-Mart, Target, Trader Joe’s and Stop & Shop were all in relatively close proximity to each other. This was a good opportunity to compare and save prices. I went home that day with three or four grocery bags filled with natural peanut butter, whole grain bread, salad greens, canned beans and fresh fruit.</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">Days passed, meat was successfully ignored. Pounds started to leave and long lost energy came back. A relationship ended with one woman and, soon after, another very special woman in my life passed away.</span> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Weeks passed, and I added exercise back into my life. Holidays where thanks and gifts were exchange passed without turkey passing my lips.</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Months passed and I was watching movies like King Corn and Food Inc. Going meatless was a big factor behind my healthier state but not the only one—I looked at everything I ate. More vegetables than ever before were consumed, less and less processed foods were eaten and whole grains and brown varieties replaced white breads and white rice. Of course, the exercise played its role as well.</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">365 days can change a lot.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have not been this thin since grade school. I feel energized, have increased flexibility and have not experienced any illness or irregularity in the past twelve months. The closest to illness I have experienced in this time is feeling sluggish the day after I have treated myself to too many sweets at the movies or wherever.</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the middle of writing drafts of this text I had my own private celebration to commemorate being veggie for a year. I had a simple meal of rice, beans, greens and cheese-filled tortillas with a cup of coffee at this nice local place called The People’s Pint. I alone decided to go meatless and eat better so I think it was only fitting to have the last full meal of my initial meatless year by myself. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was initially thinking about how to celebrate it in a bigger way. I thought my first ever skydive would be fun but it isn’t in my budget right now. There were many good suggestions and I went with the simplest suggestion of a veggie friendly dinner at a local restaurant. However, that actually isn’t my true reward.</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Improving ones health is the reward in itself. I cannot think of a finer prize, can you? This is not some fad diet but instead healthy eating habits one has to keep up for life. Nothing in this life that is truly valuable comes without hard work.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And speaking of making a change to a meatless diet, are there those out there who want to undertake their own meatless year? Please let me know. I can do my best to give you advice and if I don’t have the answer I can most certainly point you in the direction of someone who can. </div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Thank you once again to Audra, Chris, Joe, Melinda, Mike and both Rebeccas for relating their experience with their chosen ways of eating before I went veggie a year ago. </div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To my family for accepting this new eating choice of mine and the many friends who did the same.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To the wonderful faculty and staff of the Greenfield YMCA for showing me how to properly get back into an exercise routine and also for their great sense of community.</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To Mike Glazier, David Neil and Steve Mish for acting in films made especially for this blog.</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To David Centeno for providing the opposing point of view and keeping all of us meatless consumers on our toes.<br />
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To Ingrid dos Santos for designing the nice new masthead. </div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Thanks to Dr. Paul Carlan, Jade Arcade, Monte, the cast, director and crew of Ja’Duke’s Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Nayana Glazier and Anne Harding of the Montague Reporter.</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I also want to thank all of the veggies out there for supporting my efforts on Facebook and other places on the web. Lastly I want to thank you, the reader, for checking out this blog. A Man Finally Eats His Veggies <u><i><b>will </b></i></u>continue as an ongoing blog. See you in a week.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">of the first year of me being a vegetarian.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have almost made it. I am almost there and quite different than I was a year ago.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Just a matter of hours…<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Talk to you soon!</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="mailto:meatlessman@yahoo.com">meatlessman@yahoo.