Tag Archives: Diet

The most important person in your life

The most important person in your life should be you. Because without you, your life doesn’t exist. So you should always be sure to look after number one. Help others, yes, but realize that it’s okay to be selfish every now and then, to take time for your own health and well-being. It’s perfectly fine [...]

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Rapid vegan muscle building: Update #1

I’m now 1.5 weeks into my 6-week experiment to see if I can add 20lbs of muscle on a vegan diet, while doing just one hour of exercise per week. Here’s a quick report on how the diet and workouts have been going. Diet I made it through the first week okay. Eating 5,000 calories [...]

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4 Selfish Reasons to go Vegan

Forget saving the planet. Forget compassion for animals. The truth is, none of that was my motivation behind trying a plant-based diet in the first place. No, I was completely self-absorbed. I wanted to know what a plant-based diet could do for ME. Screw the rest of the world. So I gave vegetarian a try [...]

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New challenge: Put on 20 lbs of muscle, in six weeks, on a vegan diet, doing just one hour of exercise per week

For over a year now I’ve had this idea in the back of my mind, ever since I read how Tim Ferriss put on 32 lbs of muscle in 28 days. I wondered if I could do similar on a vegan diet. I’m about to find out. Let me break down the plan: 20 lbs [...]

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The logic of a plant-based diet, as per Star Trek

There’s a bar in the French Quarter that I’m quite fond of called Flanagan’s. It’s low key, away from the madness of Bourbon, often pretty quiet on a Friday or a Saturday night. The random people who hang out there are usually up for random conversations, and the bartenders are always laid back, cool to [...]

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