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Man-Finally-Eats-his-Veggies-A-Meatless-Year-Blog/228505550587?ref=nf">Facebook A Man Finally Eats his Veggies Fan Page</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a black;="" color:="" href="http://www.blogger.com/%3C/span%3E%3Cspan%20style="> </a><a href="http://twitter.com/ManEatsVeggies" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/ManEatsVeggies</a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: white;">Meatless Man on Twitter</span></span><o:p style="color: white;"></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 78%;">All writing, videos and pictures copyright the author of this blog unless otherwise noted or, if really darn obvious.</span></i></b> </div><o:p></o:p> Meatless Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02206133283187398092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910172756267628503.post-8437669232084008592010-10-31T19:55:00.002-04:002010-10-31T23:27:30.466-04:00A Look Back Upon My First Meatless Year: For those who came in late<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CJason%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><style>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><b><i>Days 363 and 364 </i></b><o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Look just above this text and you will see that I have reached day 364. As of this writing, I am one day short of having been meatless for an entire year.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the last couple of months this blog has gone from having hundreds of visitors a month to thousands. Many of you discovered this cozy corner of the blogosphere after the halfway point in my first meatless year. For your benefit, I have posted below links to most of the highlights of this year of personal change. Enjoy. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://ameatlessyear.blogspot.com/2009/11/welcome.html">The day I went meatless.</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://ameatlessyear.blogspot.com/2009/12/y-m-c.html">In December I started exercising again.</a><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://ameatlessyear.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-58-to-celebrate-8-weeks-of-being.html">A Facebook fan page is started for the blog.</a><o:p></o:p></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://ameatlessyear.blogspot.com/2010/01/my-new-year-2010-resolution-part-1.html">Tried going vegan.</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://ameatlessyear.blogspot.com/2010/02/day-111-just-to-be-clear-about.html">Stopped being vegan.</a></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://ameatlessyear.blogspot.com/2010/03/so-like-candy.html">I stopped taking multivitamins.</a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_475288039"><o:p></o:p></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://ameatlessyear.blogspot.com/2010/06/old-suit-new-suit.html">Got a new suit.</a><o:p></o:p></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_475288052" style="color: white;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://ameatlessyear.blogspot.com/2010/08/weight-update-big-one.html">Met my weight loss goal!</a></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_475288057" style="color: white;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://ameatlessyear.blogspot.com/2010/09/meatless-mans-new-clothes.html">Got new clothes.</a><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">One more day to go… thanks for reading.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And Happy Halloween everyone!</span></div><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Talk to you soon!</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="mailto:meatlessman@yahoo.com">meatlessman@yahoo.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Man-Finally-Eats-his-Veggies-A-Meatless-Year-Blog/228505550587?ref=nf">Facebook A Man Finally Eats his Veggies Fan Page</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a black;="" color:="" href="http://www.blogger.com/%3C/span%3E%3Cspan%20style="> </a><a href="http://twitter.com/ManEatsVeggies" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/ManEatsVeggies</a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Meatless Man on Twitter</span><o:p style="color: white;"></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 78%;">All writing, videos and pictures copyright the author of this blog unless otherwise noted or, if really darn obvious.</span></i></b> </div><o:p></o:p> Meatless Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02206133283187398092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910172756267628503.post-47971408477382526172010-10-29T14:49:00.001-04:002010-10-29T14:49:47.461-04:00Why the updates have not been as frequent: The Final Chapter<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CJason%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><o:smarttagtype name="place" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><style>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><b><i>Day 362 </i></b><o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">If you are in </span><st1:place style="color: white;" w:st="on">Western Massachusetts</st1:place><span style="color: white;"> and are trying to get into the Halloween spirit then please come see </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=160816970596250" style="color: white;">this show I am in</a><span style="color: white;">!</span><span style="color: white;"> </span><span style="color: white;">Click on the images below for more details.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Talk to you soon!</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><a href="mailto:meatlessman@yahoo.com">meatlessman@yahoo.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Man-Finally-Eats-his-Veggies-A-Meatless-Year-Blog/228505550587?ref=nf">Facebook A Man Finally Eats his Veggies Fan Page</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><a black;="" color:="" href="http://www.blogger.com/%3C/span%3E%3Cspan%20style="> </a><a href="http://twitter.com/ManEatsVeggies" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/ManEatsVeggies</a></span><span style="color: black;"> <span style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Meatless Man on Twitter</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 78%;">All writing, videos and pictures copyright the author of this blog unless otherwise noted or, if really darn obvious.</span></i></b> </div>Meatless Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02206133283187398092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910172756267628503.post-32842500172352849612010-10-28T12:37:00.000-04:002010-10-28T12:37:25.083-04:00The Future of this blog<b><i>Day 361 </i></b><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">After, “<a href="http://ameatlessyear.blogspot.com/2010/10/final-week-begins.html%20">Will you stay veggie after your meatless year is up?</a>” the question I get asked most is “Will this blog continue after your first meatless year?”</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Yes. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Which is why the title of this blog has been modified from "A Man Finally Eats his Veggies: A Meatless Year" to just "A Man Finally Eats his Veggies".</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">To reflect this change, the new and shortened name is in the beautiful Ingrid dos Santos artwork on the blog’s masthead and has now been incorporated into the blog’s Twitter page as well:</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Speaking of the blog’s Twitter page, I have changed my screename on there as well. The new name is ManEatsVeggies and you can find the new location for the Twitter page by clicking <a href="http://twitter.com/ManEatsVeggies">here</a>.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So far, the blog has primarily focused on my veggie eating habits but it has also talked about the other things that we put in our bodies. Don’t be surprised if you see even more food topics in this blog that don’t necessarily focus on a meatless diet. After all, dropping meat alone does not guarantee a clean bill of health. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Talk to you soon!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:meatlessman@yahoo.com">meatlessman@yahoo.com</a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Man-Finally-Eats-his-Veggies-A-Meatless-Year-Blog/228505550587?ref=nf">Facebook A Man Finally Eats his Veggies Fan Page</a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://twitter.com/ManEatsVeggies">Meatless Man on Twitter</a></div><div style="color: white;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 78%;">All writing, videos and pictures copyright the author of this blog unless otherwise noted or, if really darn obvious.</span></i></b> </div>Meatless Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02206133283187398092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910172756267628503.post-38603063564849933002010-10-27T16:34:00.004-04:002010-10-27T16:37:07.123-04:00How should I celebrate one year of being meatless?<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CJason%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><style>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><b><i>Day 360 </i></b></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><div><o:p></o:p></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">How should I celebrate one year of being meatless on November 2<sup>nd</sup>? Any suggestions?<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It seems that something this important to me that has radically changed the way I look and feel should be commemorated somehow on the 2<sup>nd</sup> but how? <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I considered making my first skydive ever and videotaping it but that is something I really cannot afford right now so that is out.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And before anyone sarcastically suggests it (you know who you are) I am not going to celebrate with a hamburger, steak or anything that involves eating meat.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Any ideas? Let me know.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Talk to you soon!</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="mailto:meatlessman@yahoo.com">meatlessman@yahoo.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Man-Finally-Eats-his-Veggies-A-Meatless-Year-Blog/228505550587?ref=nf">Facebook A Man Finally Eats his Veggies Fan Page</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a black;="" color:="" href="http://www.blogger.com/%3C/span%3E%3Cspan%20style="> </a><a href="http://twitter.com/ManEatsVeggies" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/ManEatsVeggies</a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">", Meatless Man on Twitter</span><o:p style="color: white;"></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 78%;">All writing, videos and pictures copyright the author of this blog unless otherwise noted or, if really darn obvious.</span></i></b> </div><o:p></o:p> Meatless Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02206133283187398092noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910172756267628503.post-89493941949380019562010-10-26T15:49:00.000-04:002010-10-26T15:49:21.406-04:00The Final Week Begins<b><i>Day 359 </i></b><br />
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<div style="color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As of today I am one week shy of having been meatless for an entire year.</div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For 51 weeks I have eaten no beef, pork, poultry, seafood/fish or whole eggs. </div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It went by so fast, didn’t it? I am still in disbelief that I stayed meatless for almost a whole calendar year, met my weight loss goal, gained the energy of my youth back and overall changed my health for the better.</div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Many of you have asked if I am going to quit vegetarianism after November 2nd. My answer to that question has been, “If you were doing something that made you feel great and was good for you with no side effects, why would would you stop doing it?” I will admit, this was initially going to be just a year long experiment, but I just don’t feel the urge to go back to the lethargic way things were before November 2nd of last year. </div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">However, I am wrestling with the idea of going back to eating whole eggs and seafood. One of the factors keeping me from consuming the latter again is the pollutants that some experts claim to have contaminated the fish and seafood—before <b><u>or</u></b> after the Gulf oil spill earlier this year.</div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course, there is also the matter of how sea life and egg laying hens are treated. There are more humane ways to get eggs so maybe I will only consume them from free range chickens. </div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Speaking of poultry, the smell of turkey on Thanksgiving and Christmas is tempting. These are the only times I would ever be tempted to partake in poultry. But should I? Starting my meatless year in November wasn’t an arbitrary decision. I started that particular month as to get the hardest part of being meatless, the holidays, out of the way within the first two months. </div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There is the social aspect to consider as well. Over the course of the past year I have also received funny looks from people when I ask if a dish is meat free—so imagine how it would look to others refusing turkey on the holiday in front of a friend’s family or my own. If I just eat turkey on the holidays would it make me a bad person? Would it make me a hypocrite? </div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What do you all think?</div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One week to go.</div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Talk to you soon!</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:meatlessman@yahoo.com">meatlessman@yahoo.com</a></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Man-Finally-Eats-his-Veggies-A-Meatless-Year-Blog/228505550587?ref=nf">Facebook A Man Finally Eats his Veggies Fan Page</a></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://twitter.com/ManEatsVeggies">Meatless Man on Twitter</a></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 78%;">All writing, videos and pictures copyright the author of this blog unless otherwise noted or, if really darn obvious.</span></i></b> </div>Meatless Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02206133283187398092noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910172756267628503.post-33809524090978771162010-10-25T18:01:00.001-04:002010-10-25T18:02:36.516-04:00Week of Sweets<b><i>Days 356 - 358 </i></b><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Where has my will power gone? Just look at this scale reading—look at it:</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I was just 150 the week before!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Excuses to skip the gym have been turning up like mad. It feels a few days on, then one week off. It is like some ADD that I have when it comes to working out, “Alright, the nautilus room—look, a squirrel!”</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;">Of course, these tempting treats could have been easily avoided during the course of this week:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwFaYkvT_fMXmS9jJ-xD4ZbAgKT3gNfe80Itg9ihRmhru5-L6TeVRqqy5BD1dNOGvUWi-bxp7jmfijJyyXxOsIdv7LW2tXh_IPExXbjxIYXeKRsG9PNzMMp1kUCxG8lbslEpe10ZuW7Sc/s1600/Choc+Canoli.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">According to <a href="http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/how-long-does-it-take-to-fall-out-of-shape-2277730/%20">this article</a> a workout break for a couple of weeks could help ones muscles relax, especially if they are usually good at keeping a regular workout schedule and have been pushing themselves.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>This week…</i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I am down around 150 lbs again. That is a weight I can live with. I think it is okay to fluctuate, just as long as I keep one eye on the scale and the other on my dinner plate. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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In Western Mass the next few weekends? Click on the picture below for something fun to check out while you are in the area:<br />
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</div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You may notice the blog masthead has gone through yet another change! Loyal blog reader and artist, Ingrid dos Santos, approached me with a new graphic for this blog:</span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ_ChxbbS1HMeX14-iSSJ9hqpYIUy9-0_2FhaQ420EQ-8xUH8ll_UEU_L-aVbfIAv3ayRC4oRlk9yHB1Yx0UIvwGRPXa33Dtu3pNNGlD9gXy7kGstJl5ZZ6nnaOg9quvMAFggtr8M3mKE/s1600/ManveggiebannerNEW.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ_ChxbbS1HMeX14-iSSJ9hqpYIUy9-0_2FhaQ420EQ-8xUH8ll_UEU_L-aVbfIAv3ayRC4oRlk9yHB1Yx0UIvwGRPXa33Dtu3pNNGlD9gXy7kGstJl5ZZ6nnaOg9quvMAFggtr8M3mKE/s320/ManveggiebannerNEW.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wow. How could one pass up this superb piece of art?</span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Want to see more from her?</span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You can check out her <a href="http://ingridsink.blogspot.com/">blog</a>: </span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://ingridsink.blogspot.com/"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH7mQK0XfAr83sFpGk7cS47vzmt-EmwbpSHbz8blpvL0TEZX9hvqvJWrE0JKaLH0jEQTGDDUFxwS47i5PExrHjlwE0pJWmFGliPn6R14misqTultFMXqi1vE_Az8SPq4sxIcDA5irV1Xc/s320/Ingrid+Blog.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And there is also her official <a href="http://www.ingrid-dossantos.com/">webpage</a>:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.ingrid-dossantos.com/"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhxlDIdp4lUinlFk4OcMbP893kajDHSBz3RtDRgl4TuRS2P08x7Dt1WjlLNjDnb9-4xA_auZfazDBdZ87daGmwGMBof2ha7OgwjCP-mKdqWU9hXeWGsk1ptNniIMn_4ZBgMIjmZl_A3V0/s320/IngridsWebpage.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tell her Jason sent you!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Talk to you soon!</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><a href="mailto:meatlessman@yahoo.com">meatlessman@yahoo.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Man-Finally-Eats-his-Veggies-A-Meatless-Year-Blog/228505550587?ref=nf">Facebook A Man Finally Eats his Veggies Fan Page</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://twitter.com/MeatlessYear">Meatless Man on Twitter</a><o:p style="color: white;"></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 78%;">All writing, videos and pictures copyright the author of this blog unless otherwise noted or, if really darn obvious.</span></i></b> </div><o:p></o:p> Meatless Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02206133283187398092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910172756267628503.post-2157195227541035692010-10-13T16:52:00.002-04:002010-10-13T16:56:59.708-04:00Things That Don't Surprise Me (and Shouldn't Surprise you Either): Happy Meals Don't Decompose!<b><i>Day 345 & 346 </i></b><br />
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This is just gross:<br />
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</style><b><b><i>Days 339 - 344 </i></b><o:p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></o:p></b><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The wonderful Shana Moore writes a blog named 100 Pounds and Counting that you can check out <a href="http://www.100lbsandcounting.com/">here</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p>It is the story of how Shana one day discovered she didn’t like being 250 lbs any more and decided to do something about it. It is very inspiring and I will be talking more about her blog in the coming days. Please click on the link above in the meanwhile and give it a good read. It is very inspiring.<o:p></o:p></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From time to time, Shana features other weight loss stories in her blog in a segment she calls Motivational Mondays. This Monday she has chosen to profile me and I am very honored! You can check out my piece by clicking on the image below. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Talk to you soon!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="mailto:meatlessman@yahoo.com">meatlessman@yahoo.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Man-Finally-Eats-his-Veggies-A-Meatless-Year-Blog/228505550587?ref=nf">Facebook A Man Finally Eats his Veggies Fan Page</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://twitter.com/MeatlessYear">Meatless Man on Twitter</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i>All writing, videos and pictures copyright the author of this blog unless otherwise noted or, if really darn obvious.</i></b> </span></div><o:p></o:p> Meatless Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02206133283187398092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910172756267628503.post-27756757048652905602010-10-05T23:23:00.006-04:002010-10-11T12:19:20.090-04:00Flocked<b><i>Days 337 & 338 </i></b><br />
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</div><div style="color: white;">The following videos are from 2007. They are a sitcom pilot I acted in and I am heavier looking in it. I may have been a little around 212 lbs at that time. Well anyway, during the filming of the diner scene found in part one below, Pete Grosz and I are having breakfast. In between takes we discussed what we liked to eat for breakfast which you can read about in more detail <a href="http://ameatlessyear.blogspot.com/2010/03/some-of-my-old-unhealthy-eating-habits.html%20%20%20">here</a>.</div><div style="color: white;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: white;">In this last part watch for the scene where I am photocopying (no, it is not that kind of a video!) and you will notice I am thinner than in the previous scenes. This is due in part to them filming a few weeks after principle photography had ended. By that time I had started a <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://ameatlessyear.blogspot.com/2010/03/weight-update-flashback.html">weight loss competition at work</a>. </div><div style="color: white;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: white;">Needless to say, I quickly put all the weight that I lost back then on again. Right now I have managed to keep my current weight loss off for about two months. That is something huge for me. Never before have I managed maintaining such a loss of weight for such an extended period of time. Eating healthier and exercising pays off.</div><div style="color: white;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white;">Talk to you soon!</div><div style="color: white;"><a href="mailto:meatlessman@yahoo.com">meatlessman@yahoo.com</a></div><div style="color: white;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Man-Finally-Eats-his-Veggies-A-Meatless-Year-Blog/228505550587?ref=nf">Facebook A Man Finally Eats his Veggies Fan Page</a></div><div style="color: white;"><a href="http://twitter.com/MeatlessYear">Meatless Man on Twitter</a></div><b><i><span style="font-size: 78%;"><span style="color: white;">All writing, videos and pictures copyright the author of this bl</span>og unless otherwise noted or, if really darn obvious.</span></i></b>Meatless Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02206133283187398092noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910172756267628503.post-26582323012979665782010-10-03T11:53:00.002-04:002010-10-11T12:18:28.790-04:00New Look, Same Goal.<b><i>Day 336 </i></b><br />
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This is the bland way my blog used to look:<br />
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Here is the blog you are looking at now in screenshot form for comparison:<br />
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You will notice that it looks much sleeker in design now. It is something that I had been meaning to do for a bit now and I really apologize for not doing it sooner.<br />
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New look but same mission to inform the internet surfing public about better eating choices. Stick around!<br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As of today, I have been meatless for 11 months!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">- I have not had beef, pork, poultry, seafood/fish or eggs in their whole form in almost a year!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">- I am presently at a very healthy 150 lbs, a 62 pound difference from the 212 lbs I more or less weighed around this time last year.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">- I have increased energy, stamina and flexibility. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">- Better digestion.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">- Overall I feel fantastic!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thank you all for all the kind words of support. Keep reading as there is still one more month to go!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And after that? Who knows? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talk to you soon!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="mailto:meatlessman@yahoo.com">meatlessman@yahoo.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Man-Finally-Eats-his-Veggies-A-Meatless-Year-Blog/228505550587?ref=nf">Facebook A Man Finally Eats his Veggies Fan Page</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://twitter.com/MeatlessYear">Meatless Man on Twitter</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>All writing, videos and pictures copyright the author of this blog unless otherwise noted or, if really darn obvious.</i></b></span> </div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>Meatless Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02206133283187398092noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910172756267628503.post-67539926439917486662010-10-01T00:22:00.002-04:002010-10-03T11:50:17.197-04:00Happy World Vegetarian Day!<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CJason%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><style>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><b><i>Day 334</i></b></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Talk to you soon!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><a href="mailto:meatlessman@yahoo.com">meatlessman@yahoo.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Man-Finally-Eats-his-Veggies-A-Meatless-Year-Blog/228505550587?ref=nf">Facebook A Man Finally Eats his Veggies Fan Page</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://twitter.com/MeatlessYear">Meatless Man on Twitter</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 78%;">All writing, videos and pictures copyright the author of this blog unless otherwise noted or, if really darn obvious.</span></i></b></span> </div>Meatless Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02206133283187398092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910172756267628503.post-76874692195037562152010-09-30T19:41:00.002-04:002010-10-03T11:49:27.511-04:00How YOU can celebrate World Vegetarian Day.<span style="font-size: x-small;"></span><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Tomorrow, October 1st, is World Vegetarian Day and I have pondered just how exactly will I celebrate it. What exactly do I do to show how exactly I feel about having gone veggie?</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I have found the answer my friends. For the duration of World Vegetarian Day I will post the following image I made in Photoshop as my Facebook profile pic and I encourage all other veggies and veggie supporters to copy the image below and do the same:</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Have a Happy World Vegetarian Day bitches!</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Talk to you soon!</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="mailto:meatlessman@yahoo.com">meatlessman@yahoo.com</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Man-Finally-Eats-his-Veggies-A-Meatless-Year-Blog/228505550587?ref=nf">Facebook A Man Finally Eats his Veggies Fan Page</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://twitter.com/MeatlessYear">Meatless Man on Twitter</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i>All writing, videos and pictures copyright the author of this blog unless otherwise noted or, if really darn obvious.</i></b></span> </div>Meatless Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02206133283187398092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910172756267628503.post-37528892504813760162010-09-27T22:11:00.000-04:002010-09-27T22:11:06.671-04:00Ben & Jerry’s is no longer all-natural…was it ever really?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpPHw3qWSh6yZFGj2Xh5KPwUaz-8Ya5GQfh9WvHDeYBc1QmU8I9lQCRn1vntN1mU5sHeYxtKZblBN8zwA5VrnA_wYL1lEc6Bitde7I5DI0a4Z8NXAKouMTJ32ExCzkZbpEFnZ4kd9dvN0/s1600/Ben+and+Jerry%27s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">Days 329 & 330 </span> </i></b></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As longtime readers of this blog know, <a href="http://ameatlessyear.blogspot.com/2010/03/some-of-my-old-unhealthy-eating-habits.html">one of my old unhealthy eating habits was devouring a pint of Ben & Jerry's in one sitting</a>.</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Okay, I confess I have done it once—maybe twice since I wrote the above mentioned entry. It is my favorite hard serve ice cream and I think as long as I don’t do it every week or even every month it is okay. </div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39388749/ns/business-personal_finance/%20">This breaking news changes nothing.</a></div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Oh Ben & Jerry’s, I know you are no good for me but I need you upon my lips and in my mouth every now and then just to feel alive.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="background-color: black; color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Talk to you soon!</div><div style="background-color: black; color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:meatlessman@yahoo.com">meatlessman@yahoo.com</a></div><div style="background-color: black; color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Man-Finally-Eats-his-Veggies-A-Meatless-Year-Blog/228505550587?ref=nf">Facebook A Man Finally Eats his Veggies Fan Page</a></div><div style="background-color: black; color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://twitter.com/MeatlessYear">Meatless Man on Twitter</a></div><div style="color: white;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 78%;">All writing, videos and pictures copyright the author of this blog unless otherwise noted or, if really darn obvious.</span></i></b> </div>Meatless Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02206133283187398092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910172756267628503.post-2677496016655191642010-09-25T22:07:00.004-04:002010-09-25T22:13:00.772-04:00Haven’t updated much this week because...<strong><em>Day 328 </em></strong><br /><br />I have been busy with a new temp job and in rehearsals for this:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://www.showtix4u.com/index.php?submit=Search+for+Events&begin=1542968&current_client=071211090120227"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 310px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB7ciLlhego71u2-87l59YCMRNC9LKxS6nilcysV-jAer9PYcDiPr0elsuEm6xFuFKAR0BVRIjjDqs7r3HE5F9Oy3CTqYfce5MQTFrVQn6k7UGiZCDOIP8mitl67NSl8HWkBi96HpfMXY/s400/JandHFlyer.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521038956381848994" border="0" /></a><br />Check out the Facebook event page for <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=160816970596250&ref=ts">here</a>.<br /><br />The OTHER Facebook event page for it <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=154253394596643">here</a>.<br /><br />And you can buy tickets directly <a href="https://www.showtix4u.com/index.php?submit=Search+for+Events&begin=1542968&current_client=071211090120227">here</a>.<br /><br />See you in October.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://www.showtix4u.com/index.php?submit=Search+for+Events&begin=1542968&current_client=071211090120227"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 194px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpjMPkfcRPDLl4hWQjuqzMPzw3LwY8faToeqGCJwSkuNmOYlRpAIKMlkxQkyOodEcgYZ_PFr_Lnuf5UZYiV7Iko955eMTTfyxkhC9_RjL9ttjZrtaj6mK4Z4Y1167fAQn80CV8aoVQJqw/s400/HypeClipArt.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521038757198886402" border="0" /></a><br />Talk to you soon!<br /><a href="mailto:meatlessman@yahoo.com">meatlessman@yahoo.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Man-Finally-Eats-his-Veggies-A-Meatless-Year-Blog/228505550587?ref=nf">Facebook A Man Finally Eats his Veggies Fan Page</a><br /><a href="http://twitter.com/MeatlessYear">Meatless Man on Twitter</a><br /><strong><em><span style="font-size:78%;">All writing, videos and pictures copyright the author of this blog unless otherwise noted or, if really darn obvious.</span></em></strong> <p></p>Meatless Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02206133283187398092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910172756267628503.post-72215981756637645552010-09-24T21:01:00.001-04:002010-09-24T21:05:53.297-04:00Cheers to Kirstie Alley?<strong><em>Days 321 - 327 </em></strong><br /><br />Remember when I voiced my doubts over diets and weight loss programs in this <a href="http://ameatlessyear.blogspot.com/2010/06/george-costanza-diet-guru.html">entry</a> and then in this <a href="http://ameatlessyear.blogspot.com/2010/08/my-least-favorite-4-letter-word.html">one</a>?<br /><br />Yesterday, the news broke that Kirstie Alley has recently lost 50 lbs. Congrats Ms. Alley, that is quite an accomplishment!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtXGTCzgunmNxm6MTVSFxY_I49rzCtjHzvTzyAHZMlvInLuQPivJNb9-47A4DbZtz-8V-UBDF6g7lD9PeaJYCw7pip0SwQU6ph6ezKF-Dov1WVNiD9y1h9QBP6b8Qg_wmgs-iHcwtfi_M/s1600/Kirstie+Alley.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 232px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtXGTCzgunmNxm6MTVSFxY_I49rzCtjHzvTzyAHZMlvInLuQPivJNb9-47A4DbZtz-8V-UBDF6g7lD9PeaJYCw7pip0SwQU6ph6ezKF-Dov1WVNiD9y1h9QBP6b8Qg_wmgs-iHcwtfi_M/s400/Kirstie+Alley.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520650378802675570" border="0" /></a><br />Wait.<br /><br />Didn’t you slim down before? How did you do that again?<br /><br />Oh yeeeaaaaaah:<br /><br /><a href="http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39330916/ns/today-entertainment/">"Last year, Alley, 59, confessed that she had ballooned back up to 230 pounds — after initially losing 75-pounds via Jenny Craig and announcing it on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in 2006."</a><br /><br />Ms. Alley, I know it is hard to lose weight and keep it off, but I also know the best results I have ever reached for weight loss was from exercise and eating healthier—more vegetables, no meat, less sugar and white flour, as well as reducing my processed food intake. I am not saying you have to drop meat from your diet but please, see a dietician or nutritionist, one that doesn’t work for or endorse a weight loss center because it seems those places didn’t work for you. I am not saying weight loss centers don’t work at all, but you can’t depend on one forever to keep the weight off. That comes from you and nobody else.<br /><br />So how long until the “Organic Liaison" line of foods fails you as well and you gain some or all of that weight back?<br /><br />Not trying to be mean, just playing devil’s advocate.<br /><br />Once again, congrats on the weight loss, Ms. Alley.<br /><br />Talk to you soon!<br /><a href="mailto:meatlessman@yahoo.com">meatlessman@yahoo.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Man-Finally-Eats-his-Veggies-A-Meatless-Year-Blog/228505550587?ref=nf">Facebook A Man Finally Eats his Veggies Fan Page</a><br /><a href="http://twitter.com/MeatlessYear">Meatless Man on Twitter</a><br /><strong><em><span style="font-size:78%;">All writing, videos and pictures copyright the author of this blog unless otherwise noted or, if really darn obvious.</span></em></strong> <p></p>Meatless Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02206133283187398092noreply@blogger.com2